The Road to Courage: A Boy's Adventures on America's Last Frontier - Hardcoverby Roy Taylor (Author) Set in the mid twentieth century, The Road to Courage is narrated by a young boy as he journeys with his family to new and wild territory on the Alaskan frontier, a land where life's priority is survival rather than comfort. This memoir sketches a portrait of his complex family courageous, committed, flawed, and yet resilient and, through a series of terrifying adventures, traces the unbreakable bond between the timid narrator