From the moment he answered John Wesley's call and set sail from England to America in 1771 just before the American Revolution broke out, Francis Asbury's life was fraught with peril.  As America's first circuit-riding preacher, Asbury was trailed by savage Indians, chased by deadly highwaymen, stalked by hungry wolves, and even hunted by soldiers of the Continental Army unaware that he supported the Revolution.  Riding 5,000 to 6,000 miles a year, he became the best-known man in the American colonies by the late 1700s - even more so than George Washington or Thomas Jefferson.