Autor: Charles Neville Buck

10 Complete Works of Charles Neville Buck A Pagan of the Hills Call of the Cumberlands Destiny The Key to Yesterday The Lighted Match The Portal of Dreams The Roof Tree The Tempering The Tyranny of W …

The author was a native of Kentucky and wrote from first-hand experience about the warring ways of rival clans and the fact that progress threatened to bring about an end to their century-old lifesty …

Boone Wellver, descendant of those straggling pioneer followers of Daniel Boone who failed to reach the Western Valleys, lived in the Kentucky Mountains where his forefathers had settled, barefoot, i …

This book is a really nicely written, fun and entertaining novel, written at the turn of the century, about adventure and the pursuit of a mysterious and amazing woman who has the protagonist’s undyi …

Exerpt: "A creaking complaint of loose and rattling boards rose under the old mountaineer’s brogans as he stepped from the threshold to the porch. His eyes, searching the wooded mountain-side, h …

Excerpt: "Between the smoke-darkened walls of the mountain cabin still murmured the last echoes of the pistol’s bellowing, and it seemed a voice of everlasting duration to the shock-sickened ner …

Excerpt: "They were types in embryo, but of course they did not know it. No more would a grain of wheat and a poppy seed dropping side-by-side in a fallow place reflect upon their destinies, tho …

A lovely princess travels incognito through the States and falls in love with an American man. There are ties that bind her to someone in her own home, and the great plot revolves round her efforts t …

Excerpt: "When the pioneers first set their feet into the Wilderness trail out of Virginia, some left because the vague hinterland west Of the ridges placed them beyond the law’s pursuing." …

Excerpt: "Between precipices echoed the crash of ice sliding loose and splintering as it fell in ponderous masses. Men sweating in the glare of collossal bonfires toiled at the work of re-inforc …

Excerpt: "A young painter has dedicated himself to his art and left out all other pursuits and diversions. At last he admits to his closest friend the reason for his quiet life: he cannot recall …

Excerpt: "The agitated transit of Mr. Lewis Copewell through the anteroom of the Honorable Alexander Hamilton Burrow created a certain stir. With all the lawless magnificence of a comet that run …

Excerpt: "And as he stumbled, willy-hilly, upon the Marquess kid, the Marquess kid joyously gathered him in and began raining enthusiastic rights and lefts upon the blanched and blue-veined face …

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"The Call of the Cumberlands" is a unique by using Charles Neville Buck that captures the essence of the rugged Appalachian region for the duration of the early 20th century. Published in 1 …