First published in 1958, this reprint gives Giles fans another lively piece of Kentucky's frontier history.(Publisher). Like Giles's earlier historical novels, The Land Beyond the Mountains is an engaging story of adventure and romance. 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. 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. In her fourth novel of the Kentucky frontier, Giles combines her fascination for the past with her gift for storytelling. Stickers from Horton's Bookstore in Carrollton, GA to front paste-down and endpaper. Inked inscription to front free endpaper. Dust-spotting and remainder mark to edges of text block. Rubbing, soiling, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of green cloth over boards. In The Believers, first published in 1957, she continues her series about the settling of Kentucky with a moving story of love and marriage set in a Shaker community. Rubbing, creasing, chipping, and tears to covers, corners, and edges of price-clipped dust jacket. In her historical novels about Kentucky, Janice Holt Giles has become known for the integrity with which she handles her material and for the realism with which she writes. Giles, Janice Holt The Land Beyond the Mountains FOURTH PRINTINGÄ«oston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958.
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