Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Thomas Moran, Sanford Robinson Gifford and George Inness. The mythologies of the American peoples compared - the culture heroes, the flood stories, the four directions - by the scholar who first argued they should be read as a single system rather than as curiosities. This edition is bound with 60 plates of paintings by George Catlin, Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Remington, among others, dating from 1830 to 1916.