Young William Henry Harrison won fame as an Indian fighter in the Northwest Territory, and was named governor of the Indiana Territory before he was 30. His military service in the War of 1812 made him a national hero. General Harrison lived in a remodeled log house near Cincinnati, where he combined public service with running his large farm. His “Log Cabin Campaign” in 1840 was the first modern political campaign. More Americans voted in the election of 1840 than ever before. Harrison was the oldest president elected until Ronald Reagan, and the first to die in office. Author Sue Ann Painter traces Harrison’s adventures from his pampered Virginia childhood to the Ohio wilderness, and on to the White House. It is the romantic story of a courageous citizen-soldier, whose contemporaries idolized him as the “Father of the West.”