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Fox can help us, even now, to consider what Appalachia finally means to its people. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Book 1908 by John Fox Jr. The Fox family house in Big Stone Gap, VA was turned into a museum in 1970. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (published in 1903) and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (published in 1908) are his most well known and successful works. 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. Through this romance runs the social and political drama of eastern Kentucky’s mountain people. (DecemJuly 8, 1919) was an American journalist, novelist, and short story writer. The novel became Foxs most successful, and was included among the top ten list of bestselling novels for 19. (1863–1919), author of The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come and many other books, remains one of Kentucky best-known and most popular writers.Ī classic of Appalachian literature. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1908 romance novel/western novel written by John Fox, Jr.
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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. Broadway Picture Producing Company of New York City was adapting John Fox, Jr.s best-selling 1908 novel, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, into a film. 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.
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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.