Library Extension Publication [Serial]

University of North Carolina Library Studies

Number 2

ORTH CAROLINA FICTION 1734-1957

An Annotated Bibliography

1958

University of North Carolina Library Studies Number 2

NORTH CAROLINA FICTION

17344957

An Annotated Bibliography

Prepared by the Joint Committee On North Carolina Literature and Bibliography of The North Carolina English Teachers Association and The North Carolina Library Association UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA LIBRARY STUDIES

No. 1 North Carolina County Histories, A Bibliography, by William S. Powell, 1958

No. 2 North Carolina Fiction, 1734-1957: An Annotated Bibliography, by a Joint Committee of the North Carolina English Teachers Association and the North Carolina Library Association, 1958

NORTH CAROLINA LITERATURE SERIES in Library Extension Publications

1949 John Charles McNeill, North Carolina Poet, 1874-1907, a Bio- graphical Sketch, by Agatha Boyd Adams

1949 North Carolina Writers [a study outline], by Walter Spearman

1950 Thomas Wolfe: Carolina Student, a Brief Biography, by Agatha Boyd Adams

1951 Paul Green of Chapel Hill, by Agatha Boyd Adams, edited by Richard Walser

1952 Inglis Fletcher of Bandon Plantation, by Richard Walser

1952 North Carolina Authors: a Selective Handbook

1954 Frederick H. Koch: a Short Biography, by Samuel Selden and Mary T. Sphangos

1955 Bernice Kelly Harris, by Richard Walser

1956 North Carolina Musicians

1957 O. Henry in North Carolina, by Cathleen Pike

Imaginary landing of a ballonist near Salem in 1789. See No. 528. NORTH CAROLINA FICTION

1734-1957 An Annotated Bibliography

William S. Powell Editor

JOINT COMMITTEE

fFlorence Blakely, Duke University Library Grace S. Dalton, Librarian, Garner High School

*Carlyle J. Frarey, School of Library Science, University of North Carolina Earl H. Hartsell, Department of English, University of North Carolina Mildred C. Herring, Librarian, Greensboro Senior High School Katherine Hinson, Teacher of English, Charlotte City Schools Mary T. Hoffler, Teacher of English, Enfield High School fCornelia Love, Chapel Hill fRosalie Massengale, University of North Carolina Library Cathleen Pike, Teacher of English, Wadesboro High School

William S. Powell, University of North Carolina Library Mae Tucker, Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County * Elaine von Oesen, North Carolina State Library Richard Walser, Department of English, North Carolina State College *Jane B. Wilson, Library Consultant, Durham City Schools

t Appointed January, 1957. * Served through 1956.

vi CONTENTS

Illustrations ix

Introduction xi

Location Symbols xiii

Reader Key xvi

Bibliography 1

Index 171

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https://archive.org/details/libraryextension23univ ILLUSTRATIONS

Imaginary landing of a ballonist near Salem in 1789 from Hirum Harum by SchofeL Frontispiece

Page 'The Fortunate Shipwreck," 1720, contains the first mention of Carolina in fiction 49

A Wreath from the Woods of Carolina, the first children's book by a North Carolinian. 85

The Life and Entertaining Adventures of Mr. Cleveland in which North Carolina first appears as a setting 119

Alamance by Calvin H. Wiley, the first native North Carolinian to write a novel 161

INTRODUCTION

Shortly after the publication of North Carolina Authors: A Selective Handbook (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Library, 1952), the Joint Committee of the North Carolina English Teachers Association and the North Carolina Library Association was authorized to continue its studies in state literature and bibliography. The present volume is the result of three years of cooperative research, to which staff members of public and institutional libraries, teachers of English, and private col- lectors have generously contributed. The guiding purpose has been to make readily available to reference librarians, teachers, students, local historians, antiquarians, writers, and other interested users a substantial quantity of pertinent information about every known book of fiction with an ascertainable North Carolina setting published during the past 223 years. No part of this purpose is to recommend for profitable or enjoyable reading a random selection of such a two-century "attic" accumulation. Indexed to facilitate finding and annotated for purposeful selection and location, the book is only a descriptive catalogue, one function of which is to prevent waste of time in examining hundreds of useless items for fear of overlooking a few of genuine worth. The comprehensive, non-selective scope of the bibliography appears to be justified by the almost infinite variety of purposes for which it is likely to be used. To serious literary and social historians, half or more of the titles may be of no importance whatever; yet exclusion for lack of literary merit or historical authenticity would deprive of helpful guidance those who seek the rare, the antique, the locally or topically specific, the awkwardly imitative, and the unconsciously droll. While qualitative judgments are stated in some annotations and implied in most, such judgments are to be attributed to the individual readers whose initials are appended and do not attempt more than a suggestion of selectivity.

Yet, comprehensive as it is, the scope of the bibliography excludes some noteworthy works which friendly critics will wish it had listed. Exclusion of many novels by well-known North Carolina authors on the basis of setting alone will be as keen a disappointment to some users as it is an unrelished practice of consistency on the part of the Joint Committee. Some dubious exclusions result from authors' use of a generalized regional setting which cannot be identified, by internal or external evidence, as definitely North Carolinian. Many valuable short stories are omitted because they were not published in book-length collections. The sometimes imperceptible line between fiction and non- fiction may have caused occasional erroneous discriminations. Several eligible novels, known to have been published, could not be included because no extant copy could be located. An attempt has been made to limit each annotation to fifty words, therefore only the barest hint of what the book contains may sometimes be given. The initials following the annotation are those of the person who read the book and gave the Joint Committee a report on it; the reader did not necessarily prepare the annotation and in no case should

xi he be held responsible for it. Most of the annotations were prepared by- members of the Joint Committee from information furnished by the readers. The index, however, has been prepared from both the annotations and the readers' information sheets so that information contained in the books may sometimes be brought out in the index but not in the annotation itself. The date of publication indicated for books in the bibliography is not always that of the first edition nor of the edition held by the libraries and individuals owning copies. It merely represents the particular edition available to the reader. We believe we have pointed out some interesting "firsts" in the field of North Carolina fiction: the first to mention Carolina (204), published in 1720; the first with a North Carolina setting (495), published in 1734; the first by a native of the state (662), published in 1847; the first children's book (352), published in 1859; and one of the first by an American Negro author to be critically acclaimed (91), published in 1899. The editor acknowledges his thanks for the cheerful assistance and careful work of each member of the Joint Committee, but he especially owes a debt of gratitude to Richard Walser who acted as Chairman of the group and to Cornelia Love who assisted in preparing the index.

xii LOCATION SYMBOLS

Ab Randolph Public Library, Asheboro Al Stanly County Public Library, Albemarle AS Appalachian State Teachers College Library, Boone Av Pack Memorial Public Library, Asheville BA Belmont Abbey College, Belmont Bk Mitchell County Library, Bakersville Bn Yancey County Public Library, Burnsville BwR B. W. Roberts, Durham CC Catawba College Library, Salisbury Ch Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, Charlotte Cn Concord Public Library, Concord DC Davidson College Library, Davidson Dr Durham Public Library, Durham DU Duke University Library, Durham ECC East Carolina College Library, Greenville Fc Forest City Public Library, Forest City FoC Francis O. Clarkson, Charlotte Fy Cumberland County Public Library, Fayetteville Gb Greensboro Public Library, Greensboro

xiii GC Greensboro College Library, Greensboro Gs Gaston County Public Library, Gastonia GUC Guilford College Library, Guilford College Gv Sheppard Memorial Library, Greenville Hb Orange County Confederate Memorial Library, Hillsborn Hk Elbert Ivey Memorial Library, Hickory Kn Kinston Public Library, Kinston Lb Scotland County Memorial Library, Laurinburg LC Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. Lk Rockingham County Library, Leaksville Ln Caldwell County Public Library, Lenoir Lx Davidson County Public Library, Lexington Mg Morganton-Burke Public Library, Morganton Mr McDowell Public Library, Marion NCC North Carolina College Library, Durham NCS North Carolina State College Library, Raleigh

Nl Avery County Public Library, Newland

Rl Olivia Raney Library, Raleigh Rm Thomas Hackney Braswell Memorial Library, Rocky Mount

xiv RpM Roger P. Marshall, Raleigh Ru Rutherford County Library, Rutherfordton SA Saint Augustine College Library, Raleigh Sb Rowan Public Library, Salisbury SC Salem College Library, Winston-Salem SH Sacred Heart Junior College Library, Belmont SL North Carolina State Library, Raleigh Sm Johnston County Public Library, Smithfield Sn Spruce Pine Public Library, Spruce Pine Ty Lanier Library, Tryon UNC University of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill WC Woman's College of the University of North Carolina Library, Greensboro WhR William H. Ruffin, Durham Wl Wilson County Public Library, Wilson Wm W.L.I. Memorial Library, Wilmington WnB Winston Broadfoot, Hillsboro Ws Public Library of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, Winston-Salem WsP William S. Powell, Chapel Hill Wy Haywood County Public Library, Waynesville

Where no holdings are shown ten or more copies have been located.

xv READER KEY

(C.M.A.) Charles M. Adams (E.S.A.) Elizabeth Smith Averitt

(E.J.B.) Evelyn J. Bishop (E.R.B.) Eleanor R. Bailey (F.B.) Florence Blakely (J.E.B.) Joyce E. Bruner (L.B.) Louise Bethea (M.B.)i Madge Blalock (M.B.)2 Marion Beakley (M.J.B.) Mabel Byron (M.R.B.) Mary Royster Beam (N.B.B.) Nancy Bates Boone (P.S.B.) Paul S. Ballance (S.F.B.) Sarah F. Beal (V.F.B.) Virginia F. Barnes (V.M.B.) Vernon M. Bingham (W.Bft.) Winston Broadfoot (A.B.C.) Arline Campbell (E.H.C.) Elizabeth H. Copeland (E.M.C.) Edith M. Clark

(L.J.C.) Lucille J. Chinnock (M.C.)l Mary Canada (M.C.)2 Myra Champion (B.W.D.) Betsy W. Dunn (C.G.D.) Chalmers G. Davidson (D.D.) Dorothy Lou Dickey (G.S.D.) Grace S. Dalton (H.F.D.) Fitzhugh Dade (J.D.) Joe Dixon (M.F.D.) Mary F. Doby (A.E.) Antoinette Earle (E.J.E.) Esther Evans (G.E.) Geraldine B. Eggleston (W.L.E.) William L. Eury (C.L.F.) Charlesanna Fox (M.P.F.) Mary Patterson Fisher

(F D G 1 (N.G.) Nancy Gray (C.H.) Carolyn Head (E.H.H.) E. H. Hartsell

xvi (E.J.H.) Elizabeth Jerome Holder (E.W.H.)l Elizabeth W. Harris (E.W.H.) 2 Eleanor W. Hooks (K.H.) Katie Howell (K.E.H.) Katherine Howell (K.W.H.) Katherine W. Hinson (L.G.H.) Lelia G. Humble (M.H.) Marjorie Hood (M.C.H.)1 Mildred C. Herring

(M.C.H.)2 Mrs. T. E. Hoffler, Jr. (M.C.H.) 3 Mary C. Hopkins (M.C.H.)4 Mrs. Miles C. Horton, Jr. (M.K.H.) Margaret K. Homey (M.M.H.) Minnie M. Hussey (R.C.H.) Rena C. Harrell (V.H.) Vincie Hayes (V.J.H.) Virginia Johnson Harris (G.J.) Gladys Johnson (M.B.J.) Mabel B. Jones (R.O.J.) Ruth O. Jeffreys (R.M.K.) Rebecca M. Kerr (C.S.L.) Cornelia S. Love (C.T.L.) Charles T. Laugher (J.G.L.) Jane Ligon (L.F.L.) Lawrence F. London (M.L.) Margaret Lee (M.H.L.) Margaret H. Ligon (P.K.L.) Peggy K. Lyons (V.T.L.) Virginia T. Lathrop (E.M.) Eva McKenna (H.W.M.) Harry W. McGalliard (J.G.M.) Julia Gray McDonnell (J.L.M.) Jane L. McDaniel (M.B.M.) Mrs. Arthur McDaniel (P.B.M.) Pattie B. Mclntyre (R.M.) Rosalie Massengale (S.E.M.) Sallie E. Mann (T.C.M.) Thomas C. McCall (T.W.M.) Treva W. Mathis (E.R.McL.) Emma Ruth McLean (J.H.N.) Mrs. John H. Nettles (S.N.) Sarah C. Nahory

xvii (C.J.P.) Catharine J. Pierce (C.M.P.) Cathleen M. Pike (I.L.P.) Ida L. Padelford (M.L.P.) Mary Louise Phillips (V.W.P.) Virginia Waldrop Powell (W.S.P.) William S. Powell (B.R.) Bessie Ralston (B.W.R.) B. W. Roberts (L.R.R.) Lulu Ruth Reed (R.R.) Rosalind L. Reddeck (D.E.S.) Dorothy E. Shue (J.A.S.) Jane A. Smith (J.H.S.) Jacqueline Sprinkle (M.B.S.) Margaret Seigler (M.R.S.) Mary Robert Seawell (D.B.T.) Dorothy Thomas (H.T.) Helen Thompson (H.T.T.) Harriett T. Taylor (J.T.) Jeannette Trotter (M.J.T.) Margaret Jean Taylor (M.K.T.) Mae Kreeger Tillman (M.S.T.) Mae S. Tucker (T.T.) Thelma Thompson (E.vO.) Elaine von Oesen (C.W.) Carolyn Wallace (E.H.W.) Elizabeth H. Wood (L.R.W.) Lindsay R. Whichard (M.E.W.) Mrs. Emmett C. Willis (P.W.) Penelope Wilson (S.V.W.) Sue Vernon Williams (W.C.W.) Willye C. Wright (A.L.Y.) Annie Lee Yates (F.B.Y.) Frances B. Yates

xviii North Carolina Fiction 1734-1957

A.O.W. See Wheeler, A. O.

