Whirling around this story is a longstanding feud between the Tollivers and the Falins, supposedly started over a child’s jeers during a game of marbles. So she begins the book a teenager and comes to maturity throughout the tale. Although the book repeatedly calls her “little girl,” the narrator also comments that many mountain girls would be married by her age. June is sturdy and unschooled, but wise in mountain culture. While looking at the lay of the land, he meets a girl named June. He came from the north, hoping to build up a town and make his fortune from coal mining in the region. This is a tale of an engineer who has big dreams of progress and advancement. If The Trail of the Lonesome Pine caught the imagination of the United States through the Twenties, I wanted to know why. Wondering about this flurry of interest, I began a search and ended up at this title. You can see the sheet music in the illustration. However, the Lonesome Pine motif appears quite often in crochet and embroidery through the 1920s. I was completely unaware of this book before I started to research needlework patterns. Project Gutenberg offers the 1912 version for free reading. In 1912 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine was adapted into a Broadway play and the book was republished. Published in 1908, it became a bestselling novel. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, by John Fox Jr., is a tale of the Appalachian mountains of the Virginia/Kentucky border before the coal mines and before the railroad. This month I’m reading a bestseller about a civil engineer and a mountain girl. Sheet music for the song derived from the novel.
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