Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by Thomas Moran, Sanford Robinson Gifford and George Inness. The opening of Canada from Cartier to the fur brigades and the overland parties that reached the Pacific, told in one volume by a man who had led expeditions himself. Johnston illustrated his own books and had an administrator's eye for what a river crossing actually costs. This edition adds 54 bound plates of painting from 1830 to 1903, among them Bierstadt, Church, Moran and Remington.