Abernethy, Arthur Talmage, 1872-1956. 1

Moonshine. Asheville: Dixie Publishing Co., 1924. 219pp. The Appalachian Mountains form the setting for verbose, unrelated stories depicting a cross-section of life there when "moonshiners" abounded (about 1910-1920). In the longest story, "At the End of Love's Rainbow," Bertie Turner, an Asheville lawyer, and Minnie Meadows enact the time-worn plot of maid and unrequited lover. (M.L.P.) Av Ch Hk SL UNC

A Royal Southern Family; a Biographical Novel of Facts. 2 Nashville: Printed for the Author by the Parthenon Press, 1934. 144pp. Laban Logan's hard-won education leads to his becoming a Methodist minister and the president of a small college. Title derives from a Saxe-Coburg princess grandmother whose Scottish husband founded Rutherford College, in Burke County, in 1869. (C.L.F.) Ab Bk Hk NCC NCS Sb SL Sn UNC Ws

Abrahams, William. 3

Interval in Carolina. New York: Simon and Schuster. 181pp. During several weeks in September, 1942, at Camp Madison [Mon- roe?] just before going overseas, Sergeant Wally Young falls in love with a girl in a nearby town [Charlotte?] but gives her up, counting the affair only an "interval." Author is from Boston, a Harvard graduate who was an Army sergeant. (R.W.)

Ader, Paul Fassett, 1919- 4

The Leaf Against the Sky. New York: Crown, 1947. 311pp. Eight years [1932-40] in the life of John Perry, during which he attends Trumbull [Duke] University and plans to edit a newspaper in his mountain hometown of Macon [Franklin]. The hero struggles 2 Ake

against religious orthodoxy (the dark leaf) towards intellectual freedom (the bright sky) in a novel of man's maturing. (R.W.)

Ake, Eli D. 5

Ouaneetee: or Legend of Sunset Mountain.

N. pi.: n.p., c 1902. 138pp. The 8-12 age group will enjoy this simple love story of two Indians, daughter and son of the chiefs of hostile tribes. The time is 1700, the locale the present site of Asheville. (M.P.F.) UNC

Allee, Marjorie Hill, 1890-1945. 6

The Road to Carolina. Boston: Houghton, 1932. 241pp. Tristram Coffin and Uncle Tommy Pearson, a staunch Quaker abolitionist, are unable to leave North Carolina to return to their Indiana home when the Civil War breaks out. Protecting himself and the girl he comes to love takes all of Tristram's time for four years. (M.C.H.)i

American, An, pseud. See Strange, Robert

Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941. 7

Beyond Desire. New York: Liveright, 1932, 359pp.

In Birchfield [Gastonia], page 245 on, Red Oliver is drawn into a strike within the textile industry [1929] and, though he is no Com- munist, is killed by a State trooper. Proletarian in sympathy, this novel contains some realistic episodes in the camp of the dispossessed strikers. (R.W.) AS DC Dr DU Kn NCC UNC WC Wy

Kit Brandon. 8 New York: Scribner's, 1936. 372pp. An Appalachian mountain girl leaves her farm home to become a mill worker, shop girl, and finally a runner for a notorious bootlegger. Gastonia, Charlotte, and Greenville are mentioned. (E.M.C.) Al DU ECC NCS Ru Sb UNC Anderson 3

Anderson, Walter Wadsley, 1904- 9

Kill 1, Kill 2. New York: William Morrow, 1940. 284pp. In the mountain lodge near Asheville of power tycoon James Gennitt [reminiscent of James B. Duke?], a business executive is murdered. A disappearance and other attempted murders follow. The Murder [Brown] Mountain Lights, the thermal belt, mountain hiking and golfing, provide a background. (R.W.) Al Hk Lx Mg Rra Sb SL UNC Wl Wm

Armfield, Eugene Morehead, 1904- 10

Where the Weak Grow Strong. New York: Covici, Friede, 1936. 395pp. An episodic, composite, plotless "slice of life" novel of Tuttle [Thomasville] in 1912, in which all segments of the town's 5,000 population are presented: the mill hands, the business folk, the old ladies, those taking part in a festive Everybody's Day, and many, many others. (R.W.) Ab Al Dr DU NCS SL UNC WC Wm

Bachelor Knight, pseud. See Simms, William Gilmore

Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin, 1875- 11

Stories from an Indian Cave. The Cherokee Cave Builders. Chicago: Whitman, 1924. 217pp. Twenty-four Indian legends which have been passed down through the years by word of mouth are recorded here for the first time. (V.W.P.) Av Gv Lx Mr Rm Ru UNC Ws Wy

Bailey, Waldron, 1871-1953. 12

Heart of the Blue Ridge.

New York: W. J. Watt, 1915. 275pp. Life in North Carolina about 1880, in the mountains for the most part. Also mentioned are Greensboro, the Dismal Swamp, Ocracoke, Pamlico Sound, and Elizabeth City. Legend and dialect of the regions are used in relating incidents of romance, gangs, and dis- tilleries. (R.C.H.) GC Mg UNC WnB 4 Bailey

The Homeward Trail. 13

New York: W. J. Watt, 1916. 313pp. The scene of this story, suitable for adolescents, stretches from the Lumber to the Yadkin River. The plot revolves around the love of Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Chief Lowrie of the Croatan Indians, for David Swain. Ultimately she renounces him. Time: 1864. (M.P.F.) UNC

June Gold. 14

New York: W. J. Watt, 1922. 281pp. An adventure-romance of rumrunners at Bogue Island near Swans- boro during the prohibition era. When the native girl Lora accepts the love of a Northern socialite, the rejected Coast Guard suitor turns a congregation of "Hollinessers" against him, and there is a free-for-all in the church. Authentic descriptions of Bogue sandbanks. (R.W.) Sm UNC

When the Cock Crows. 15 New York: Bedford Pub. Co., 1918. 303pp. An indifferent story of an opium-crazed Northern doctor who abducts socialite Ethel Marion. She is rescued by a Beaufort fisher- man, Captain Ichabod Jones, on the lonely Core banks. There are some good scenes of the Cedar Island fisherfolk, as well as of Beaufort and the waters thereabouts. (R.W.) UNC

Bain, Grady Lee. 16

The Circle's End. Boston: Meador, 1932. 224pp. This story begins in Hampton (a Piedmont town of 10,000) and shifts

to Western North Carolina following World War I. It is a melodramatic account of a pampered widow and her daughter Merle's romances. Although Richard Wall, the proverbial "wolf," wins Merle first, he finally loses her and his own life. (M.M.H.) UNC

Baker, Emma Eugene Hall, 1844-1930. 17

The Master of L'£trange, by Eugene Hall, pseud. Philadelphia: Peterson, 1886. 346pp. Guy L'fitrange, handsome scion of proud wealthy French emigres, is master of sumptious Gothic castle atop a summit near the Swan- Baker 5

nanoa River. His love for unanimated, black-clad Genevieve La Rue is complicated by villains, mysterious organ music, a murder, mistaken identities, and absurd impossibilities in the most amplified romantic tradition. (R.W.) DU Rl SL UNC WhR

Vernal Dune: In Which Is Shown the End of an Era, by Eugene Hall, pseud. 18 New York: Neale, 1913. 253pp. This disjointed roman a clef of the Theo Chasseur [Theophilus Hunter, Jr.] family at Vernal Dune [Spring Hill Place] in Raleigh during the 1820's is an "authentic" picture of "ye goode ole tyme." Slavery is vigorously defended. Principal plot is the romance of Jannette Chasseur and an aristocratic Methodist minister. (R.W.)

NCS Rl SL UNC

Baldwin, Seth. 19

Alas Lucinda! London: Denis Archer, 1932. 300pp. Summer doings of Lucinda Bemish, spinster, and her professor father, at a mountain resort in North Carolina. Picnics, charades, love affairs, hiking parties are narrated in a simple pleasing style. Time, around 1915. (M.P.F.) UNC

Barrett, J. Pressley, 1852-1924. 20

Iola; or Facing the Truth. Raleigh: Edwards, Broughton & Co., 1886. 220pp.

At "Wyman's Falls" in Eastern N. C, Iola Graham is "disfellow- shipped" from her Baptist congregation because of her public rejec- tion of close communion. This anti-Baptist religious "correction" novel was written by a minister of the Christian Church. The "untold good" it "accomplished" prompted a second edition in 1895. (R.W.) Av DU SL UNC

Bartlett, Frederick Orin, 1876- 21

Big Laurel. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922. 305pp. A lovely young mountain girl falls in love with a visiting A.E.F. 6 Batterham

captain but finally settles for her wild, untamed local lover in the Blue Ridge [Banner Elk?] in 1919. (C.S.L.) Lx SL UNC

Batterham, Rose, pseud. See Houskeeper, Mrs. William G.

Beale, Maria Taylor, 1849- 22

Jack O'Doon. New York: Holt, 1894. 277pp. Melodramatic story of Mercy Blessington, cultured daughter of a retired sea captain in northeastern North Carolina, and her two suitors. One is Jack O'Doon, an unlettered but courageous fisher- man; the other is Algernon Abercrombie, dilettante artist. Mercy's friendship completely reforms Algie whose life is saved by Jack at the cost of his own. (E.vO.) Av SL UNC Wm

Beasley, Charles Oscar. 23

Those American R's: Rule, Ruin, Restoration, by one Who has been R'd. Philadelphia: Edward E. Wenley & Co., 1882. 335pp.

This rambling, didactic, account of Reconstruction in its political, economic and social aspects, as seen through the eyes of Dr. Castle- ton and his family and friends, is extremely dated but might be of interest to the social historian. (E.M.) UNC

Becker, Kate Harbes. 24

Was It Worth While? Belmont, N. C: Outline Co., 1947. 186pp. In a simple, sentimental story, Kate Becker goes to college at Maple- mount's McAuley Hall School (probably Sacred Heart, Belmont) and decides to become a nun. There she continues her training and teaches, after her final religious vows, learning in the process that "it was worthwhile." (B.W.D.) Ch UNC WC Bell 7

Bell, Coryden, 1894- 25

Come Snow fer Christmas: a Story of the Old Blue Ridge. Cleveland: Tower Press, 1947. 36pp. A mountain physician, missing his dead wife, writes her a letter each Christmas, describing the life of the community. One year something is wrong, no happy letter is possible, until the "Doc" befriends a burned-out family, and in a baby's birth unity is reborn. Well written and illustrated. (V.T.L.) Av

John Rattling-Gourd of Big Cove. 26

New York: Macmillan, 1955. 103pp. In the Qualla Reservation in Swain County, John Rattling-Gourd (Tsan Gan-se-ti), beloved old Cherokee, delights his young Indian friends with tribal myths and legends. The children's grandfather adds several stories handed down within the tribe. Illustrated by the author. Ages 8-12. (H.T.)

Bell, Thelma Harrington, 1896- 27

Mountain Boy. New York: Viking Press, 1947. 40pp. Illus. by Corydon Bell. Randy Reed lives in a mountain cabin and loves the outdoors. He learned to read all of nature's signs but not his ABC's and didn't see any use in knowing them. He always said "I can't" until his mother told him of a mule who, because he thought he couldn't, was stuck in the mud. Randy got the idea! Ages 8-12. (E.R. McL.)

Yaller-Eye. 28 New York: Viking Press, 1951. 88pp. Illus. by Corydon Bell. Yaller-Eye was Randy Reed's cat, but his mountain home was not a good place for pets unable to care for themselves. When Yaller- Eye lost a paw in a trap, Randy's father insisted that the cat must go. Little did he realize how much Yaller-Eye meant to Randy, so his teacher offered to keep Yaller-Eye so he could see her often and care for her during vacation. Ages 8-12. (V.H.)

UNC has author's manuscript.

Benet, Laura.

Caleb's Luck. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1942. 26pp. 8 Betts

Caleb, aged 10, is a poor but ambitious boy in the North Carolina mountains (Macon and Transylvania counties). Encouraged by his mother and a teacher, he sets out to dig for garnet. He meets a friendly geologist, who buys a beryl stone from him and arranges for Caleb's schooling. (W.C.W.) As Ch Gs Mg Rm Sm UNC

Betts, Doris Waugh, 1932- 30

The Gentle Insurrection and Other Stories. New York: Putnam, 1954. 274pp. The theme of these dozen stories of the small-town and rural South- ern scene, presumably the N. C. Piedmont, is the tragic "difficulty of communication between human beings." Lonely old men, a neurotic librarian, a mill worker building a fence about his house to assert his individuality—such are the characters. (R.W.)

