This unique coffe table hardcover book shares stories of history, courage, love and devotion witnessed by the silent sentinels: America's Famous and Historic Trees.

In chapter after chapter, Jeff Meyer tells the history of seventeen trees, from 1600's Indian Marker Pecan to Thoreau's Walden Woods Red Maple, the 1971 Moon Sycamore to John F. Kennedy's Post Oak and Amelia Earhart's Sugar Maple. This exciting book will provide hours of intrigue, mystery and human experiences... the sum total of living history as told by our silent witnesses, the historic trees all around us.