Janice Holt Giles
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Janice Holt Giles had a life before her marriage and writing career in Kentucky. Born in Altus, Arkansas, Giles spent many childhood summers visiting her grandparents there. After the success of her historical novel The Kentuckians in 1953, she planned to write a second frontier romance. But a visit to Altus caused her imagination to drift from Kentucky in 1780 to western Arkansas in 1913.
At age forty-eight — the same age as
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
English
Description
This book is a story of violence and death as the mule train is imperiled by flood and drought, by wild animals and men, and by treachery within its own ranks. It is also the story of a marriage strengthened through danger and adversity faced together with courage and mutual trust.
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
A historical novel, first published in 1953, which examines the lives of the frontiersmen who struggled to settle western Virginia in the 1770s through the story of David Cooper, a young friend of Daniel Boone, who hopes to build a farm and family in the wilderness.
Author
Series
Piney ridge trilogy volume 1
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
"The story of Hod Pierce, a young man who grows up on Piney Ridge, where generations of Pierces have made a living from the stubborn soil. Hod loves his people and the land but longs for wider horizons, for more education, and for the freedom his imagines can be found in the outside world. It takes World War II to carry Hod away from the Ridge and out into the owrld, and it takes his city-bred wife to make Hod realize that Piney Ridge will always...