Tall Houses in Winter.* 31 New York: Putnam, 1957. 383pp. Ten years after the death of his brother's wife whom he loved, college professor Ryan Godwin returns to Stoneville [Statesville] before a serious cancer operation. Twelve-year-old Fenwick, whom he believes to be his son, causes him to think through his life. Suc- cessful introspective variation on the tragic Paolo-Francesca theme. (R.W.)

Biggs, Rosa Fulghum. 32

I Take This Squaw. Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1942. 301pp. The author has used family tradition in Johnston County for this unevenly written novel. In 1790 aristocratic Jeffrey Massie takes Betty She-Horn to his plantation, where she bears him a son Clay, who is reared and educated with his legitimate half-brothers. Later Clay marries and inherits part of the plantation. (R.W.) DU Fy Sm UNC Wl

Blackburn, William Maxwell, editor. 33

One and Twenty: Duke Narrative and Verse, 1924-1945. Durham: Duke University Press, 1945. 293pp. In this anthology are Frances Gray Patton's "A Piece of Bread," the sensitive story of a child's contact with a chain-gang Negro; R. P.

* Winner of the Sir Walter Raleigh Award, 1957. Bledsoe 9

Harriss' "Red Coat Day," fox-hunting tale of the sandhills; and Ovid Williams Pierce's "One of the Darkies," about a white woman's attempt to "know" her tenant. (R.W.)

Bledsoe, Mary. 34

Shadows Slant North. Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1937. 398pp. Judy Harboard and her family, in the remote North Carolina mountains, find themselves more and more affected by the outside world, as railroads and highways, World War I, and the Prohibition Era bring novelty and romance into the mountaineers' lives. (W.L.E.)

Bloomfield, Howard. 35

Last Cruise of the "Nightwatch."

Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1956. 213pp. Bob Carter and Monk Tollison find themselves in charge of the yawl, Nightwatch, when their hired captain jumps ship. They decide to continue the journey and face many thrills and dangers before reaching their destination which takes them through North Carolina's Inland Waterway. Ages 14-18. (V.W.P.) UNC

Blythe, William LeGette, 1900- 36

Alexandriana. Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole, 1940. 445pp. This historical novel of 1768-1781 includes the battles of Alamance, Moores Creek Bridge, and Kings Mountain, and the signing of the Mecklenburg Declaration. Historical personages crowd the pages. The plot-thread concerns the life and loves of David Barksdale, bound boy of Mecklenburg-signer McKnitt Alexander of Charlotte. (R.W.)

Boggs, Martha Frye. 37

Jack Crews. New York: G. W. Dillingham Co.; 1899. 273pp. Jack Crews, recovering from an illness in his wife's old home in the North Carolina mountains, wins over the suspicious mountaineers by uncovering a gang of outlaws, thieves and counterfeiters. Slightly dated style. Time, 1880's. (E.M.) UNC 10 Bolton

Bolton, Ivy May, 1879- 38

Tennessee Outpost. New York: Longmans, Green, 1939. 244pp. Adventures of young Brian O'Neill and his sister Polly in North Carolina and East Tennessee (1790-1794). The book portrays a little- known period of North Carolina history, when the State's western lands had become by cession a part of the Ohio Territory. (C.L.F.)

Ab Rl SL UNC

Bonnamy, Francis, pseud. See Walz, Audrey

Bothwell, Jean. 39

Lost Colony: The Mystery of Roanoke Island. Philadelphia: Winston, 1953. 191pp. Eleanor Dare helps young Humphrey Hall to come to Roanoke Island in 1587. He opposes the scheming Simon Ferdinando, fights Indians, and dreams of owning a large plantation. Historically authentic, but hardly a "mystery." Ages 10-14. (R.W.)

Bowyer, James T. 40

Witch of Jamestown, A Tale of Colonial Virginia. Richmond: J. W. Randolph & English, 1890. 151pp. A story of Jamestown and Bacon's Rebellion. Governor William Drummond (of Carolina) is a character. Also mentioned are John Locke and his Fundamental Constitutions and some of the Lords Proprietors. (W.S.P.) UNC

Boyd, James, 1888-1944. 41

Drums. New York: Scribner's, 1925. 490pp. Johnny Fraser, the piney-woods hero of this classic novel of the Revolution in N. C, goes from Edenton to London, and in sentiment from Toryism to supporting John Paul Jones in his great sea battle. Boyd's historical realism and dimensional characters make this a great novel of its genre. (R.W.) Boyd 11

Long Hunt. 42 New York: Scribner's, 1930. 376pp. About 1801, because he could not be tied to civilization, trapper Murfree Rinnard left his mountain outpost of Hill Town, North Carolina, and the girl Laurel whom he loved. His adventures take him into Tennessee and westward. Hill Town, its rude buildings and polyglot population, are accurately described. (R.W.)

Marching On. 43 New York: Scribner's, 1927. 426pp.

James Fraser, small farmer who is descendant of Johnny Fraser of Drums, leaves his Cape Fear home to fight as an enlisted man for the Confederacy. He wins beautiful, aristocratic Stewart Prevost, though unable to save her river mansion "Beaumont" (below Orton) from Yankee destruction. Simple, lucid, dignified historical novel. (R.W.)

UNC has author's manuscript.

Mr. Hugh Dave MacWhirr Looks after His $1.00 Investment in 44 the Pilot Newspaper and Contributes Generously of His Time and Thoughts. Southern Pines: The Pilot, 1943. 64pp. Dialogue sketches between the editor of a country newspaper and an old clodhopper, who criticizes the government and everything else, and says what the editor wishes he had the "nerve" to say. Humor. (R.W.) Dr Fy UNC

Old Pines and Other Stories. 45 Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1952. 165pp. These ten expert short stories, mostly set against a North Carolina background, have such varied characters as fox-hunters, a small- town sheriff, deferential Negroes, the Yankee farmer who wishes to reform the South, the railroad man with his logging train, a macabre scientist, and others. (R.W.)

Brady, Cyrus Townsend, 1861-1920. 46

When Blades Are Out and Love's Afield. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1901. 305pp. Revolutionary Army officers Francis Duane and Curtis Baird tangle over the affections of Isabel Burton, daughter, and Sarah Burton, niece of Loyalist Justice Burton of Overbrook. General Nathanael 12 Brandon

Greene appears at intervals during the story. Duane finally marries the landless Sarah and Baird marries the rich daughter Isabel. (H.F.D.) DC DU ECC Rl UNC

Brandon, Evan L. 1908- 47

Green Pond. New York: Vanguard, 1955. 506pp. This family chronicle, from the Civil War to 1954, of the Thornwells of Green Pond [Gastonia] deals with a father and son, both doctors. In this impressive first novel, a vast panorama of character and event, is reflected a century of North Carolina's changing economy, its evolving social and religious life. (R.W.)

Brentano, Lowell. See Lancaster, Bruce

Brown, Nancy Keen. 48 A Broken Bondage. Boston: Roxburgh Pub. Co., 1911. 311pp. In this inept romantic melodrama by a Thomasville author, the remorseless lady-killing villain pursues a number of innocent females to their disaster. The scene moves from Camden, S. C, to Mobile, Chicago, Richmond, to a hospital in Charlotte, and to a mountain cottage in Saluda. (R.W.)

University of South Carolina Library

Bruce, Jerome. 49

Studies in Black and White. New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1906. 472pp.

Pro-slavery propaganda dominates this Civil War story. Lucy is the Yankee bride of Jack De Mar, wealthy Huguenot planter of eastern North or South Carolina. Poorly written, weak in characterization, the book is a series of loosely connected, generally improbable incidents. (M.C.H.)3 DU UNC

Brucker, Margaretta. 50

A Doctor for Barbara, by Margaret Howe, pseud. New York: Avalon Books, 1956. 224pp. Barbara Benson, gift shop operator in the Hilton General Hospital Bryant 13

[Asheville?], helps her friends find happiness and finds a doctor for herself. (V.W.P.)

Ab Al Dr UNC

Bryant, Henry Edward Cowan ("Red Buck"). 51

Tar Heel Tales. Charlotte: Stone & Barringer, 1910. 218pp. Often containing names of actual persons, these narrative sketches of the old-time "darkey," his loyalty, wit, odd dialect, and good nature are lacking in originality or distinction. The local color is heavy. (R.W.)

Buchan, John, 1875-1940. 52

Salute to Adventurers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917. 348pp. In this well-written adventure, Andrew Garvald, Scottish gentleman- merchant, organizes a spy and alarm system to protect colonial Virginia from surprise Indian attack while ostensibly travelling over the colony seeking trade. North Carolina figures when Andrew visits "Red Ringan" at pirate headquarters on the coast. (R.O.J.)

Sir Walter Raleigh. 53 London, New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., 1927. 188pp. Fictional biography of Sir Walter Raleigh recorded in the words of imagined friends and followers. (W.S.P.) AS Dr DU NCS SC SL UNC WC WsP

Buck, Charles Neville, 1879- 54

Flight to the Hills. Garden City: Doubleday, 1926. 348pp. Cynthia Meade leaves Asheville under suspicion in the death of Jack Harrison. In Kentucky she is involved in a family feud. Harrison eventually turns up and Cynthia must decide between two lovers. A mystery in mountain dialect. (V.W.P.)

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Burgwyn, Mebane Holoman, 1914- 55

Lucky Mischief. New York: Oxford University Press, 1949. 246pp. Allen Peck, a young Negro boy, has a pleasant home and loves animals. His rivalry in school and sports with Bailey Mitchell culminates at a stock show in Rocky Mount when Allen wins with his steer, Lucky Mischief, and he and Bailey become friends. (C.M.P.)

Moonjlower. 56 Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1954. 186pp. Finishing her junior year at coed Webster College in North Carolina, Julie Hudson spends the summer with her financially depressed family on a farm near Hudsonville, where she finds a new purpose in life and returns to college and to Ned on money borrowed from Negro neighbor Sam. Girls 14 up. (R.W.)

Penny Rose.* 57 New York: Oxford University Press, 1952. 223pp. On her eastern Carolina farm, Penny Rose must decide between her dreams of handsome Jeffrey and the realities of making a living from the soil. Managing a dilapidated farm and keeping her fatherless family together, she finds a future for herself. Beautifully written novel for girls 14-18. (R.W.)

River Treasure. 58 New York: Oxford University Press, 1947. 159pp. Guy, 12-year-old Negro boy living in the Occoneechee Neck of Northampton County, fishes and hunts and helps on the farm. The Negro farmers are driven away when the Roanoke River floods. Then Guy finds Confederate silver uncovered by the flood. Warm- ing story for ages 10-13. (R.W.)

True Love for Jenny. 59 Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1956. 189pp. At Barnsville High in the peanut-growing country east of Raleigh, 15-year-old Jenny Stewart faces a few troubling problems: her love for handsome Charlie, her disagreements with her mother, and her chairmanship of the Harvest Ball. Perceptive novel for girls 14-16. (R.W.)

Burke, Fielding, pseud. See Dargan, Olive Tilford

* Winner of the A.A.U.W. Award for juvenile literature, 1954. Burnett 15

Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924. 60

In Connection With the DeWilloughhy Claim. New York: American News Company, 1899. 445pp. After his brother steals his sweetheart, Thomas De Willoughby leaves home and becomes storekeeper-postmaster in a North Caro- lina mountain community. A mysterious stranger gives him a baby after the mother of the child dies. Years later his nephew seeks him out and falls in love with his ward, whose identity is eventually discovered. (E.W.H.)i

Louisiana. 61 New York: Scribner's, 1914. 298pp.

Louisiana Rogers, a quiet pretty mountain girl, vacations at Oakvale Springs [Hot Springs, Madison County?], where her naturalness is mistaken for sophistication. When her New York suitor unexpectedly discovers her real background, she is not ashamed. Good pictures of a fashionable spa and a crude, though prosperous mountain home. (R.W.) GUC Hk NCS Rl SL UNC

Surly Tim, and Other Stories. 62 New York: Scribner's, 1914. 298pp. In this collection of overly-sentimental, late nineteenth century stories, "Lodusky," sultry beauty of the North Carolina mountains, comes between Rebecca Noble, a New York artist, and her admirer, Ralph Lennox. In "Esmeralda" money from iron found in Western Carolina enables Esmeralda's social family to go to Paris to absorb culture. (M.L.P.) Av Ch Hk

Burnett, G. Lafayette. 63

Gap o' the Mountains. Knoxville: S. B. Newman, [1939], 123pp. Eighteen sketches of pioneers in the Great Smokies and Appalachian region, ranging from Old Joe Gann, who lived a century ago, to contemporary mountaineers. Told with delightful humor. (I.L.P.) Av

Burt, Katharine Newlin, 1882- 64

Beggars All. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1933. 242pp. 16 Burt

Candle Island off the coast of Carolina (but whether North Carolina or South Carolina is beyond this reader) is the scene of this light romance of adventure, love, and mystery. A gang war serves as background for the affair of proud Southerner Rafe Couvoisier and wealthy Yankee Hortense Kendall. (R.W.) Ch Dr Fc Hk Lb Rm SL Wm WnB

The Red Lady. 65 Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1920. 241pp. As housekeeper at a country place near Pine Cone [Southern Pines], red-haired Janice Gale becomes involved in a mystery concerning the theft of Russian ecclesiastical jewels. Trap doors, strange guests, and attempted murders keep the heroine in difficulties. An only slightly diverting suspense novel. (R.W.) SL UNC WC

Still Water. 66 Philadelphia: Macrea-Smith, 1948. 287pp. "Deep Branch runs through the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains." Nearby are the estates of the ancient feuding families, the Bairds and the Camerons. This is light reading—intrigue, suspense, romance, mystery. (R.W.)

