Erskine Dale-Pioneer (Illustrated)

by John Fox Jr

Overview

Erskine Dale—Pioneer is an epic of our Colonial and Revolutionary days, full of the adventure and romance of the beginnings of Kentucky and Virginia. John Fox, Jr., closes his series of novels of American life with a tale of the origin of the people celebrated in his mountain stories. Erskine Dale, raised among the Indians though of Virginia blue blood, is a romantic figure of the Cooper type—a companion of George Rogers Clark, a participant in the border warfare, and finally in the great Revolution itself. The heroine is the inspiration of Erskine Dale's adventurous career.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9786854155363
Publisher:	Wise Owl Books
Publication date:	07/02/2022
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

John Fox, Jr., (December 16, 1862 – July 8, 1919) was an American journalist, novelist, and short story writer. Fox was one of Virginia’s best-selling writers in the first decade of the twentieth century. Though he occasionally wrote for periodicals, after 1904, Fox dedicated much of his attention to fiction. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (published in 1903) and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (published in 1908) are arguably his most well known and successful works, entering the New York Times top ten list of bestselling novels for 1903, 1904, 1908, and 1909 respectively. In The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, the character Devil Judd Tolliver was based on the real life of "Devil John" Wesley Wright, the sheriff of Wise County, Virginia. Many of his works reflected the naturalist style, his childhood in Kentucky's southern Appalachia, and his life among the coal miners of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Many of his novels were historical romances or period dramas set in that region.

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