Book description
John Fox Jr. published this great romantic novel of the Cumberland
Mountains of Kentucky and Virginia in 1908, and the book quickly
became one of America's favorites. It has all the elements of a good
romance -- a superior but natural heroine, a hero who is an agent of
progress and enlightenment, a group of supposedly benighted
mountaineers to be drawn into the flow of mainstream American culture,
a generous dose of social and class struggle, and a setting among the
misty coves and cliffs of the blue Cumberlands.
Reprinted with a foreword by John Ed Pearce, The Trail of the
Lonesome Pine has all the excitement and poignance that caught and
held readers' interest when the book first appeared.
"A classic of Appalachian literature. Through this romance
runs the social and political drama of eastern Kentucky's mountain
people.... Fox can help us, even now, to consider what Appalachia
finally means to its people." -- Appalachian Journal
John Fox Jr. (1863--1919), author of The Little Shepherd of
Kingdom Come and many other books, remains one of Kentucky best-known
and most popular writers.