Burt, Maxwell Struthers, 1882-1954. 67 They Could Not Sleep. New York: Scribner's, 1928. 323pp.

Only one of these ten stories is set in North Carolina. "Beauty and the Blantons" tells of several generations of New Englanders who owned a manor, Holy Oak, on the Cape Fear, where their azalea garden satisfied their need for beauty and "home," though they were often living elsewhere. (R.W.) Du ECC Gv UNC

Byrd, Sam, 1908-1955. 68

Hurry Home, to My Heart. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1945. 150pp. From the tobacco town of Laurel Hill [Mt. Olive?], sailor Rod Southerland goes away to war, takes part in D-day, then returns to his hometown girl Ardis Ann Andrews. This heavily styled story shows the disillusionment which follows the horrors of war. Many nostalgic small-town scenes. (R.W.) Camak 17

Camak, David English, 1880- 69

June of the Hills; the Junaluska Prize Novel, a Story of the Southern Mountains with Lake Junaluska, N. C, as the Center of Action. Lake Junaluska: Literary Department, Junaluska Woman's Club, 1927. 252pp. June Adair, a beautiful and deeply religious girl, gives up an operatic career to teach at home. Of two lovers, the worldly New York millionaire is the winner, after conversion in the Christian atmosphere of Lake Junaluska. (J.G.L.)

Campbell, Evelyn. 70

Survival. New York: Dial Press, 1928. 306pp. City-bred Maza Gray, acquitted of her husband's murder, takes refuge in the mountains and wins the natives' acceptance by befriending a motherless young girl. The time is the 1920's; the mountains possibly those of North Carolina. (E.M.) UNC

Campbell, Helen Jones. 71

The Story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Williamsburg: R. M. Usry, 1952. [24pp.] Youngsters ages 5-7 here learn in story form of the Raleigh colonists. There are many drawings (some of them based on John White's) for the young reader to color with his crayon. (R.W.) UNC

Canaday, Julia. 72

Big End of the Horn. New York: Vantage Press, 1956. 171pp. An autobiographical work, cast in a loose and episodic novel form, of the author's horse-and-buggy childhood in Dickson [Benson] and Brookfield [Smithfield], where Papa alternated between school- teaching and vigorous living. (R.W.)

Cannon, Brenda, pseud. See Moore, Bertha Belle

Carroll, Ruth, 1899- , and Latrobe Carroll. 73 Beanie. New York: Oxford University Press, 1953. unpaged. Carroll

Beanie and his dog, Tough Enough, hunt bears in Western North Carolina. (V.W.P.) UNC

Digby the Only Dog* 74 New York: Oxford, 1955. 47pp. Digby, the only dog on Ocracoke, has cats, ponies, geese, ducks and chickens for his friends, but longs for dogs. The arrival of a boat- load finally solves his problem. Humorous story for young children, excellent illustrations furnishing much information about Ocracoke. (B.R.)

Peanut.^ 75 New York: Oxford, 1951. 48pp. The tiny dog Peanut lives happily with Donald in a city apartment in Asheville, until the family moves to the country and acquires a Great Dane. Jealous Peanut runs away, but eventually is restored to Donald and learns to love the Great Dane. Ages 8-10. (M.B.)2

Salt and Pepper. 76 New York: Oxford, 1952. 32pp. Illus. by Ruth Carroll. Carroll. Pepper, a black-haired boy with a temper, owns Salt, a white- haired puppy with a good temper. As the time approaches for Pepper to move away from his home and friends to a new location, Pepper's temper becomes worse. In the bustle of moving day, Salt is lost and in the ensuing search, Salt and Pepper make many new friends and Pepper's temper improves. Ages 8-10. (M.B.)2

WC has author's manuscript.

Tough Enough. 77 New York: Oxford, 1954. 64pp. Illus. by Ruth Carroll.

Tough Enough is Beanie Tatum's dog. His mischief leads to exciting and dangerous adventures involving the entire Tatum family. There are many beautiful and detailed illustrations of the Great Smoky Mountains and the mountain folk. Ages 8-12. (B.R.)

Tough Enough's Pony. 78 New York: Oxford, 1956. 64pp. At Beanie Tatum's great-grandparents' fishing camp on Shackleford Banks (Carteret County), the dog Tough Enough finds a sick wild

* Winner of the A.A.U.W. Award for juvenile literature, 1955. t Winner of the A.A.U.W. Award for juvenile literature, 1953. Carroll 19

pony, Sassy Boy, in a secluded cedar thicket. All the family join in nursing him back to health. Beautifully illustrated. Ages 7-11. (RW.)

Tough Enough's Trip. 79

New York: Oxford, 1956. 64pp. Beanie Tatum's dog, Tough Enough, stows away in the family truck as the Tatums leave their mountain farm to visit relatives on the Outer Banks. Beanie and the dog find animal friends along the way who join them for the trip. (V.W.P.) UNC

Carter, Herbert. 80

The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge, or Marooned Among the Moon- shiners. New York: Burt, 1913. 253pp. Eight Boy Scouts from the North, one of whom grew up in the Blue Ridge, spend the summer hiking and camping in the North Carolina mountains. They encounter moonshiners, rescue two captives, explain Scouting, and reform the region's most notorious bootlegger. (W.S.P.) DU

Carter, Mary Nelson. 81

North Carolina Sketches: Phases of Life Where the Galax Grows. Chicago: McClurg, 1900. 313pp. These seventeen mountain dialect tales are recorded by a Northern "boarder" who has become condescendingly friendly with the "eccentric" natives she has "discovered." The dialect is poorly done, and the author shows no understanding of the mountain people. Good example of local-color writing by eager but unintelligent outsider. (R.W.)

Cartrette, Anna Gaskill. 82 The Awakening. Wilmington: Wilmington Printing Co., 1921. 167pp. Katherine Mattox accepts a position as governess in the Wiley home in Boston where she brings a "worldly" family back into the church and marries the brother of her employer. Asheville is mentioned on occasion. (K.E.H.) SL WC Wm 20 Castlemon

Castlemon, Harry, pseud. See Fosdick, Charles Austin

Chambers, Robert William, 1865-1933. 83

The Mystery Lady. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1925. 335pp. This adventure story of treasure-hunters off False Cape, N. C, in 1921 is centered on the sunken pirate ship Half Moon, located by means of a map in Mayan hieroglyphics. The author is not compli- mentary to coastal scenes and natives, but has an authentic episode of duck-hunting from a blind. (R.W.) UNC

The Rogue's Moon. 84 New York: Appleton & Co., 1928. 275pp. Stories of piracy as told by a seventeen year old boy, indentured at the villainous Lost Sail Tavern. Nancy Topsfield's identity goes undiscovered except by Jack Ross who is veered from piracy by Nancy and joins the King's men to drive the cutthroats from colonial shores. Topsail Inlet and the North Carolina coast are pictured. (R.O.J.) Dr NCS Rm UNC Wm

Chapman, John S. H., and Mary Chapman. 85

Rogue's March, by Maristan Chapman, pseud. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1949. 384pp. Adventures of Lantry Ward, a Whig express runner during the Revolution, include escapes from his Tory captors, fighting at Kings Mountain, and the successful wooing of Margaret Brooke of Rogue's March. The setting is South Carolina, Western North Carolina, and Tennessee. (C.L.F.)

Chapman, Maristan, pseud. See Chapman, John S. H. and Mary Chapman

Chapman, Mary. See Chapman, John S. H.

Chase, James Hadley, pseud. See Raymond, Rene"

Chase, Richard. 86

Grandfather Tales, American-English Folk Tales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1948. 240pp. Chase 21

Twenty-five Appalachian mountain folk tales, eight of which came directly from North Carolina sources. (F.B.)

Jack and the Three Sillies. 87 Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950. 39pp. Jack sets out to sell or trade his cow for $50 but returns home, after several swaps, with a stone. His wife goes out to find three men as silly as Jack and get $50. She succeeds in finding three sillies and recouping the money. (F.B.)

The Jack Tales, Told by R. M. Ward and His Kindred in the 88 Beech Mountain Section of Western North Carolina and by Other Descendants of Council Harmon (1803-1896). Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1900. 294pp. Eighteen folk tales from the North Carolina mountains all dealing with the adventures of simple Jack who always comes out on top. (F.B.)

Wicked John and the Devil. 89 Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1951. 40pp. Mountain folk tale. For his hospitality to St. Peter, Blacksmith Wicked John is given three wishes which he uses to outwit the devil. The devil refuses to let John into hell but gives him a chunk of fire "to start a hell of his own" in the Great Dismal Swamp. (D.B.T.)

Chesnutt , Charles Waddell,* 1858-1932. 90

The Colonel's Dream. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1905. 294pp. A Confederate veteran, rich Colonel Henry French, revisits deterio- rating Clarendon [Fayetteville] in the 1890s, falls in love with the old place, and decides to remain and promote industry and education. His espousal of the Negro enrages the rising "po' whites." His ideals shattered, he leaves in disillusionment. (R.W.) DU NCC RpM SL UNC WnB

The Conjure Woman. 91 Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1901. 329pp. Julius, ex-slave, relates seven folk tales in dialect to a white North- ener who has settled near Patesville [Fayetteville] to raise grapes. All stories, both humorous and tragic, are of conjuring: for example,

* For a short story by him see under Clarence Addison Hibbard, and for a novel based on one of his short stories see under Oscar Micheaux. 22 Chestntjtt

the tale of Po' Sandy, who was changed into a tree to avoid working. One of the first books by a Negro author to receive critical approval. (R.W.)

The House behind the Cedars. 92 Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1901. 323pp. In the late 1860's, octoroon John Walden and his beautiful sister Rena have passed the "color line" in South Carolina. In Patesville [unquestionably Fayetteville] visiting her Negro mother, Rena's "secret" is discovered by her aristocratic betrothed, and the engagement broken. An effective propaganda novel on the tragic effects of miscegenation. (R.W.)

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The Marrow of Tradition. 93 Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1901. 329pp. Wellington [Wilmington at the time of the race riots of November 10, 1898] is the scene of this exciting propaganda novel which pleads for fair treatment for Negroes. All the whites are prejudiced, even kind Major Carteret, whose wife is half-sister to the mulatto wife of an educated Negro doctor. (R.W.)

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The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line. 94 Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1901. 323pp. Some of these melodramatic stories—"The Sheriff's Children," "Cicely's Dream," "Uncle Wellington's Wives," "The Bouquet," and "The Web of Circumstance"—are set in North Carolina. Chesnutt is studying the tragic consequences for the Negro who comes into contact with the white man's world. Miscegenation, murder, and lynching are themes. (R.W.) Av DU SC SL UNC

Chevalier, Elizabeth Pickett. 95

Drivin' Woman. New York: Macmillan, 1942. 652pp. America Moncure, the drivin' woman, managed the family plantation after the Civil War. A move to Kentucky and husband trouble are part of the story—tobacco, from planting to smoking including finances and manufacturing, is the rest. Tugger Blake [James B. Duke?] is a character. (W.Bft.) Cheyney 23

Cheyney, Edward Green. 96

Scott Burton in the Blue Ridge. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1924. 268pp. Simply-written, straightforward account of a mysterious feud in the 1920's in the Blue Ridge Mountains. One of a series of stories about Scott Burton, field representative in the U. S. Forestry Service. The author is an authority on forestry. Ages 8-12. (P.B.M.) UNC

Child, Frank Samuel. 97

An Unknown Patriot; A Story of the Secret Service. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1899. 396pp.

North Carolina is mentioned only once in this exciting Revolutionary War story of New England. Scattered references throughout to Governor Tryon. Junior high level. (P.B.M.) UNC

Churchill, Winston, 1871-1947. 98

The Crossing. New York: Macmillan, 1904. 598pp. David Ritchie, hero of this story of the Kentucky frontier's part in the Revolution, first lives in the Carolina Blue Ridge. After adventures as drummer boy with George Rogers Clark and witnessing the capture of John Sevier, state of Franklin's champion, David studies law, marries, and returns to the frontier. (K.W.H.)

Clark, Charles Dunning, 1843-1892. 99

Big Foot, the Guide; or, The Surveyors. A Tale of the Carolina Settlements, by W. J. Hamilton, pseud. New York: Beadle and Co., 1866. 91pp.

