What was life like for the pioneers who braved the journey across a wilderness and the Native Americans who were confronted by the newcomers? Meet the cowboys who lived their hard, lonely life driving cattle across vast distances, and the outlaws who found it easier to live by their guns than by more honest means. The atmosphere of the Wild West comes alive, with real-life accounts, photographs from the times, and images from the movies. Find out what kind of people went to the West, how they travelled, where they lived and how they survived. There are 10 practical projects to make and do, including cooking a cowboy meal and making Native American-style jewellery, to give you first-hand experience of this time of excitement and upheaval. -- 10 step-by-step projects inspired by the Wild West -- Over 200 colour illustrations bring the past vividly alive -- See right inside a settler's wagon as it rolls across the prairie