Describes the largest Allied bombing campaign of World War II, an extremely risky mission which took place during February 1944, wresting the skies from the Luftwaffe and changing the course of the war.

Bladen Cole is getting a handsome sum of money from Isham Ransdell, the owner of the Gallatin City Bank, for the men who killed Ransdell's associates. The banker wants the Porter boys dead or alive--preferably dead. Cole questions the motives of his new client, the only rich man in the city somehow left unscathed. The manhunt goes smoothly enough until he finds himself between two rival Blackfoot bands. Forced to take sides, Cole is led straight to...

Collection of early photographs with text chronicling the opening of the American West, looking at the legends and the people associated with the gold rush, transcontinental railroad, and the cowboy way of life.

"Details how Native American culture evolved, the artifacts produced on the continent and the ways they were made, and the techniques of decoration and embellishment that utilized a variety of disparate natural commodities that depended on geographical necessity and abundance"--Jacket flap.