The Mitchell County, North Carolina Historical Society presents the story of a ragtag group of backwoodsmen from North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia who, after threats made to their homes and livelihood by British Major Patrick Ferguson and his army, took up the challenge and pursued Ferguson, trapping him and his army atop Kings Mountain in South Carolina. Footsteps of Freedom celebrates these backwoodsmen and their achievement which Thomas Jefferson declared was the turning point in the American Revolution.