Two kinsmen, a tall mountaineer with a Winchester and a boy with a squirrel rifle, slip out of their childhood hiding cave onto a ridge above the river. Their clan is locked in a feud with its neighbours, and when big, good-natured Rufe returns from the West a changed man, old grudges and a love across the feud line come to a head.
A short, vivid novel of Appalachian life from the author of The Trail of the Lonesome Pine. Download the free EPUB.