Antropologist Bill Brockton is called to a cave in East Tennesse when a thirty-year-old corpse, preserved into an almost perfect mummy, is discovered, and soon Bill finds himself pulled into a local feud and an ecological mystery that is baffling scientists.
Discusses the Wilderness Road, a trail providing a route from Tennessee to Kentucky in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Daniel Boone's role in its development, and life on the trail.
Presents resources for studying Cormac McCarthy's "All the Pretty Horses, " including a biographical sketch of the author, a list of characters, a summary and analysis of the novel, and a selection of critical views.