New York: The Free Press, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - A striking book, illustrated throughout in both full color and black and white. "From Lewis and Clark to the massacre at Wounded Knee, Page Stegner re-creates an engrossing, gorgeous panorama of trappers, wagon trains, cattle drives, guns, gold rushes, outlaws, lawmen, settlers, buffalo hunters, railroads, cowboy hats, and barbed wire - the hard lives of the people and the items they carried that made a new culture, a new society, a new nation." Foreword by Larry McMurtry. Endnotes, selected bibliography, index. Slightly oversized square format. 400 pp. ISBN: 0-743232917.