In this following romance the author has attempted to picture the life of theScotchIrish pioneers of the American frontier during the close of the 18thCentury. ... » 

In this following romance the author has attempted to picture the life of theScotchIrish pioneers of the American frontier during the close of the 18thCentury. The Colonial immigrants and their scions of this vigorous stock werethe chief pathfinders of our then Western border. They opened the wilderness tocivilization. They formed a barrier between the hostile indians and the growingsettlements of the seabord. «