Believing that he is responsible for his grandfather's death, Zane Guesswind takes off on a manic trip to his mother's grave where he plans to kill himself until he meets a strange cast of mystical characters who forever change his life.

Zanes Trace was the first government-sanctioned road in the Northwest Territory of the United States. Lost to the ultimate transgressions of modern progress, the location of Zane's Trace has been the subject of speculation for well more than a century. A variety of congressional and territorial acts, correspondence, land records, and pioneer recollections will establish the original route and landowners on that route presented as never done before. Sourced and Indexed including 90 + color images of original documents, plats, maps, and more.

History of Zane's Trace, a road starting at Wheeling, West Virginia and terminating at Maysville, Kentucky, passing through Ohio for nearly all its length; begun 1796/1797 under the direction of Col. Ebenezer Zane.

Zane's Trace was a trail blazed by Ebenezer Zane across Ohio from Wheeling, West Virginia to Maysville, Kentucky.

Recounts the arrival in Ohio of Iroquois-speaking Indians, the entry of white fur traders and missionaries, the slaughter and expulsion of the Indians, and settlement by New Englanders and others.