Adventure on the Wilderness Road, 1775

By Laurie Lawlor

Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life, Indians of North America, Diaries, Wilderness Road, Fiction, Sisters, Juvenile fiction, History

Description: In 1775, while traveling with her family from Virginia to Kentucky, and joined by another family along the way, eleven-year-old Elizabeth reads Gulliver's Travels to the children and keeps a journal of their adventures, which include a runaway slave, encounters with Cherokees, and a near-fatal accident.