TAKE A JOURNEY into the heart of AMERICA'S WILDERNESS.

THOMAS MORAN had never ridden a horse or slept under the stars. But in the summer of 1871, he risked his life exploring a land full of boiling sulfur pools, steep cliffs, and scorched woods teeming with wild animals.

How did a painter from the city become one of the bravest explorers in America?

Tom painted pictures of other people's adventures for magazines, but he longed to head west to see the land called "the Yellowstone". So he joined a band of scientists on its way to this little-known land. Tom believed the paintings he created there could change American history. But first, he'd have to make it out alive.

With dramatic watercolors and vivid writing, One Thousand Tracings author Lita Judge tells the story of a man driven to pursue adventure in the wildest, most stunning landscape in America.

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