A fictionalized account describing how John Chapman was joined in the western Pennsyl- vania wilderness by his half brother, Nathaniel, who was unprepared for John's spartan lifestyle and unusual ways.
Describes the lives of the beaver trappers who were the first explorers of the American West beyond the Rocky mountains, and some of the tall tales that made them legends.
With the help of what he learned from a Delaware Indian boy and an accommodating mother raccoon, young Daniel Boone escapes danger when a bear steals his coonskin cap.