A thrilling story of Henry [i.e., John] Lawson, Baron De Graffenreid, and the Tuscarora Indian war in 1712 in northeastern North Caro- lina. Swarms of shouting Indians, colonists fighting from a block- house, and the nick-of-time arrival of Col. John Barnwell all have authentic ring. (W.S.P.) UNC 24 Clarvoe

Clarvoe, Frank Auld, 1896- 100 The Wonderful Way. New York: Holt, 1956. 416pp. Shocked at losing his mother during his senior year at the Univer- sity [of North Carolina], Wilford Hollester enters the ministry. Personal and professional problems at Episcopal seminary and as minister to mill town missions [Mayoden, Madison, Walnut Cove] make him a better man and help answer the question as to why he chose this way of life. Bishop Alshire is Bishop Cheshire. (V.W.P.) UNC

Clemens, Jeremiah, 1814-1865. 101

Mustang Gray: a Romance. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1858. 296pp. In 1832 in the "dense pine forests which skirt Cape Fear river," Mabry Gray, a real person known to the realistic Alabama novelist, kills his rival and escapes to Texas where he leads his Rangers in smuggling and border raids. "Mustang" Gray died a patriot hero in 1847. (R.W.) DU Mg

Cleveland, Mr. See Prevost, Antoine Francois

Clinkscales, John George, 1855- 102

How Zach Came to College. Boston: Educational Pub. Co., 1904. 174pp. Zach Whetstone, inspired by the commencement exercises at Wofford College in the 1870s, overcomes many difficulties to obtain a college education, returning finally to Rutherford County to marry Katie and start a high school. "Labor omnia vincet." (J.H.S.) Av DU Ty

COATSWORTH, ELIZABETH JANE, 1893- 103

Aunt Flora. New York: Macmillan, 1953. 64pp. In spite of Flora Macdonald's loyalty to the King, her small 10-year- old niece Nepsie helps two patriots to escape. Campbellton [Fayette- Cobb 25

ville] in 1776 is the scene of this historial story for the 7-to-10-year- olds. (R.W.)

Cobb, Darius, 1834-1919. 104

Adeline Desmond: or, The Spy of Newbern. A story of the war. Boston: Office of American Union, Flag of Our Union, and Dollar Monthly, 1868. 41pp. During the Federal occupation of Newbern in 1862, the beautiful Adeline Desmond's life is threatened three times. She is three times rescued; once by her fiance, once by an unknown benefactor, and the last time by her uncle. The villain, Lt. Frey, a spy for the Confederacy, has all the attributes of a satanic character. (M.H.L.) Av UNC

Cobb, Lucy Maria, 1877- , and Mary A. Hicks.* 105

Animal Tales from the Old North State. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1938. 200pp.

The book is divided into seven sections, each one a series of short animal stories from Johnston, Wake, Wilson, and Lenoir Counties. The antics of Brer Rabbit, Brer Camel, Brer Deer, Brer Man, etc., are told by Negro storytellers, none of whom ever read Joel Chandler Harris. (D.D.)

Cochran, Hamilton, 1898- 106

Rogue's Holiday. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1947. 297pp. Robert Maynard, British naval officer, taken prisoner by Blackbeard and later shipwrecked with him off the North Carolina coast, proves that Blackbeard is giving information to the Spanish and that he is being protected by Governor Eden. With aid from Virginia, Maynard fights and kills the pirate. (K.W.H.)

Coleman, Sara Lindsay. See Porter, Sara Lindsay Coleman

Colony, Horatio, 1900- 107

Free Forester: A Novel of Kentucky. Boston: Little, Brown, 1935. 302pp.

* For a short story by her see under William C. Hendricks. 26 COLTON

A lusty, non-traditional tale of Harley Boydley, who leaves a West- ern North Carolina farm for the more rugged frontier. With other adventurers, in the years shortly before and during the Revolution, he ranges through the Kentucky forest, fights Indians, settles temporarily in villages, and then moves to less populated areas. (H.T.T.) Ch DU Gb UNC

Colton, Arthur Willis, 1868- 108

Bennie Ben Cree: Being the Story of His Adventures to Southward in the Year '62. New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1900. 138pp. A Yankee lad effects the beaching and destruction of a Confederate privateer on the sandbanks, then escapes northward to Federal ships in Hampton Roads by way of "Redwood," on the sparsely settled North Carolina mainland, and the Dismal Swamp Canal. Well- written novelette for adults of a boy's adventure. (R.W.) UNC

Colver, Alice Ross. 109

There Is a Season. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1957. 306pp. Mary Martin visits the Aaron Burrs in Newark, Princetown, and New York in 1812. She marries Nicholas Fanshaw, New York peddler, gambler, and thief. They drive to New Bern, where he abandons her. Rescued by her brother Matt, of the Prudence, she eventually marries Alexander MacDonald. (M.P.F.) UNC

Connolly, Paul, pseud. See Wicker, Thomas Gray

Conrad, Earl, 1906- 110

Gulf Stream North. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1954. 253pp. Bix, mate aboard the old menhadener, "The Moona Waa Togue," tells the story of five tense, exciting days as the crew and Captain Crother hunt Atlantic coastal waters for "pogy" to bring in to port to the "big boss," Merrick Thorpe. (M.K.T.) Dr DU Gb Lk SL UNC Ws CONVAL 27

Conval, Ronleigh de, pseud. See Pollock, John Alfred

Corby, Ruth Rosemary. Ill

Heart's Haven. New York: Arcadia House, 1939. 256pp. Strange caretakers, hidden rooms, and fur smugglers abound in this light, slight mystery-romance set on an island off the coast of "North Carolina." The island, with its enormous boulders and pebbly beaches, could better have been said to have been in Massachusetts or California. (R.W.) Dr DU Hk Rm UNC

Gotten, Bruce, 1873-1954. 112

The Mirrors of Bensboro. Cylburn [Baltimore, Md.,: The Author], 1925. 36pp. Old Uncle Ben tells how the mirrors of Bensboro, a handsome plantation home before the Civil War near Tarboro, caused its destruction by fire in 1895. (C.S.L.) ECC UNC Wm WnB

Crabtree, Carrie Martin. 113

Kindred Spirits. Bear Creek, N. C: Beacon Printers, n.d. 87pp. Account of the romances of the three Dillingham children of Greens- boro in the 1930's. Poorly written in the pious style of Christian fiction. (P.B.M.) UNC

Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. See Murfree, Mary Noailles

Cranford, E. Wade. 114 Second Awakening. New York: Vantage Press, 1956. 186pp.

Tony is the only surviving member of his family when his drunken father kills the other members of the family. With the aid of an understanding teacher, he overcomes the prejudice his mountain background placed in his way. In spite of the violent scenes, Second Awakening is a tender story. (A.L.Y.) 28 Craven

Craven, Braxton, 1822-1882. 115

Mary Barker, a Thrilling Story of the Early Settlement of Randolph County, by Charlie Vernon, pseud. Ashborough: R. H. Brown, 1851. 32pp. William Gatlin seeks revenge on John Barker for marrying Mary, his former sweetheart. He spirits away Mary and her three children, but friendly Indians rescue and return them. John is freed from the accusation of murder, and William is punished. (C.J.P.) DU Gs SL UNC

Naomi Wise, or The Wrongs of a Beautiful Girl, 116 by Charlie Vernon, pseud. Pinnacle: W. C. Phillips, n.d. 27pp. Hot-headed Jonathan Lewis of colonial Randolph County loves orphan Naomi Wise. Avarice leads him to betray her and woo wealthy Hetty Elliott. He drowns Naomi in the river and escapes to Ohio but years later is captured and brought to justice in Randolph. The language is flowery. (C.J.P.) DU Gs SL UNC

Credle, Ellis, 1902- 117

Across the Cotton Patch. New York: Nelson, 1935. 44pp. Nancy Elizabeth and her brother Billy enjoy playing with the Negro twins, Atlantic and Pacific. They get into trouble riding the hogs and chewing tobacco, but redeem themselves by taking good care of the [Nash County] farm while their parents are in town. Difficult reading because of extreme Negro dialect. Ages 8-12. (F.B.Y.)

The Adventures of Tittletom. 118 New York: Oxford, 1949. 79pp. A good story for small children, about Tittletom, a michievous five- year-old boy, and his favorite sister Bet. They live on a farm down South [probably North Carolina] and have some unusual experiences involving goldfish, a goat, a skunk, and a fishing trip with old "Uncle Bow." (F.B.Y.)

Down, Down the Mountain. 119 New York: Nelson, 1934. 35pp. This picture book, illustrated by the author, tells how Hetty and Credle 29

Hank, Blue Ridge mountain children, get the shoes they so wish for by winning a contest at the fair. Ages 6-8. (F.B.Y.)

The Flop-Eared Hound. 120 New York: Oxford, 1938. 27pp. Shadrack Meshack Abednego Jones, better known as little Boot-jack, is a Negro boy (on an Eastern North Carolina plantation) who adopts a lonely little hound dog. The hound is so troublesome that he is given away many times. Finally, by saving little Boot-jack's life, he earns a permanent home. (F.B.Y.)

The Goat That Went to School. 121 New York: Grossett & Dunlap, 1940. 24pp. Delightful story about a boy [in the North Carolina mountains] who is given a goat in payment for picking apples and feels obliged to take the michievous animal to school with him. Ages 6-8. (J.H.N.)

Here Comes the Showboat. 122 New York: Nelson, 1949. 95pp. When the showboat poster announces a five-dollar prize contest for the best song, Chris and Lucy Gale, who live in the Lowlands on the Pasquotank River, raise their hopes above the small earnings their frogs and eggs bring. Their adventurous search for an original song makes a delightful, picturesque story. Ages 6-8. (K.W.H.)

Janey's Shoes. 123 New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1944. 28pp. Three children climb the steep rocky road to Granny's house on a North Carolina mountain. They hear the story from her of her first trip up the trail when she was a little girl. It took courage to follow that trail, but Granny and her parents had the fortitude to undertake the journey. Ages 6-8. (R.O.J.)

Johnny and His Mule. 124

New York: Oxford, 1946. [44] pp. In Horny Hollow of the Great Smoky Mountains, the teacher helps Johnny coax home a balking mule that he has bought at an auction for five cents by holding an ear of corn just out of reach. Johnny's father uses the same strategy to induce the mule to plow. Ages 6-8. (K.W.H.) 30 Credle

Little Jeemes Henry. 125 New York: Nelson, 1936. 44pp. Jeemes Henry helps his Mammy on their eastern North Carolina farm when Pappy goes to town to work. He wants to go to the circus and after several unsuccessful attempts to earn money, he finally gets there. He discovers Pappy working for the circus and gets to meet all the people. Ages 6-8. (V.W.P.) UNC

Pig-o-Wee, The Story of a Skinny Mountain Pig. 126 New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1936. 44pp.

Pig-o-Wee is too skinny for the storekeeper to accept in trade for a "tune box," but she produces something he will accept and thereby earns not only the gratitude of all the mountain folk but extra food for herself as well. (W.S.P.) UNC

Tall Tales from the High Hills. 127 New York: Nelson, 1957. 156pp. These comic legendary yarns, many of the twenty adventures by an old-time storyteller from the Blue Ridge, are mostly fantastic "tall tales" with a generous folklore coloring. Animals have important roles. Two have been previously published: "The Goat That Went to School" and "Janey's Shoes." Ages 9 up. (R.W.)

Crittenden, Edward B., pseud. 128

The Entwined Lives of Miss Gabrielle Austin, Daughter of the Late Rev. Ellis C. Austin and of Redmond, the Outlaw, Leader of the North Carolina "Moonshiners." Philadelphia: Barclay and Co., 1879. 44pp. Gabrielle Austin, falsely accused of theft, is rescued by outlaw moonshiner Redmond. She refuses to marry him even after her lover is captured, so Redmond frees them and he remains king of the North Carolina outlaws. (W. Bft.) Av DU SL UNC WnB

Culbertson, Anne Virginia. 129

At the Big House: Where Aunt Nancy and Aunt 'Phrony Held Forth on the Animal Folks. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1904. 348pp. D., R. K. 31

Of the 50 stories in Negro dialect, 27 are North Carolina animal tales of Cherokee and Creek origin. In humorous little Uncle-Remus-like narratives, Aunt 'Phrony tells about the Hare, the Wildcat, the Bear, the Fox, and others. (R.W.) UNC

D., R. K. See Dunlap, Roberta K.

