For some, settlement of the United States frontier can be reduced to a mere footnote.
Readers lean over her shoulder and watch as Louisa meshes fact and fiction so seamlessly, it is hard to se.
In this second installment of the Louisa saga that began with Louisa: The Wilds of Alabama, the heroine continues to pen her thoughts and feelings in her journal.
For Louisa Wilton, a young South Carolina debutante, a journey to the Alabama Territory in 1818 meant leaving behind civility and enlightenment.
For some, settlement of the United States frontier can be reduced to a mere footnote