Describes the life of the pioneers who settled the forest lands lying between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River between 1790 and 1840.
Tells the life story of eighteenth-century American general George Rogers Clark, describing his youth in Virginia and Kentucky and his defense of the Northwest Territory during the Revolutionary War.
Describes the discovery and exploration of the Great Lakes, the founding of New France by Samuel de Champlain, Native Americans, missions, forts, and trading posts, and much more.
Follows the campaigns of Major George Rogers Clark whose small army of Virginians captured several frontier forts for the colonists during the Revolution.