The The Crossing Author:Winston Churchill 1908. This book was named The Crossing because Churchill tried to express in it the beginnings of that great movement across the mountains which swept resistless over the Continent until at last it saw the Pacific itself. The Crossing was the first instinctive reaching out of an infant nation which was one day to become a giant. No annals in the... more » world's history are more wonderful than the story of the conquest of Kentucky and Tennessee by the pioneers. Illustrated.« less