Dabbs, Mrs. Ethel Thomas.* 130

Alice in Blunderland. Charlotte: Clark Publishing Co., n.d. 233pp. In an unrealistic story, Marco Mills, probably in Gastonia, late 1920's, prospers under paternalistic Hugo Marco until Communists disrupt operations and separate sweethearts Ted Bristow and Alice Avery. Influenced by organizer Dan Forrest, Alice works for the union until, revolted by dishonest methods, she helps rid Marco Mills of Communism. (V.J.H.) Ch

Driven From Home. 131 Charlotte: Clark Publishing Company, n.d. 245pp. Neither a good mother nor a Christian wife can change John Elgricel, a drunkard, who drives his wife and baby daughter from home. Granny Elgricel takes the three sons to care for. Years later the boys find their sister four years after their mother's death. (M.H.) Ch WC

A Man Without a Friend. 132 Charlotte: Clark Publishing Co., n.d., 96pp. Having served ten years in prison for another's crime, Richard Moreland comes to 1920 Carlotto (Charlotte?), North Carolina, seeking revenge. A little boy, his lovely mother, Violet Orton, and an unrealistic series of events help him to overcome his bitterness and find the love he thought could never be his. (B.W.D.) Ch

Tangled Threads. 133 Charlotte: Clark Publishing Co., 1951. 187pp. A colorless, melodramatic story, full of cliches, concerning Calvin

* For other works by her see under Ethel Thomas. 32 Dabbs

Roberts' involved marriage affairs. After many complications and a change of heart, Cal accepts his son by Polly Smith and paves the way for happiness for all concerned. There are some scenes in Greensboro around 1920. (V.J.H.) Ch

Truth Crushed to Earth. 134 Charlotte: Clark Publishing Company, n.d. 256pp. A sentimental story of a young girl who is rescued from unpleasant surroundings by a young preacher, whom she later marries. The setting is presumably the Piedmont section and Asheville during the time of the first World War. (M.M.H.) Ch WC

Daniel, James Walter, 1856- 135

The Girl in Checks; or, The Mystery of the Mountain Cabin. Columbia, S. C: L. L. Pickett, 1892. 208pp. Saccharine, old fashioned stories of a South Carolina minister's activities in setting up a church in the Flat Rock area of the North Carolina mountains. (P.B.M.) UNC

Daniels, Lucy Cathcart, 1934- 136

Caleb, My Son. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1956. 125pp. In Milltown [Raleigh?] just after the Supreme Court decision in 1954, Asa Blake, a Negro conservative, clashes with his son Caleb over "segergation" and equality. This tragic short novel, pleading no cause, ably delineates the situation among the Negroes of the mid-1950s. (R.W.)

UNC has author's manuscript.

Darby, Ada Claire, 1883- 137

Island Girl. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1951. 215pp. Carolina Leigh, 14 years old, lives on the Outer Banks with her grandmother, has tamed a wild pony, and rescued a cat from a Dargan 33

shipwreck. Her uncle moves them to New Bern where Carolina becomes involved with the Patriots in the Revolution. Ages 12-16. (K.E.H.)

Dargan, Olive Tilford.* 138

Call Home the Heart, by Fielding Burke, pseud. New York: Longmans, Green, 1932. 432pp. Looking for fulfillment, Ishma Waycaster leaves her beloved Smoky Mountains to work in the textile mills of Winbury [Gastonia]. During a strike she learns about Communism and envisions a good life not controlled by money and might. Once defeated, she returns to the hills to regain strength. Proletarian novel, always moving, often powerful. (R.W.)

From My Highest Hill. 139 Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1941. 221pp. A revision of the eight stories in Highland Annals, plus the addition of a ninth, "Uncle Hiram's Cure." Contains fifty mountain photographs by Bayard Wootten. (R.W.)

Highland Annals. 140 New York: Scribner's, 1935. 286pp. These eight beautifully written Smoky Mountain stories are about such matters as the bee tree, wild hogs, and rattlesnake whiskey; but mainly they are authentic character studies of the hill people. Of all the local-color writing about the North Carolina mountain folk, these stories are doubtless the most distinguished. (R.W.)

A Stone Came Rolling, by Fielding Burke, pseud. 141 New York: Longmans, Green, 1935. 412pp. Sequel to Call Home the Heart. Ishma, now married and living on the outskirts of Dunmow in the Piedmont, is mill worker, then relief worker, finally strike organizer. She preaches against capitalism and superstitious religion. Gains for workers are made, but the struggle is not over. Burdened with sociological propaganda. (R.W.)

Davidson, Chalmers Gaston, 1907- 142

Cloud Over Catawba. Charlotte: Mecklenburg Historical Society, 1949. 210pp. In the early 1800's Alexander Mcintosh built elaborate "Priscilla's

* For a short story by her see under Clarence Addison Hibbard. 34 Davis

Price," a symbol of pride for his wife. Mecklenburg and Lincoln counties are the settings; and local people, as the Polks, Alexanders, and Grahams are minor characters in this conflict between Calvin- istic mores and the increasing wealth of the plantation era. (C.G.D.)

Davis, Burke, 1913- 143

The Ragged Ones. New York: Rinehart & Co., 1951. 336pp. The realistic story of the ragged Continental Army from the Battle of Cowpens through the Piedmont and the Battle of Guilford Court House, interwoven with the somewhat unconventional love story of John Blount and Anna Graham. Cornwallis, Greene, Morgan, Davidson, and other Revolutionary officers appear in colorful character. (Includes campaign maps). (C.G.D.)

"WC has author's manuscript.

Roberta E. Lee: The Sad But Almost True Story of the Rabbit 144 Who Longed To Be Prettier Than Scarlett O'Hara or Anybody Else. Winston-Salem: John F. Blair, 1956. Unpaged. In Barefoot County ("strangely like our own Chatham," says author) a Southern-belle rabbit loses the Beauty Contest to Sassy Jassy Fox. The satire will be most appreciated by adults, though this is published as a juvenile for ages 10 and up. (R.W.)

Whisper My Name. 145 New York: Rinehart, 1949. 282pp. To Elizabeth [Charlotte] in 1910 comes a harassed Philadelphia Jew, who conceals his identity, changes his name, joins the Baptist church, prospers in business, and makes a suitable marriage. His sympathy for oppressed minorities leads him into awkward situations. He finally discovers that his secret has been known all along. (R.W.)

Davis, Harold Lenoir, 1896- 146

Beulah Land. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1949. 314pp. A plain but often powerful narrative of the long, hazardous journey (1840-1865) of a half-Indian girl, Ruhama, and white Askwani. Starting from Cherokee Crow Town in Western North Carolina, the couple go up and down the Mississippi River and then to their own Beulah Land, the government-owned Indian Territory. (H.T.T.) Dean 35

Dean, Benjamin Hawkins. 147

Skull Mountain, by Dean Hawkins, pseud. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1941. 275pp. A ghost, a disinterment, and three murders at Endor and its valley ["a composite of all the Western North Carolina towns and valleys I've seen," writes the author], a section dominated by Skull Moun- tain, upset the routine of the natives as well as a group of fashionable folk. (R.W.) UNC Wm de Conval, Ronleigh, pseud. See Pollock, John Alfred

De La Torre, Lillian, 1902- 148

The White Rose of Stuart. New York: Nelson, 1954. 214pp. Flora Macdonald, a member of one of the Scottish clans loyal to Charles Edward Stuart, the "Bonnie Prince," considered by some clans as their rightful king, helps to rescue the young fugitive Prince from the soldiers of George II. Only a small part of the story takes place in North Carolina, about 1745. (M.C.H.)i

DeLeon, Thomas Cooper, 1839-1914. 149

Juny: or Only One Girl's Story. A Romance of the Society Crust—Upper and Under. Mobile: Gossip Printing Co., 1890. 271pp. The first chapters are set at Hicksville, "the metropolis of Black Mountain," on the border of Tennessee and North Carolina. The girl Juny, of unknown parentage, is being reared by moonshiners. When they threaten to hang two gentlemanly visitors, Juny provides them an escape and is adopted by her new friends. (R.W.) LC

Demarest, Phyllis Gordon. 150

The Wilderness Brigade. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1957. 356pp. Roark Banning buys his escape from Salisbury Prison during the Civil War with money sent from California. At Herrick Hall near Statesville he forces Beau Herrick and his sister to take him to a 36 Devereux

band of Confederate deserters in the mountains. Romance and divided loyalties complete the story. (M.P.F.) UNC

Devereux, Margaret. 151

Plantation Sketches. Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside Press, 1906. 169pp. Though "prepared originally with no thought of publication," these semi-fictional sketches of the large Devereux plantations along the Roanoke River in Bertie County are warmly written reminiscences of the "good old times." Among the best is "Mammy," about a slave's attempt to rescue her young master from the Yankees. (R.W.) DU ECC NCS Rl RpM SL UNC

Dickson, Sallie O'Hear, -1916. 152

Howard McPhlinn. A Story for Boys. Richmond, Va.: Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1897. 206pp. A moralistic archaic tale (largely in difficult dialect) of Howard McPhlinn, a run-away from home in the 1870's, sheltered by aged Eben and Mary Ann Holt on a Buncombe County farm. Following vindication of an attempted murder, Howard was befriended by Colonel Neilson, who financed his schooling in Baltimore. (R.M.K.) Av Ch DU Rl SL

Ralph Fabian's Mistakes. 153 New York: Broadway Publishing Co., 1908. 176pp. In this Victorian, first novel to use a Davidson College setting, Ralph Fabian's original mistake is the borrowing of fifty cents from his college class treasury. Stubbornly refusing to defend himself, Ralph is eventually helped by a mountain missionary toward reconcilia- tions with his father and his girl alike. (C.G.D.) DC Rl SL UNC

Reuben Delton, Preacher: A Sequel to "The Story of Marthy/' 154 Richmond: Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1900. 296pp. Further Christian adventures of Marthy and her pastor-husband Reuben. Reuben's service in the Asheville Presbytery culminates in the building of a church, made possible by Marthy's old friends at Blowing Rock. (M.C.)2 Av Gb Rl SL UNC Dickson 37

The Story of Marthy. 155 Richmond: The Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1898. 269pp. Marthy, a twelve-year-old Watauga County girl, goes to Skyland Institute, there learns the principles of Christian living, and returns to teach her people, marrying a young farmer with ministerial aspirations. The story, laid in the late 19th century, accurately reflects the sentiments of its author, a South Carolinian who taught school for thirty years in Charlotte and Winston-Salem. (M.C.)2

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Dillard, Richard, 1857-1928. 156

A Curious Experience with the Tombstone of a Pirate. [Edenton, 1906.] 7pp. In Edenton the tombstone of the pirate Don Registo Ollivera, 1660- 1705, is transplanted. Strange things happen, including the appearance of a ghost, till the stone is returned to its original location. A brief episode. (R.W.) SL UNC

Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946. 157

The Black Hood. New York: Appleton, 1924. 336pp. Independence [Charlotte], 20 miles from the Blue Ridge, is scene in 1871 of strife among Confederate veterans, carpetbaggers, scalawags, Ku Klux Klansmen, and others. When the scalawag judge is murdered, John Craig is accused. He fights against a hoodlum- reorganized KKK and wins the judge's daughter. Novel protests Klan's revival. (R.W.)

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The Clansman. An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan. 158 New York: Doubleday, Page, 1905. 374pp. Though set in Washington, D. C, and Piedmont, S. C, this second of Dixon's "Triology of Reconstruction" (The Leopard's Spots is first) recalls conditions in North Carolina. It presents the evils of the Reconstruction regime and the final victory of the Ku Klux Klan. (R.W.)

The Leopard's Spots. A Romance of the White 159 Man's Burden—1865-1900. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1902. 465pp. 38 Dixon

Shifting from Hambright [Shelby] to Independence [Charlotte] to Raleigh, this propaganda work presents a series of jailings, parades, wild rides, rapes, murders, lynchings, mass meetings, carpetbagger expulsions, Negro uprisings, and Ku Klux Klan house-burnings. Charles Gaston wins his girl and the governorship after his white- hot speech on White Supremacy. (R.W.)

The Root of Evil. 160 New York: Doubleday, Page, 1911. 407pp. This sterotyped propaganda novel [1898-1907] concerns the evil American millionaire whose fortune comes from the sweat of poorly paid workers. An incorruptible North Carolina lawyer in New York loses his fiancee to his money-mad poor-white friend. A few chapters are set at a French chateau in North Carolina [Biltmore House?]. (R.W.) Av Bk BwR Dr DU Mg Rl SL UNC WnB

The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South. 161 New York: D. Appleton, 1912. 462pp. During Reconstruction and later in Capitol city [Raleigh] editor Dan Norton champions White Supremacy, though he has himself formed an extramarital relationship with an octoroon. In the next genera- tion, an atmosphere of miscegenation and incest make tragic the lives of Norton's son and his ward. Melodrama of racial conflict. (R.W.) Dr DU ECC Kn Rl Sm SL UNC Wm

The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire. 162 New York: Doubleday, Page, 1907. 331pp. This third of the "Triology of Reconstruction" shows the dissolution of the Klan when it falls into the hands of unprincipled leaders. In Independence [Charlotte?], John Graham fights both scalawags and KKK ruffians, is accused of murder, then wins the scalawag Judge's daughter. Tone rather vicious. (R.W.)

