Not to be confused with the famed twentieth-century British prime minister, American author Winston Churchill took as his fictional palette the history of his native country. Following in the tradition of Churchill's other sweeping historical epics,...
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Not to be confused with the famed twentieth-century British prime minister, American author Winston Churchill took as his fictional palette the history of his native country. Following in the tradition of Churchill's other sweeping historical epics, The Crossing is a thrilling account of the settlement of the Western United States, with a particular focus on the rough-and-tumble early years of the territory that would later become Kentucky
Title; Contents; BOOK I - THE BORDERLAND; Chapter I - The Blue Wall; Chapter II - Wars and Rumors of Wars; Chapter III - Charlestown; Chapter IV - Temple Bow; Chapter V - Cram's Hell; Chapter VI - Man Proposes, but God Disposes; Chapter VII - In Sight of the Blue Wall Once More; Chapter VIII - The Nollichucky Trace; Chapter IX - On the Wilderness Trail; Chapter X - Harrodstown; Chapter XI - Fragmentary; Chapter XII - The Campaign Begins; Chapter XIII - Kaskaskia; Chapter XIV - How the Kaskaskeians Were Made Citizens; Chapter XV - Days of Trial; Chapter XVI - Davy Goes to Cahokia
Chapter XVII - The SacrificeChapter XVIII - "An' Ye Had Been Where I Had Been"; Chapter XIX - The Hair Buyer Trapped; Chapter XX - The Campaign Ends; BOOK II - FLOTSAM AND JETSAM; Chapter I - In the Cabin; Chapter II - "The Beggars Are Come to Town"; Chapter III - We Go to Danville; Chapter IV - I Cross the Mountains Once More; Chapter V - I Meet an Old Bedfellow; Chapter VI - The Widow Brown's; Chapter VII - I Meet a Hero; Chapter VIII - To St. Louis; Chapter IX - "Cherchez la Femme"; Chapter X - The Keel Boat; Chapter XI - The Strange City; Chapter XII - Les Iles
Chapter XIII - Monsieur Auguste EntrappedChapter XIV - Retribution; BOOK III - LOUISIANA; Chapter I - The Rights of Man; Chapter II - The House Above the Falls; Chapter III - Louisville Celebrates; Chapter IV - Of a Sudden Resolution; Chapter V - The House of the Honeycombed Tiles; Chapter VI - Madame la Vicomtesse; Chapter VII - The Disposal of the Sieur de St. Gre; Chapter VIII - At Lamarque's; Chapter IX - Monsieur Le Baron; Chapter X - The Scourge; Chapter XI - "In the Midst of Life"; Chapter XII - Visions, and an Awakening; Chapter XIII - A Mystery
Chapter XIV - "To Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores"Chapter XV - An Episode in the Life of a Man; Afterword; Endnotes;
