[Gutenberg 3024] • The Last Stetson
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- Authors
- Fox, John
- Publisher
- Pearl Necklace Books
- Tags
- vendetta -- fiction , mountain life -- fiction , cumberland mountains -- fiction , kentucky -- fiction
- Date
- 2014-04-22T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.04 MB
- Lang
- en
• Three of American author John Fox Jr.'s classic westerns from the early 1900s are bound together in this Kindle book: The Last Stetson, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine the other was to stay at home and have peace. Jasper was fairly whipped but when Rome let him up he proved treacherous and ran for his gun.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, A Novel (1908)
A romance novel/western novel which became Fox's most successful novel. It was in the top ten bestselling novels for 1908 and 1909 and adapted numerous times for both stage and screen.
The novel inspired the same-titled song published in 1913.
The Heart Of The Hills, A Novel (1913)
Jason and Mavia, two children of the Cumberland region, are sent to the blue grass county to attend school. The story is set against the backdrop of an old feud between the Hawns and the Honeycutts, and a tobacco growers' war
About The Author
John Fox, Jr. (1862 - 1919) was an American journalist and novelistborn in Stony Point, Kentucky. He studied English at Harvard University and became a reporter in New York City for the New York Times and the New York Sun. He published The Kentuckians in 1898 and gained a following as a war correspondent, working for Harper's Weekly in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898.
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (published in 1903) and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (published in 1908) are his most widely known and best-selling books, entering the New York Times top ten list of bestselling novels for 1903, 1904, 1908, and 1909.
SERIES:
The John Fox Jr. Classic American Westerns series includes:
Volume 1
The Last Stetson,
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, A Novel (1908)
The Heart Of The Hills, A Novel (1913)
Volume 2
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908)
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1903)
A Mountain Europa (1899)
Volume 3
A Cumberland Vendetta and Other Stories (1895)
A Knight of the Cumberland (1906)
In Happy Valley
'Hell fer Sartain' and Other Stories
Volume 4
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1903)
In Happy Valley (1917)
A Mountain Europa (1899)
Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories (1904)