The Forest Runners

Joseph Alexander Altsheler was an American newspaper reporter, foreign correspondent, editor and author of popular historical fiction for young readers. 

“The Forest Runners, a story of the great war trail in early Kentucky” is the one of eight stories, entered in The Young Trailers Series and published in 1908. The story for young readers dealing with frontier life and adventures with the Natives in time of the American Revolutionary War. The story is complete in itself, full of excitement, and historically accurate, so you have the unique opportunity to introduce the most dramatic events of the world history to your children.