Frank Carlson Library

The first in a trilogy set in the untamed colonial American wilderness. Joshua Colter was born of the wild frontier. As a young boy living with his family on the edges of civilization during the French and Indian War, he witnessed firsthand the bloodshed and brutality men were capable of-from the deception and depredations of whites like his own vile father to the merciless vengeance of the native tribes. Forced by cruel fate to set out on his own,...

When thirty-eight-year-old Nick Sullivan agrees to deliver hot chocolate to the new English professor at the local University, he has no way of knowing a simple good deed will forever change his life. After losing his wife and daughter in an automobile accident three years earlier, Nick believes his wounds are too deep to heal, so he withdraws to the safety of the East Tennessee mountains where he plans to live the rest of his life in solitude. There,...

Discusses colonial America's need for a route to the west, how the Wilderness Road developed, early explorers and settlements along its path, and the impact it had on western expansion.