Hough argues that the American frontier was won with four tools — the ax, the rifle, the boat and the horse — before telling the lives of three men who carried it forward: Daniel Boone across the Alleghenies, Davy Crockett toward the Rockies, and Kit Carson along the Santa Fé Trail to the Pacific. Frederic Remington supplied the illustrations.
Frontier history with a novelist’s energy, from the author of The Covered Wagon. Download the free EPUB.