He chronicled in popular fiction the customs and characters of southern Appalachia and produced two of the first million-selling novels in the United States, The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1903) and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908). The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1908 romance novel/western novel written by John Fox, Jr. was one of Virginia’s best-selling writers in the first decade of the twentieth century. It is this conflict between clans, who are used to settling their differences established by a century of tradition, and the principled Hale that threatens to destroy the budding romance between him and June, who then must choose between clan loyalties and the man she loves. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine von John Jr. The coming boom time for the region requires Hale to establish authoritative law and order that the two feuding clans refuse to recognize. But he also has an eye for the young natural beauty of a mountain girl, June Tolliver, whom he feels compelled to free from the confines of mountain life and introduce to higher education. Geologist Hale has a vision for the potential wealth of the natural raw materials, especially coal, that he intends to use as a means of creating a legacy for himself and the Gap. Entering the area, enterprising "furriner" (foreigner) John Hale captures the attention of the beautiful June Tolliver, and inadvertently becomes entangled in the region's politics. Coal mining begins to exert its influence on the area, despite the two families' feuds. The character of Devil Judd Tolliver in the novel was based on the real life of "Devil John" Wesley Wright, a United States Marshal for the region in and around Wise County, Virginia, and Letcher County, Kentucky. The outside world and industrialization, however, are beginning to enter the area. Set in the Appalachian Mountains at the turn of the twentieth century, a feud has been boiling for over thirty years between two influential mountain families, the Tollivers and the Falins. It has been adapted numerous times for both stage and screen. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1908 romance novel/western novel written by John Fox, Jr. The novel became Fox's most successful, and was included among the top ten list of bestselling novels for 19. Yohn Charles Scribner's Sons publishers, New York hard bound very good condition with unmarked pages no dust jacket. 1909 previous owners signature inside front (nice) illustrated by G.C.
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