This landmark book chronicles and celebrates a prodigious historical and cultural legacy, and directs readers to more than four dozen parks from Maine to Alaska, where this aspect of our American heritage is preserved and interpreted. Illustrated with nearly 100 black and white contemporary and historical images, and a 16-page color portfolio.

Presents a comprehensive Texas almanac that contains color maps, census records, and information on over thirty Spanish mission sites, the culture and environment of the state, holidays and county profiles, and much more.