Pioneers follow buffalo paths through the cane-brakes and a gap in the Cumberland range into the Tennessee wilderness, where Fort Loudon stands on the Little Tennessee River as Britain’s outpost among the Overhill Cherokee. Prospectors dream of gold, love and rivalry run through the garrison, and the Cherokee war of 1759–61 closes in.
A historical novel of the colonial frontier by the pioneer of Tennessee mountain fiction, with the attitudes of 1899. Download the free EPUB.