Publisher's Synopsis
"Around the year 1740, 22-year-old Archibald McCollogh left his home in Northern Ireland, boarded a ship and sailed to a new life in America. In these pages we follow the lives of seven generations of McCullohs, starting with Archibald's 4,000-mile life-long journey across the ocean, through devastating Indian attacks in Pennsylvania's frontier, down the Shenandoah Valley on the Great Wagon Road to his final home in Lexington, Kentucky. His son George works as a tanner and then a Ranger leading pack trains through the wilderness of western Pennsylvania. George's son John, a shoemaker, lives his entire life in a mountain valley called Little Cove. John's daughter Mary Ann lives a mysterious life in this valley, giving birth to two children out of wed-lock and eventually marrying a successful ironmaster who may yet prove to be the father of these children. Her son, Amos, becomes a successful farmer, lives through the turmoil of the confed
