This amazing story of vision, endurance, survival and triumph describes in a first-person perspective the evolution of Western North America. In 1840 Daniel W. Jones looked at a map of North America, seeing a vast area labeled, Unknown Region, this young boy vowed that when he was a man, he would not allow that area to remain unexplored. Orphaned at the age of 11, Daniel first traveled through the Southwest in the mid 1840s with enemies of the LDS people, the Missouri militia. He found appreciation and admiration for the inhabitants of the West, the Mexican People, the Ute Indian, and various Indian peoples. He acted as an emissary, an interpreter, and a negotiator between white settlers, various indigenous peoples, Spanish Mexicans, slay traders, government Indian agents, and leaders and prophets of the Latter-day Saints. He lived in the West from 1847 until 1915.