In 1790, it was not a given that the young United States, bruised and healing from its struggle for independence and populated by fewer than 4 million inhabitants, would even survive, much less flourish.
The first book in this series, Out Where the West.
But the great adventure that came next--the exploration and settlement of the lands lying to the West and stretching to the Pacific Ocean--would build a nation Where only a patchwork of eastern seaboard colonies had existed before.
In 1790, it was not a given that the young United States, bruised and healing from its struggle for independence and populated by fewer than 4 million inhabitants, would even survive, much less flourish