It is the mid-18th century, and settlers embark for North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian Mountains to battle the Native American tribes whose lands they covet, the French, and even the mother country itself in a revolution destined to reverberate around the world. Telling a very different story of the founding of America, the authors of The Heart of Everything That Is profile Daniel Boone—not the coonskin cap-wearing caricature, but the flesh-and-blood frontiersman and war hero whose explorations would become the stuff of legend.