From the back cover: Kentucky was a land of deep lush woods and fresh clear waters. It was a hunter’s land, filled with buffalo and deer. it was a farmer’s land, covered with rich black soil. It was the red man’s land, primitive and wild. And for those pioneeers who dared to venture down the Ohio River, paddling slime birch bark canoes, it was a land of promise, magic and dreams. To some this wild frontier was a necessary refuge, a place to hid from the laws they had broken. For others it was a place where they could find homes and farms free from heavy taxes and regulations. But there were a few to whom the untouched wilderness was an end in itself—an exciting new way of life. And to this untamed territory came Simon Kenton, a strong, handsome young man who was running from his past—trying to forget a deed for which he was ashamed, a family for which he pined and most of all, the love of a beautiful woman he left behind…