Two of the greatest explorers in American history - Daniel Boone and Jim Bridger - join forces to hack their way through Kentucky and blaze the Wilderness Trail for Richard Henderson's Transylvania Colony in 1775. But the longer they lurk in what they thought was a previously unexplored spooky part of the region, the more they find that mysterious others have already gotten here first. And as Boone, Bridger and Henderson each pursue their own idealistic goals, the spectre of the approaching Revolutionary War threatens to throw their plans into disarray.