TFB is one of today's premier experts in the historiography of the "Dark and Bloody Ground" and it's many fascinating occupants. His scholarship comes through in every page and places you at the center of the collision of cultures that occurred during the 2nd half of the 18th century on the trans-appalachian frontier. His work in "The Hunters of Kentucky" pays honor to the work of his predecessors, like Lyman C Draper, to keep the stories of this time and place alive in our memories.