Honor Bright, a modest English Quaker, moves to Ohio in 1850--only to find herself alienated and alone in a strange land. Sick from the moment she leaves England, and fleeing personal disappointment, she is forced by family tragedy to rely on strangers in a harsh, unfamiliar landscape. Nineteenth-century America is practical, precarious, and unsentimental, and scarred by the continuing injustice of slavery. In her new home Honor discovers that principles...

"A vivid panorama of the transitional years when Ohio evolved from a raw frontier territory to an established province of an ever-expanding nation." —Booklist
Nowhere on the American frontier was the clash of cultures more violent than on the Ohio frontier. First settled by migrating Native Americans about 1720 and later by white settlers, Ohio became the crucible which set indigenous and military policy throughout the region....

"Big Son is a spirit of the times--the times being 1837. Behind his broad shoulders, shiny hair, and church-organ laugh, Big Son practically made Ohio City all by himself. The feats of this proto-superhero have earned him wonder and whiskey toasts but very little in the way of fortune. And without money, Big cannot become an honest husband to his beloved Cloe (who may or may not want to be his wife, honestly). In pursuit of a steady wage, our hero...

The author, Mann Butler, was one of Kentucky's most prominent early educators. He is best remembered as being the first president of what would become the University of Louisville and he headed the first public school in Kentucky. The author intended to chronicle the history of the area from the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748, to the Peace of Ghent, as ratified by the U.S. in 1815, a plan unfortunately thwarted by his untimely death in 1855. Therefore,...