At times though, I felt the writing was hard to get through and difficult to follow. It has all the elements of a good romancea superior but natural heroine, a hero who is an agent of progress and enlightenment, a group of supposedly benighted mountaineers to be drawn into the flow of mainstream American culture, a generous dose of social and class struggle, and a setting. A long, lean, black- eyed boy, with a wave of black hair over his forehead, was pushing his horse the other way along the Big Black and dropping down through the dusk into the Middle Agesboth all but touching on either side the outstretched hands of the wild little creature left in the shadows of Lonesome Cove.
Both stories are very interesting and blend well together. published this great romantic novel of the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky and Virginia in 1908, and the book quickly became one of America's favorites.
Part of this novel is a love story, centering on a young girl, June Tolliver & her love interest John Hale, the "furriner." The other side of this novel focuses on what life is like for the "mountain people" and the effects of the coal mining boom, and the influx of foreigners into their way of life. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is really two stories in one. Language: English Binding: Paperback Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Genre: Fiction ISBN: 9781512032734, 9781512032734 Pages: 202. Not being from the region that the Trail of the Lonesome Pine is written about, I was definitely reading it from a "furriner" point of view. The entrance of this "furriner" will change June's life forever. When John Hale enters the Tolliver/Falin territory, June is immediately drawn to him. It has all the elements of a good romancea superior but natural heroine, a hero who is an agent of progress and enlightenment, a group of supposedly benighted mountaineers to be drawn into the flow of mainstream American culture, a generous dose of social and class struggle, and a setting among the misty coves and cliffs of the blue Cumberlands. A town is blossoming in Big Stone Gap Virginia.and the Trail of the Lonesome Pine connects the town with Lonesome Cove, home of the Tolliver family, and a pretty little mountain girl named June. The story begins as life in the mountains is beginning to al mining is starting to boom, and the oustide world is creeping into the simple ways of mountain life. At the heart of this novel are the Tolliver & Falin families, who have been in a feud with one another for as far back as anyone can remember. It is a story of love, as well as change. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine takes place in the Kentucky mountains, bordering Big Stone Gap, Virginia.