Download or read book Wilderness Plots written by Scott Russell Sanders and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1983 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty brief tales that chronicle the period of settlement of the Ohio Valley, roughly 1780 to 1850. Beginning with the discovery of the Ohio River by La Salle and ending with the Civil War, this region was the West, the exciting new frontier. Written with the power and compression of folklore, these tales bring to life the unmemorialized common folks who carried out this epic adventure.