Dodge, Constance Woodbury, 1896- 163

The Dark Stranger. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1940. 439pp. The failure of the final effort to restore a Stuart to the throne of England brought many Scottish settlers to America. Among these is Lachlan MacLean, who settles at Cross Creek (now Fayette- ville). In particular this is the story of Dugald, the younger son who is the Dark Stranger of the title. (L.G.H.) ;

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Weathercock. 164 New York: Dodd, Mead, 1942. 370pp. In Revolutionary times, aristocratic Carrington Pryde, of a luxurious plantation on west bank of the Cape Fear [Brunswick County], sides with backwoods patriots and fights with Greene. Scene shifts from Wilmington to Hillsboro, from Alamance to Guilford Court House. Weathercock is Carrington, vacillating between his heritage and the new democracy. Well-written historical novel. (R.W.)

Dorrance, Ethel, and James Dorrance. 165

Flames of the Blue Ridge. New York: The Macauley Company, 1919. 342pp. Calvin Park, alcoholic New York artist, comes to the North Carolina mountains in an effort to stop drinking and finds himself mistaken for a revenue officer and involved in a hunt for amethysts. The time is the turn of the century; the style readable. (M.B.J.) UNC

Dorrance, James. See Dorrance, Ethel

Douglass, John Jordan, 1875-1940. 166

The Girdle of the Great. New York: Broadway Publishing Co., 1908. 197pp. Jerome Watkins, heir to a North Carolina Civil War plantation, finds winning Maxine McDonald and recovering the family fortune are complicated by the active opposition of Gabriel Allen. A lawyer friend, helps him secure an education (the "girdle of the great") and after Gabriel shoots Maxine's father, Jerome and Maxine are married. (L.R.W.)

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Dowdy, Clifford, 1904- 167

The Proud Retreat, a Novel of the Lost Confederate Treasure. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1953. 318pp. Follows the flight of the Confederate Cabinet in 1865 from Rich- mond through the Southern States, with special emphasis on the Treasury and its final disposal. Greensboro, Salisbury and Char- lotte figure largely in this good but somewhat pedantic novel. (E.M.C.) 40 Drysdale

Drysdale, William, 1852-1901. 168

Pine Ridge Plantation, or The Trial and Successes of a Young Cotton Planter. New York: Crowell, 1901. 320pp. Colonel Andrews, a big North Carolina cotton planter, persuades Huntley Robertson, a young man working on a New York farm, to start out on his own near New Bern in 1900. With little money but much determination to succeed, Huntley becomes one of the "crack cotton planters of Craven County." (E.J.H.)

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Dugger, Shepherd Monroe, 1854-1938. 169

The Balsam Groves of the Grandfather Mountain. Banner Elk: privately published, 1892. 187pp. In florid, bombastic, and highly ludicrous verbiage, this travel novel has an assortment of vacationists climbing Grandfather Mountain. A romance culminates in a wedding performed against a backdrop of Linville Falls. This strange and famous novel delights from its naive and absurd embellishments. There have been several reprint- ings. (R.W.)

The War Trails of the Blue Ridge. 170 Banner Elk: Shepherd M. Dugger, 1932. 324pp. A collection of historical and humorous tales of the Blue Ridge. "John Kite's Log-rolling" is a story of the discovery of iron at Cranberry. (D.B.T.)

Duncan, Georgia Elizabeth. 171

Samanthy Billins of Hangin'-Dog. Atlanta: Mutual Publishing Co., 1905. 199pp. Humorous dialect narrative, in the first person, of a woman from the hills of Georgia, who tells her neighbor about her travels. She visited Savannah, Atlanta, Asheville, New York, and other cities. (M.C.) Av DU

Dunlap, Roberta K. 172

Mabel Gordon, by R.K.D.

New York: J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Co., 1901. 250pp. Mabel Gordon, whose family's plantation was ruined during the E. A. B. S. 41

Civil War, is adopted by a wealthy New Yorker, Mrs. Rowland. She serves as secretary and nurse to the Rowland family, who pay for her education. Mrs. Rowland's brother woos Mabel and eventually overcomes the hatred she feels at his part in her family's mis- fortune. (L.R.W.) SL UNC

E. A. B. S. See Shackleford, Miss E. A. B.

Ebbs, Eloise Buckner. 173

Carolina Mountain Breezes. Asheville, N. C: The Miller Press, Inc., 1929. 213pp.

George Reynolds' education is interrupted when he joins Lee's forces. Afterward he and his Virginia-born bride return to his North Carolina mountain home. Despite their struggles in the Reconstruction era, Jane shares her educational advantages with her family and sees her daughters complete their education and return to marry men of noble qualities. (L.J.C.) Av UNC

Edwards, John E. 174

The Log Meeting-house and the Mcllhanys. Nashville: Sunday School Department, Publishing House of the M. E. Church, South, 1884. 343pp. Guilford County, North Carolina, the University of North Carolina, the Carolina mountains and the Virginia springs in the 1820's are locale for this story of an itinerant Methodist preacher's successful efforts to convert a sedate community to Methodism. Diffuse, pedantic style, poor characterizations, dull, interminable religious arguments. (C.W.) Av DU Gb GC SL UNC

Ehle, John Marsden, Jr., 1925- 175

Move Over, Mountain. New York: Morrow, 1957. 315pp.

In Leafwood [Carrboro] in the early 1950's, Jordan Cummings is a hard-working Negro determined to get ahead. Coal yard, taxicab company, beer hall—all are steps toward winning the competition 42 Eppes

with brother Bryant. This novel, simply and affectionately written, is full of warmth and humor. (R.W.) UNC has author's manuscript.

Eppes, Allen, pseud. See Wright, Watkins Eppes

Ersklne, Emma Payne. 176

A Girl of the Blue Ridge. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1915. 401pp. Lury Babb, scarcely more than a child herself, was given the custody of her newborn brother by her dying mother. With the help of Peg Kitchel's school and Daniel McEwen, Lury's surroundings change from one of moonshining and "licker running" to the simple life of a mountain farmer with Dave Turpin. (P.K.L.) Av Rl SL Ty UNC

The Mountain Girl. 177 Boston: Little. Brown. 1912. 312pp. Typical early 20th century popular novel of an English doctor, recuperating from illness in the North Carolina mountains. Inevit- ably he falls in love and marries a native girl; inevitably he inherits a title. Good description of the mountains, the mountain people, and their way of life. (M.P.F.) Rl UNC

When the Gates Lift Up Their Heads. 178 Boston: Little, Brown. & Company, 1901. 445pp. John Marshall returns to his home community (Patterson, N. C.) to find many changes resulting from the Civil War. He falls in love with Portia Van Ostade, who has converted his old home into a boarding house. Upon learning his true parentage, John tries to slip away, but Portia follows him. (P.K.L.)

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Falconbrtdge, pseud. See Kelly, Jonathan Falconbrldge.

Faulkner. Nancy. 179

Pirate Quest. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1955. 256pp. Their ship attacked by pirates, Ian McDonald and his father of FlTZ-SlMONS 43

Edinburgh are forced to join the pirate crew, which includes the evil Blackbeard. Dr. McDonald is marooned and Ian set ashore in Virginia. Ian becomes a doctor's apprentice in colonial Williams- burg and avenges his father's death. Ages 12-16. (C.L.F.)

Fitz-Simons, Foster, 1912- 180

Bright Leaf. New York: Rinehart, 1948. 631pp. This rich, panoramic novel concerns the ruthless climb to power of Brant Royle [Benjamin N. Duke?] in the tobacco world of Kings- mont [Durham]. The invention of the cigarette machine is central. Royle must destroy the old aristocracy before his way to power is clear. Eventually, progress and the ideal are merged. (R.W.)

Fletcher, Inglis Clark, 1888- 181

Bennett's Welcome. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1950. 451pp. Moving from England to Virginia during the Cavalier-Roundhead conflicts, aristocratic Richard Monington in 1651-1652 finds no freedom along the James. With other yeomen and Royalist bonds- men, he moves to the rich lands along the Chowan River and becomes one of the first permanent settlers of North Carolina. (R.W.)

UNC has author's manuscript.

Lusty Wind for Carolina. 182 Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1944. 509pp. The second attempted Cape Fear settlement fails during the pirate menace of 1718-1725. Blackbeard and others, stationed at Ocracoke, hinder the overseas trading which Huguenot weaver Robert Fon- taine hopes to bring to the New World. His daughter Gabrielle marries young David Moray, typical high-spirited adventurer and enterprising colonizer. Lively story-telling. (R.W.)

Men of Albemarle. 183 Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1942. 566pp. In the Albemarle area during 1710-1712 Pollock, Cary, and Hyde contend for the governorship. Provincial law and order evolve amid Cary's Rebellion and the Tuscarora massacres in Bath Town. Wealthy planter Roger Mainwaring has an affair with Mary Tower 44 Fletcher

(Tudor), natural daughter of Charles II. Exciting novel on the ideal of liberty. (R.W.)

Queen's Gift.* 184 Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1952. 448pp. Many characters from Raleigh's Eden and Toil of the Brave reappear in this story of 1788-1789, which concerns itself with North Caro- lina's ratification of the Constitution. Adam Rutledge and Mary Warden, with others, move among the Federalists and Anti- Federalists. From Edenton the scene shifts to Hillsboro during the Convention. (R.W.)

Raleigh's Eden. 185 Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1940. 662pp. The love story of aristocratic Adam Rutledge and the Whig hostess Mary Warden of Edenton is told against a backdrop of events which show the course of patriot revolt. Time in 1765-1781. The Edenton Tea Party, the Mecklenburg Declaration, the Revolutionary battles, the Provincial Assemblies, and Tryon's Palace are treated. (R.W.)

Roanoke Hundred. 186 Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1948. 492pp.

Sir Richard Grenville is the hero of this novel about the first attempted settlement of Roanoke Island, 1585-1586. Governor Ralph Lane is portrayed as a weak leader. The shepherd boy Colin, natural son of Sir Richard, takes part in the expedition. Raleigh, Sidney, Hakluyt, White, Hariot, and Drake have roles. (R.W.)

UNC has author's manuscript.

The Scotswoman. 187 Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1955. 480pp. Colorful, sympathetic novel of the noted heroine Flora Macdonald's leaving Scotland in 1774 and arriving on the Cape Fear just before the Revolution. She becomes engulfed in political troubles, later rallies her Scottish Highlanders to the Loyalist side against the patriots. Climax in the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge. (R.W.)

Toil of the Brave. 188 Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1946. 547pp. At peaceful River Plantation [Bandon in Chowan County], life goes on in 1779-1780 for those who, far from the war, are thus somewhat

* Winner of a Sir Walter Raleigh Award, 1953. Fletcher 45

apathetic, including Angela Gonsalvo with her romantic involve- ments. Gradually their attitudes change as events lead up to the Battle of Kings Mountain. (R.W.)

UNC has author's manuscript.

The Wind in the Forest. 189 Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1957. 448pp. In 1768 Hillary Caswell, in Tyrrell County on his way to serve Governor Tryon at New Bern, falls in love with Cecelia Chapman. Later he is present at the Regulators' riots in Hillsboro, the opening of Tryon's Palace, and the Battle of Alamance (1771). Harmon Husband is a leading character. (R.W.)

Forbus, Ina B. 190

The Magic Pin. New York: Viking Press, 1956. 138pp. After 9 -year-old Neelie Greenleaf learns she can talk with the animals while wearing Granma's magic pin, she rescues her wood- land friends during a flood and also saves Grandpa's gristmill on "Crickety Creek" [near Chapel Hill]. A delightful story for girls 7 to 11. (R.W.)

UNC has author's manuscript.

Fosdick, Charles Austin, 1842-1915. 191

Marcy the Blockade-Runner, by Harry Castlemon, pseud. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1891. 428pp. Young Marcy Gray, his mother and brother, of Nashville, are Union sympathizers but must present a Confederate front to their neighbors. The boys are half-hearted pilots and blockade runners off the North Carolina coast, and Jack even joins the Union fleet. (W.S.P.) DU UNC

Marcy, the Refugee, by Harry Castlemon, pseud. 192 Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates, 1892. 432pp. Young Marcy Gray, his mother, and brother, live near New Bern during the Civil War but are Unionists. Loyalist neighbors join them in various perils. Marcy's final triumph is leading the Union fleet, as pilot, to the capture of Roanoke Island. (W. Bft.) UNC WnB 46 Foster

Foster, John, 1925- 193

Dark Heritage. New York: Fawcett, 1955. 160pp. Violence, lust, rottenness, and tobacco farming are tied in with the disintegration of the aristocratic Dunlach family of Dunlachboro [Elizabethtown] in the Peace [Cape Fear] River valley of the Border Belt. In August 1945 Wheat Dunlach tries to save the estate of Dunlachen while brother Doyle deserts his enlistment. (R.W.) UNC Wm

Frayser, Lou H. 194

Then and Now; or Hope's First School, by Zillah Raymond, pseud. Wilmington: Jackson and Bell, 1883. 213pp. Hope Caldwell leaves Tradesville [Point Caswell, Pender County] to teach a year [1873-74] at a one-room rural school near the Neuse River. The authentic scenes of school life and lively activities of a country community are linked with Hope's romantic love for wealthy, moody Rodney Gilvert. Semiautobiographical, regional fiction. (M.L.D.) Av Ch DU Gv SL UNC WC Wm WnB

Frazer, William H., 1873-1953. 195

Fireside Musings of "Uncle" Rastus and "Aunt" Randy. Charlotte: Murrill Press, 1925. 101pp. Plotless dialogues between two old-time Negroes concerning radio, crossword puzzles, mah-jong, airplanes, prohibition, motion pictures, golf, and automobiles. (R.W.) Ch DU SL UNC

The Possumist and Other Stories. 196 Charlotte: Murrill Press, 1924. 68pp. The originality of these anecdotes in Negro dialect, many of them hardly more than jokes used in after-dinner speeches, is doubtful. Not definitely set in North Carolina. (R.W.) Ch Cn DU Hk SL Ty UNC Wm

Frick, Harvey L. 197

Apostate Physician. New York: House of Field, Inc., 1937. 247pp. Fuller 47

Dr. Robert Keane, a brilliant surgeon, disguises himself as Old John Peters in order to expose graft and malpractice in a community hospital in Cragsville (probably a western North Carolina town.) (E.M.C.)

