Far back in the days when Daniel Boone was lighting Indians along the Wilderness Road and the Buffalo Trace, there was an Abraham Lincoln who sold his farm in Virginia and braved the dangers of Kentucky to follow Boone and build a home in the wilderness and establish new frontiers for America.

THE BUFFALO TRACE tells the thrilling and moving story of that first Abraham and how he and his gentle, gallant wife, Bathsheba, and their young family put aside luxury and safety to follow that ancient and perilous trail hewn by herds of migrating buffalo over the Cumberland Gap. It also tells about Daniel Boone and the Hanks family; of how Kentucky was tamed and Abraham was felled by an Indian bullet; how his son, Tom Lincoln, grew up and married Nancy Hanks; and finally about their small son, another Abraham Lincoln, who was destined to show his great heritage of courage and personal sacrifice for his loved country.

Ever since Virginia S. Eifert first traveled today's portions of the Buffalo Trace— almost precisely the route followed by three generations of Lincolns— she has felt the urge to tell its story and that of some of its intrepid travelers. This book is presented as fiction built around the scant but significant fabric of history.

Manning de V. Lee has made thirteen fine full-page wash drawings to illustrate THE BUFFALO TRACE.

From the dust jacket