Traces the way of life from early America and shares with those first settlers a reverence for wood, including a section on how to identify many of the most common trees in North America.
Illustrations and narratives describe the landscape of America during pioneer times, describing the canals, roads, tollgates, waterwheels, country inns, churches, road signs, and sleds and the people who ran them.
Alphabetically arranged entries for some two hundred objects from eighteenth and nineteenth century United States with the author/artist's own illustrative sketches. Includes an epilogue on the alphabet in early America.
