The lure of the frontier, the urge to see what's out there, has been a defining national characteristic for more than 400 years. The new public television series America's Historic Trails with Tom Bodett traces the paths taken by succeeding waves of pioneers and settlers , visionaries and adventurers as they pushed across the continent to claim what became these United States. The brave and the lost, the ill-fated and the blessed, all left their marks on the American landscape and their stories on the American panorama. Now you can follow their paths. J. Kingston Pierce is a former editor of Pacific Northwest and Washington magazines, and currently an editor of Seattle and San Francisco Focus magazines.
Pierce lives in Seattle, Washington.
The End of the Road . Now his new television series has made his face as familiar as his voice. A resident of Homer, Alaska, he is the author of five books, most recently The Free Fall of Webster Cummings and The Big Garage on Clear Street , as well as 15 audiobooks.