Six stories set on the Tennessee frontier of the eighteenth century, around stockades, blockhouses and Cherokee towns after the fall of Fort Loudon. A girl watches the world from a blockhouse port-hole, a Cherokee warrior wins honour at Chungke, captives are taken, ball-sticks are bewitched and a turbulent grandfather comes to visit.
Richly local historical fiction by the Tennessee writer Mary Noailles Murfree, best known under this pen name. Download the free EPUB.