An account of the lives and work of cowboys in the old West, lavishly illustrated with contemporary paintings and photographs.

The old West The Indians

An overview of U.S. soldier life, particularly detailing events of the Indian Wars, including Custer’s Last Stand. Accompanied by many period photographs. Chapter titles: 1) Battered cavaliers of the Indian wars 2) A mixed bag of Western forts 3) On the campaign trail 4) Sudden fury in a long, slow war 5) Future commanders of the West 6) Anatomy of a disaster

The old West The Trailblazers

The Railroaders six Chapters pack full of fantastic picures, illustrations and photographs. A great depiction od the early history of the U. S. and the development of the Railroads.

Embossed Leatherette Hardcover. The 49's of the 1854 painting, with their gold-washing pan and pack mule, are authentic to the last detail. The man with the pan is the artist himself, Alburtis del Orient Browere..

Reproductions of paintings, drawings, and photographs highlight a study of the men and women who opened and settled the American West

The Gunfighters

This wonderful leather-bound series from Time-Life takes the reader back to The Old West. With color illustrations and plenty of black and white photos. When President James Buchanan predicted in 1858 that the country would someday be bound east and west "by a chain of Americans which can never be broken," the links were already being forged by an army of entrepreneurs known as the Expressmen. Their freight and stagecoach services moved Eastern goods westward, Western ones eastward, and shuttled people, money and mail both ways. By 1860, Pony Express riders were relaying mail across more than half the country in the amazingly brief time of 10 days. Such labors, celebrated here and on the following pages in paintings by Western artists, were eventually to be supplanted by the railroads and the telegraph. But until then. the Expressmen persisted as though the fate of a fledgling civilization rested in their hands - and it did.

240 pages of excellent text, filled with great black & white and color photos and illustrations.