"The Kentuckians of Janice Holt Giles's title were that hardy band of angels who straggled through Cumberland Gap in the 1770s and carved their farms from the wilderness of Virginia's westernmost country. In her historical novel, first published in 1953, Giles invited the reader to experience the danger and beauty of life on the American frontier.Many of the frontiersmen were hunter in search of escape from an ever advancing civilization, seeking freedom and space. Such a man was David Cooper, who had hunted the Kentucky wilderness with Daniel Boone before the first settlers crossed the Appalachians. No love of land or home or woman had been strong enough to hold David -- until he met Bethia. It was for her that he cleared his patch of forest, planted crops, and built a cabin. Too late, he learned that the girl he had dreamed of marrying was the wife of his enemy.David and Bethia belonged to a generation that never knew or expected security, and the background of their story is one of outnumbered and ill-equipped, were hard put to defend their forts. And, although united in war against the British and their Indian allies, the settlers were at odds among themselves. May, including Boone, held land grants from Judge Henderson's Transylvania Company. Others, like David, based their claims on the authority of Virginia. Few today realize how close Henderson came to winning out.In her research, Giles studied the journals of the early Kentuckians and has retold their story in their own easy-flowing, cadenced prose. Only the three central characters are fictional. All subsidiary characters and historical events are authentic, set against the background of a country the author knows and loves.Janice Holt Giles (1905-1979), author of nineteen books, lived and wrote near Knifley, Kentucky, for thirty-four years. Her biography is told in Janice Holt Giles: A Writer's Life."

The Kentuckians

Literature & Fiction

Janice Holt Giles

Contemporary

Avon/Books

In her fourth novel of the Kentucky frontier, Giles combines her fascination for the past with her gift for storytelling. Had it not been for the loyalty of men like Giles's fictional hero, Major Cassius Cartwright, General James Wilkinson's 1783 attempt to create a Spanish empire in the West might have succeeded. Interwoven with the Spanish Conspiracy are tales of struggles with Indians, of the birth of a Green River Valley town, and of the two women Cass loves: Rachel, a gentle Quaker, and Tattie, a fiery waif he rescues from Philadelphia slums.

The Land Beyond the Mountains

Product details Mass Market Paperback: 332 pages Publisher: warner paperback library edition 1972 Language: English Package Dimensions: 7 x 4.1 x 1 inches Shipping Weight:10 ounces

The Great Adventure

AVON.

FIRST AVON PRINTING. Jan. 1977 mass market paperback, Janice Holt Giles (Hannah Fowler). Set in 1861, at the beginning of Kentucky's reluctant entry into the Civil War, the novel tells the story of a five-day adventure on the Green River.

Run Me a River

CARAVAN! 
She was Judith Fowler, and she was driving a team of mules hitched to a light wagon which was to be her tome on the road for she knew not how long. Her eyes fled to the man on the horse and something torn and lovely cried to him, husband--Johnny!\nAcross the great green grassland sea, from the settled Arkansas Territory to the heroic mountains of Santa Fe, Johnny Fowler's wagon train made its determined way. At his side was his wife, Judith, twenty-two and the only woman on the train. And sharing her Johnny's hardships and dangers, she had no fear but one - that some day he would make her a stranger with thoughts he never shared. For already she felt that her mind did not know, would never know, the mind of "Johnny Osage."

Voyage to Santa Fe

Johnny Osage

The author reminisces about her childhood days spent in Kinta, Oklahoma, where her father served as a school principal for six years

The Kinta Years: An Oklahoma Childhood

Biographies & Memoirs

Houghton/Mifflin

Hannah Fowler

WARNER PAPERBACK LIBRARY

Exclusive 3 in 1 Volume: The Enduring Hills, Miss Willie, Tara's Healing. Life and love in Kentucky Mountain Country

The Piney Ridge Trilogy

The University Press of Kentucky

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The Kentuckians

The Land Beyond the Mountains

The Great Adventure

Run Me a River

Voyage to Santa Fe

Johnny Osage

The Kinta Years: An Oklahoma Childhood

Hannah Fowler

Johnny Osage

The Piney Ridge Trilogy