The first of five volumes on the history of the Swiss Anabaptist family Bachmann that migrated to America beginning in 1739 and took the name Baughman. Their settlement traces through the Virginia counties of Shenandoah and Botetourt in the 18th Century, on through Sevier County, Tennessee during the War of 1812, and into the frontier Ozark range spanning Missouri and Arkansas before statehood.