Chad, an orphan boy in the Kentucky mountains, runs away from Lonesome with his dog Jack, attends a blab school on Kingdom Come Creek and drifts down to the Bluegrass, where a kindly major takes him in and Margaret Dean wins his heart. When the war comes, Kentucky families split, and Chad must choose between the people who raised him and his own convictions.
A great bestseller of 1903, and a tender coming-of-age story of a border state at war. Download the free EPUB.
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