The author of this series of stories for children has endeavored simply to show why and how the descendants of the early colonists fought their way through the wilderness in search of new homes. The several narratives deal with the struggles of those adventurous people who forced their way westward, ever westward, whether in hope of gain or in answer to the call of 'the wild, and who, in so doing, wrote their names with their blood across this country of ours from the Ohio to the Columbia.