Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Thomas Chambers and Fitz Henry Lane. A man rides from the Atlantic to the Pacific in 1876 — two hundred days, three thousand miles, an American centennial spent on horseback through towns that had just stopped being frontier. Willard Glazier had escaped from a Confederate prison and written about that too. The book is a survey of the United States at ground level in the year of Little Big Horn. Its 71 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.