A story of survival of a young boy left alone with only an old Indian friend, after the death of his father, in the vast forests of the western Tennessee frontier. After avenging his father's murder, with the help of his Indian friends, he began to build on what his father had began and led to establishment of a major trading post on the frontier. His friendship with George Rogers Clark led him join the fight to wrest control of the western territories from the British. British control of Canada blocked any expansion of the Colonies to the north and British control of the Western Territories would have blocked any hope of expansion to the west. This would have confined the new nation to a lonely struggle for survival along the eastern seacoast of a vast continent to an area occupied by the original thirteen colonies. From the loneliness of the vast forests in which he grew up to the turmoil of the American Revolution, the growth of a young boy paralleled the growth of a nation.