Forty-six remarkable drawings reproduce the everyday dress of numerous American colonists of the 1770s: -- broom seller, farmer and his wife, wagoner, cooper, gentleman, barber, doctor, fisherman, carpenter, rural militiaman, wigmaker, and many others. Completely authentic, each illustration is accompanied by a caption and a brief description of the clothing. This delightful sourcebook for learning social history features 46 lively drawings -- 15 figures depicted in color on covers.

With your crayons and markers you'll have no trouble learning exactly what the soldiers from both North and South wore during the Civil War. Peter Copeland, historical artist, has drawn 21 Confederate uniforms and 24 Union uniforms for this coloring book. Here are the men from many different states and ranks (privates, volunteers, captains, a drummer boy, a mule driver, corporals, and others) as well as several historical figures -- General Robert E. Lee, 1863; Dr. Mary Walker, woman nurse, 1865; Major General Ulysses S. Grant, 1865; Admiral David Farragut, 1865. Each illustration is...

Noted artist Peter Copeland has captured all the drama and excitement of a fateful era in American history with 40 finely drawn black-and-white illustrations. Modestly priced and historically accurate, Story of the American Revolution Coloring Book contains scenes depicting the Boston Massacre, Paul Revere's ride, the Battle of Lexington, the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, the Battle of Bunker Hill, the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the execution of Nathan Hale, George Washington at the Delaware, Washington's farewell to his officers at Fraunces Tavern, and many more...

All the drama of shipwrecks and the excitement of discovering valuable treasures come vividly to life in 39 educational and entertaining illustrations. Ready-to-color scenes include divers gathering large jar-like containers on the site of an ancient Greek shipwreck; a Roman merchant ship in a storm; the remains of a ninth-century Viking ship; a German U-boat sinking an English freighter in 1917; the sunken "Titanic"; and historic diving suits, scuba-diving equipment, and more.

Congress established Yellowstone, the nation s first national park, in 1872. Today there are 50 national parks within the United States, encompassing an extraordinary diversity of terrain, animal life, and vegetation. From the dry deserts of Big Bend National Park in Texas to the icy wilderness of Gates of the Arctic National Park in Alaska, the wonderful natural heritage of America s national parks is yours to color and enjoy in this exciting coloring book. Among the other parks features are Grand Canyon, Everglades, Great Smoky Mountains, Mammoth Cave, Petrified Forest, and many more. In...

For thousands of years Native Americans have lived and worked in the hot, arid, and often inhospitable lands of the American Southwest. Now artist Peter F. Copeland re-creates the lives and cultures of those Indians in 40 detailed, carefully researched illustrations.
Included are ready-to-color depictions of Southwest Indians of the past and present -- from the 1840s to 1980s. Among the realistically portrayed figures are Apache chiefs of the late 1800s and an Apache woman making a traditional cradleboard; Navajo weavers, braves, and a medicine man in ceremonial dress; a Pueblo man playing...

Travel back in time to celebrate the culture and lifestyle of the North American woodlands Indians with this carefully researched and accurately rendered coloring book. Artist Pete Copeland has skillfully reconstructed 41 finely detailed scenes that span more than four centuries of tribal life.
Here are realistic views of hunters of the Pequot and Massachuset tribes in the early 1600s, a Passamaquoddy man spearing fish (1604), Virginia Algonquians meeting Europeans (1635), a French missionary among the Illinois Indians (1735), Ottawa warriors of the 17th and 19th centuries and Penobscot...

In this carefully researched and rendered coloring book, artist Peter Copeland dramatically portrays 42 outstanding Native Americans who livedduring the 17ththrough20th centuries. Depicted in historical settings or posing with tribal accoutrements are such noted leaders as Queen Allaquippa of the Delawares greeting a young George Washington; Gertrude Simmons Bonnin of the Yankton Sioux, a remarkable author, reformer, orator, and musician; Joseph Brant of the Mohawk, who led his people against the French and Americans in wars of the colonial era; Geronimo, the most famous of Apache chieftains;...

Between 1830 and 1860, thousands of Southern slaves escaped to the North and Canada by way of the "underground railroad." Neither underground nor a railroad, this secret network had "conductors" (persons who helped runaway slaves on their journey north) and "stations" (stopping places along the way).
Artist Peter Copeland portrays scenes from this grim period in American history in 45 dramatically rendered illustrations that include shocking views of "below decks" aboard a slave ship, slave pens, a family being seized by slave catchers, methods of punishing runaway slaves, an escaped slave...