Jerry Hall sets out to discover how her father's family, who she knew were originally from Oldham, ended up in the United States, and her investigation takes her from the cotton mills of Lancashire to the plains of Texas at the time of the railroad. She also explores her mother's side of the family and discovers her ancestors' pioneering roots as they headed west across the United States at the time of the Frontier, and finds out about a connection to the original pioneer and American folk hero, Daniel Boone.