The Trees is the story of an American family in the wilderness--a
family that "followed the woods as some families follow the sea." The
time is the end of the 18th century, the wilderness is the land west of
the Alleghenies and north of the Ohio River. But principally, The
Trees is the story of a girl named Sayward, eldest daughter of Worth
and Jary Luckett, raised in the forest far from the rest of humankind,
yet growing to realize that the way of the hunter must cede to the way
of the tiller of soil.