Announcing the latest addition to the Catan Histories line, Settlers of America: Trails to Rails! This new game combines the two strongest categories of the Mayfair Games product line, train games and Catan games, to create the first ever Catan train gaming experience! Look for this exciting new Catan and Mayfair Games title to hit stores this summer in June 2010!

The 19th Century has arrived and Americans are heading west to make their fortune. Wagon trains are forming up and heading out to settle new lands and build new cities. These new cities will need railroad lines to bring in new people and necessary goods.

In 1996, a little over a year after the sensational success of the board game "The Settlers of Catan," the "Catan Card Game" (for 2 players) was published. Originally, the game was designed as an answer to the request of many players who also wanted to be able to enjoy the Settlers of Catan as a 2-player game. Soon, however, the game developed a life of its own: expansions were added that led the Card Game further and further away from the Catan Basic Game, made it more complex, and brought it thematically closer to - and, in part, even beyond - Cities & Knights.

For the fans of the complex Card Game, this was great - but newcomers who, having the background of the Board Game, now also wanted to learn the Card Game had a hard time getting started.

For Klaus Teuber, this was reason enough to completely revise the Card Game, right before its 15th anniversary.