Traces the boyhood years of the celebrated frontiersman who, as a Quaker in Pennsylvania, learned the skills which would make him the leader in opening up the Wilderness Road to Kentucky.
Surveys the daily life of pioneer families in the American West, describing their travel, homes, clothing, food and drink, health, education, religion, recreation, and relationships with each other.
Discusses the reasons people had for going to live in newly-discovered or newly-settled lands, as the American West of the nineteenth century, the hardships they faced, and their influence on history.
