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Synopsis
This is not the British Winston Churchill. This Winston Churchill is an American novelist born in St Louis, Missouri in 1871. Both Churchills communicated with each other and because the American Churchill was the first to publish, Sir Winston Churchill published his works under the name Winston S Churchill. The American Churchill was an officer in the U S Navy. He also was a novelist, essayist, and poet. His novels written in a naturalist style often expressed his political views. In 1898 Churchill published his first novel The Celebrity. The Crossing is a rousing novel about the Kentucky frontier during Revolutionary days. Young David Ritchie is thrilled to play host to Daniel Boone, who spends a night with him and his father at their cabin in the North Carolina territory. Years later David will venture west with George Rogers Clark's wilderness campaign before taking a bride and settling on the very frontier that Daniel Boone explored.