Lawrence Washington was the kind of big brother we could all use…wealthy and connected. These two delightful attributes were directly responsible for the rise of the first President of the United States: George Washington.

With the guidance of his half-brother, Lawrence, George’s life moves off the family farm and into the parlors of wealthy, politically-important men. His first adventures into the wilderness spark a life-long love of frontier exploration.

Long before white settlers moved west into the wilds, prehistoric people made their homes in the hills and valleys of the Ohio River Valley.

The tiny frontier rivertown of Newport meets its fate when Mary Parker gets off a flatboat and takes the town to court.