Her Frontiers of America

Seven stories of real people who used wagon wheels to thrust civilization farther and farther across this continent.

Relates the adventures of six men including George Washington and Daniel Boone, whose explorations of the Appalachian Mountain area during the 17th and 18th centuries opened up the way west.

Presents the experiences of a child who became a man helping his father on their Iowa homestead and of a young man who literally carved out a home for his family on the Kansas prairie.

Describes the frenzied rush to California following the discovery of gold at Sutter's Fort in 1848.

Highlights the lives of four cowboys: Charlie Goodnight, James Cook, Tom Smith, and Will Rogers.

Describes the efforts of individuals to deliver mail from the time of the Revolutionary War to the Pony Express in the 1860's.

Discusses the discovery and exploration of the new world and much of the land that eventually became the United States.