"Who in the west has not heard of Wetzel, the daring borderer...the Boone of North-Western Virginia." -Wills de Hass, 1851 Lewis Wetzel came of age near the end of the Revolutionary War and was an important participant in the twenty-year war be tween the woodland Indian Nations and the settlers of western Pennsylvania, western Virginia, and Kentucky.
The novel, although classified as historical fiction, traces Wetzel\'s life over a period of more than twenty years, featuring events and the ric. "Who in the west has not heard of Wetzel, the daring borderer...the Boone of North-Western Virginia." -Wills de Hass, 1851 Lewis Wetzel came of age near the end of the Revolutionary War and was an important participant in the twenty-year war be tween the woodland Indian Nations and the settlers of western Pennsylvania, western Virginia, and Kentucky
