The wilderness rolled away to north and to south, and also it rolled away to east and to west, an unbroken sweep of dark, glossy green. Straight up stood the mighty trunks, but the leaves rippled and sang low when a gentle south wind breathed upon them. It was the forest as God made it, the magnificent valley of North America, upon whose edges the white man had just begun to nibble.
Once again Joseph Altsheler comes out with a masterpiece on how the Revolutionary War affected the settlers in the west. The five woodsmen, Henry Ware, Solomon Hyde, Paul Cotter, Tom Ross, and Jim Hart, jorney down the Mississippi to New Orleans, to interview the Spanish Governor-General, who they hear is being urged to join the Indians in an attack on Kentucky.
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