Images of the Old West

In this important book, Mort Kunstler, America's foremost historical artist, and Dee Brown, the highly acclaimed author of many best-sellers, including the renowned Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, have collaborated to create, in paintings and in words, images of the amazing events and the extraordinary cast of characters that together tell the dramatic story of the Old West - one of the world's greatest epics.With a highly readable text and more than eighty accurate, dramatically composed paintings - each one carefully researched - Kunstler and Brown have created a stunning, authoritative book in which paintings and text are integrally related.Mort Kunstler's magnificent paintings are the focus of this dramatic story for which Dee Brown's words provide the context. Together, words and pictures depict these historic moments with a strength and sensitivity that will surely deepen and enrich the reader's understanding of the most important and exciting undertakings in America's history.