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the story of America through great paintings
189 pages : illustrations, color plates, portraits ; 34 cm
The indian in his solitude / by N.C. Wyeth -- Landing of Leif Ericson in the New World in 1001 / by Edward Moran -- The landing of Columbus / by N.C. Wyeth -- The first sermon ashore / by J.L.G. Ferris -- The fall of New Amsterdam / by J.L.G. Ferris -- Landing of William Penn / by J.L.G. Ferris -- Death of Wolfe / by Benjamin West -- Old Bruton Church, Virginia, in the time of Lord Dunmore / by Alfred Wordsworth Thompson -- George Washington / by Charles Willson Peale -- At Concord Bridge / by N.C. Wyeth -- The Battle of Bunker Hill / by Howard Pyle -- Drafting the Declaration of Independence / by J.L.G. Ferris -- The Battle of Germantown / (detail) by Howard Pyle -- Von Steuben at Valley Forge / by Edwin A. Abbey -- The ship that sank in victory / (detail) by J.L.G. Ferris -- Daniel Boone escorting a band of pioneers into the western country / by George Caleb Bingham -- The surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown / by John Trumbull -- The first steamboat / by Clyde O. DeLand -- Thomas Jefferson / by Rembrandt Peale -- Bombardment of Tripoli / by N.C. Wyeth -- Tecumseh and Harrison at Vincennes / by Stanley M. Arthurs -- We have met the enemy and they are ours / (detail) by J.L.G. Ferris -- By the dawn's early light / by N.C. Wyeth -- The old House of Representatives / by Samuel F.B. Morse -- The trek of the mountain men / by W.H.D. Koerner -- The Battle of the Alamo / (detail) by F.C. Yohn -- The bay and harbor of New York / (detail) by Samuel B. Waugh -- News from Mexico / by Richard Caton Woodville -- The Battle of Chapultepec / by James Walker -- The jolly flatboatmen in port / by George Caleb Bingham -- Wagon train West / by W.H.D. Koerner -- Sunday morning in the mines / by Charles C. Nahl -- Fugitive slaves on the Underground Railway / by Charles T. Webber -- Lincoln raising the Flag at Independence Hall / by J.L.G. Ferris -- The Battle / by N.C. Wyeth -- The wounded drummer boy / by Eastman Johnson -- A rainy day in camp / (detail) by Winslow Homer -- The Battle of Nashville / by Howard Pyle -- Let us have peace / by J.L.G. Ferris -- Forging the shaft: a welding heat / by John Ferguson Weir -- The 9:45 a.m. accommodation, Stratford, Connecticut / by Edward L. Henry -- The stoic of the plains / by Charles M. Russell -- Stampeded by lightning / by Frederic Remington -- The country school / by Winslow Homer -- Thomas Edison's greatest invention / by Dean Cornwell -- The statue of liberty unveiling / by Edward Moran -- Charge of the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill / (detail) by Frederic Remington -- Allies' Day, May 1917 / by Childe Hassam -- The prisoner / (detail) by Harvey Dunn -- The cliff dwellers / by George Bellows -- Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 / (detail) by Commander Griffith Baily Coale -- Tank breakthrough at St. Lô / (detail) by Ogden Pleissner -- MacArthur Receiving the Japanese surrender / (detail) by C.C. Beall -- The Eagle has landed / by Cliff Young.
Compiled and narrated by Frederic Ray. Color reproductions by Edward Wilson. Introd. by Robert H. Fowler. Epilogue by Charles C. Sellers.