Author Description

Deep in the undeveloped backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains, two young men are caught in the midst of an ancient and bitter feud between two families and fighting for the romantic attention of a beautiful woman... A feud, the origins of which can barely be remembered, has been boiling for decades between two sheltered mountain families, the Tollivers and the Falins. And for Jack Hale the Cumberland country on the borders of Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee meant the way to great riches. With plans to build a railroad through both families' land and mine coal deposits beneath it, the enterprising outsider inadvertently becomes entangled in the region's politics. Hale's chance meeting with a young mountain woman has a dramatic impact upon both their lives as both become immersed in a love triangle with her and her cousin Dave. 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 1908 and 1909.