Fuller, Edwin Wiley, 1847-1876. 198

Sea-Gift.

New York: E. J. Hale, 1873. 408pp. In this famous sentimental novel of antebellum and Civil War times, John Smith, son of a Goldsboro planter, studies at Chapel Hill, marries a Cuban girl ("sea-gift") washed ashore at Wrights- ville Beach, and goes to war. At UNC the book was once known as the "freshman bible." Reprinted 1940. (R.W.)

Fulton, David Bryant, 1863- 199

Hanover; or The Persecution of the Lowly. A Story of the Wilmington Massacre, by Jack Thorne, pseud. [Philadelphia?]: M.C.L. Hill, [1902?]. 136pp. A series of loosely connected sketches of life and affairs in Wilming- ton leading up to and including the race riot of November, 1898. (W.S.P.) UNC

Gaither, Frances Ormond Jones, 1889- 200

Little Miss Cappo. New York: Macmillan, 1946. 254pp. In nineteenth century Salem Catherine Ann Crews (little Miss Cappo) enrolls in the Moravians' school, where she becomes a day- keeper in the fifth room. Like all the students she goes to the sleep hall, to vespers, to Public Examination, and occasionally to Daddy Kunkle's tavern to meet relatives. (K.W.H.)

Gerson, Noel B. 201

The Cumberland Rifles.

New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1952. 314pp.

Rosalind Walker, a pretty young Boston schoolteacher, is attracted to two daring men, Janus Elholm and Harold Jordan, who face danger and excitement while serving as Spanish spies along the border of North Carolina during the early history of the territory now known as Tennessee. (J.A.S.) Gv UNC 48 GlELOW

Gielow, Martha S. 202

Uncle Sam. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1913. 61pp. Simple story for adolescents, designed to encourage better food standards, of an Appalachian Mountains couple, who entertain a government surveyer and gain, thereby, not only apple tree slips and seeds from Uncle Sam, but a trip to Wash'n'ton—Dee—Cee. The mountains are probably North Carolina's. (M.B.J.)

Gifford, James Noble. 203

Carolina, by Carol Holliston, pseud. New York: Arcadia House, 1949. 254pp. Diane Williams, after her father's death, comes from New York to her uncle's "estate," really a shanty boat house on a creek near Elizabeth City. Her adjustment to her new home is complicated by the necessity of choosing among three suitors, all of different social strata. (W.C.W.)

Gildon, Charles, 1665-1724, attributed to. 204

Miscellanea Aurea: or the Golden Medley. London: Bettesworth and Pemberton, 1720. 294pp. The second of seven verisimilar "pieces," Gildon's "The Fortunate Shipwreck, or a Description of New Athens, being an Account of the Laws, Manners, Religion, and Customs of that Country; by Morris Williams, Gent, who resided there above Twenty Years," contains a brief mention of "Carolina"—the first in fiction. (R.W.) WnB

Giles, Janice Holt. 205

The Kentuckians. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1953. 272pp. A romantic novel of David Cooper and Bethia Jordan during the pioneering days of Western North Carolina, the Transylvania Com- pany, and the settling of Kentucky. British and Indian warfare against the settlers bring in well-known historical characters such as Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, and Judge Richard Henderson. (N.G.) UNC Wl Mifcellanea Aurea: OR THE GOLDEN MEDLEY.

Confiding of

L A Voyage to the Mountains of the Moon under the -Equator, or Parnajfus reform'd.

II. The Fortunate Shipwreck, or a Defection of NewJthois, being an Account of the Laws, Man-

ners, Religion, and Cuftoms of that Country 5 by Morn; Williams, Gent, who rellded there above Twenty Years.

III. Alberoni, or a Vindication of that Car- dinal. IV. The Secret Hiftory of the Amours of Don A l o n z o, Duke cf Lerma, Grandee of Spain. V. The Garden of Adonis, or Love to no pur- pofe $ being above Twenty Copies of Verfes and Love-Letters, by a Lady. VI. Mahometuo Impoftor, written in Arahicl^ by AbduUa MahumcA Omar. VII. An Account of Bad and Good Women, An- cient and Modern. Among which is the Story of the Spartan Dame, the Subject of Mr. Sotithern'sVhy. With feveral other Epiflohry

Eflays in.Profe and Verfe : By Mr. Milton, the Lady W Mr. Philips, Mr. tfftgrtw, Author of the Chit Chat, and feveral others.

LONDON: Printed for A. Bettesworth in Pater- in Fleet Nofler-Row, and J. Pemberton fireet. MDCCXX.

The first mention of Carolina in fiction occurs in "The Fortunate Shipwreck." See No. 204. 50 GlLMORE

Gilmore, James R., 1822-1903. 206

Among the Pines: or, South in Secession-Time, by Edmund Kirke, pseud.

New York: J. R. Gilmore, 1862. 310pp. A New Yorker with abolitionist sentiments visits Southern friends in the turpentine forests of southeastern North Carolina near "the little hamlet of W Station" [Whiteville?]. This is his story of life in the Carolinas at that time. (W.S.P.) Av DU NCS Rl UNC WC Wm WnB WsP

A Mountain-White Heroine, by Edmund Kirke, pseud. 207 New York: Belford, Clarke and Company, 1889. 240pp. The aristocratic Hawkins family, opposed to slavery, moves into Western North Carolina [Madison County] before the Civil War. During hostilities they and their "poor white" neighbors suffer numerous hardships, but the strength of Mrs. Hawkins and her influence over her rustic neighbors eased their lot. (W.S.P.) UNC

My Southern Friends, by Edmund Kirke, pseud. 208 New York: Carleton, 1863. 308pp. A New York businessman forms close ties of friendship with several North Carolina families [Jones and Craven counties]. They assist each other in solving personal and financial problems and at the same time come to appreciate opposite points of view on national questions just before the Civil War. (W.S.P.) Av DU NCS Rl UNC WnB

Glascock, Harold, 1880- 209

Plow and Scalpel: A Biography of Clemson MacFarland, M.D., by Robert Winfield, pseud. New York: Vantage Press, 1953. 218pp. A Missouri farm lad arrives in Hillsdale [Raleigh] to practice osteopathy, later takes an M.D. and establishes a hospital. In this autobiographical "novel" masking as biography, the opposition of the medical profession to osteopathy is recounted. (R.W.)

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Goff, George Paul. 210 Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches. Gold 51

Lancaster, Pa.: Inquirer Printing and Publishing Company, 1879. 84pp. Of the four stories in this volume only "A Trip to Currituck" is about North Carolina. It relates the fishing and hunting experiences of a group of men on Currituck Sound. There are incidents involving the men, their servants, and dogs. (W. Bft.) UNC WnB

Gold, Daisy Hendley. 211

It Was Forever. Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1940. 281pp. At Martinsburg [a combination of Beaufort and Morehead City], Nan Adams Maxton, though married, is in love with the British sea- captain Lucian Warren. She faces the condemnation of her small coastal town and, after the birth of Davey, escapes. Frank episodes. (R.W.)

Gordon, Caroline, 1895- 212

Green Centuries. New York: Scribner's, 1941. 469pp. Rion Outlaw moves west after taking part in Regulator uprisings. Younger brother Archy follows but ends up a captive of the Cherokees and lives among them the rest of his life. Rion raises a family, and they suffer all the trials of the early settlers. (V.W.P.) UNC

Gordon, Ian. 213

After Innocence. New York: Dell, 1955. 191pp. A Northern chemistry professor at Southern [U.N.C., Chapel Hill] falls in love with his student Lora Walker, while tough, unprincipled Charles Buckley from Siler City tries to edge in. Professor Phalen's wife meanwhile consorts with her house-contractor. Vio- lence, sex, murder—a travesty of Southern personality, especially as regards Buckley. (R.W.) Lk SL

[Graham, George Rex, 1813-1894?] 214

Marion's Men, A Romance of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Old Loyalist," "The Southern Whig," Etc. Et. Etc.*

May have appeared in Graham's Magazine, Philadelphia. 52 Gray

Philadelphia: A. J. Rockafellar, 1843. 56pp.

This stilted tale of Tory and Patriot during the Revolution is set almost entirely in South Carolina. A Tory prisoner, however, is taken "into North Carolina, where he can be kept out of the way of doing harm to the cause of Liberty." (W.S.P.) LC UNC

Gray, Elizabeth Janet, 1902- 215

The Fair Adventure. New York: The Viking Press, 1940. 246pp. Page MacNeill graduates from a North Carolina high school. Her dramatic and artistic talent, the close relationship with her father, her emotions when her sister marries, her dates, and friends are background. Her ambition to go to a large northern college is finally made possible by her family. (C.M.P.) Al

Jane Hope. 216 New York: Viking, 1941. 276pp. The life of Jane Hope from her twelfth through her sixteenth year with her mother, brother and sister, at the home of her grandparents in Chapel Hill is full of plans, adventure, problems, and romance. The story ends with the coming of the Civil War. (C.M.P.) Al UNC WsP

Meggy Macintosh. 217 New York: Doubleday, 1941. 274pp.

Meggy Macintosh is a 15-year-old orphan, living with relatives in Edinburgh. Eager to live in the New World and to find Flora Mac- donald, she secures passage to Wilmington. She finds friends, Flora, and loves America, even on the eve of the Revolution when the Scots are torn between two loyalties. (C.M.P.) Al UNC

Green, Paul*, 1894- 218

Dog on the Sun. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1949. 178pp. Twelve short stories, most of them set in the Cape Fear country of Harnett County. Many are legends put in story form, and there are

• For a short story by him see under Clarence Addison Hibbard. Green 53

several rural comedies as well as stark tales of the poor whites. A few are set in a university community [Chapel Hill]. (R.W.)

UNC has author's manuscript.

The Laughing Pioneer. 219 New York: McBride, 1932. 282pp. Well-written novel about life in a small community in the Piedmont fifty years ago. A wandering boy with a guitar is hired by Alice Long to work on her farm, but this causes talk, and Alice's rejected suitor incites the Ku Klux Klan to take action. (N.G.)

UNC has author's manuscript.

Salvation on a String and Other Tales of the South. 220 New York: Harper, 1946. 278pp. A collection of colorful tales of the Little Bethel Country (Harnett, Wake, and Cumberland counties). Austin Honey's fight with the buzzards and his bizarre burial, the McNeill twins' money-raising efforts for the church organ, chain-gang brutality, and the ways of backsliders provide some of the starkly human themes and characters. (K.W.H.)

UNC has author's manuscript.

This Body the Earth. 221 New York: Harper, 1935. 422pp. In a convincing social study, Alvin Barnes, ambitious son of a shiftless sharecropper in the Little Bethel Community (1885-1920), is determined to rise above his class. Struggling a lifetime for his own land and human dignity, Alvin learned, through shattering defeats, the great odds against breaking through the "system." (K.W.H.)

UNC has author's manuscript.

Wide Fields. 222 New York: McBride, 1928. 280pp. Fourteen stories and other selections of Eastern Carolina folk: the poor farmers and the aristocrats, the young and the senile, the luckless Negroes and the white millhands. Comedy and tragedy, romance and realism. The author has artistically characterized the varied segments of a rural community.

(R.W.) . . 54 Greene

Greene, Talbot. 223

American Nights' Entertainments; Compiled from Pencilings of a United States Senator: Entitled, a Winter in the Federal City. Jonesborough, Term.: Wm. A. Sparks & Co., 1860. 266pp. Short stories and sketches purportedly related by well-known Southerners, including some North Carolinians, gathered for sociable evenings in the White House. The bizarre and marvelous incidents are presented by means of the story-within-a-story technique. (M.C.)i Av DU UNC

Groome, Bailey T. See Lucas, John Paul, Jr.

Hall, Alonzo Cleveland, 1886- , and Nettie Sue Tillett, editors. 224

Alumnae Miscellany: A Fiftieth Anniversary Publication. Greensboro: Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, 1942. 248pp. Two of the eight stories in this anthology have North Carolina settings: " 'Feard Cat" by Mildred Harrington and "Celie" from Rose Batterham's [Mrs. William G. Houskeeper] Pleasure Piece. Both are set in Western North Carolina. (M.M.H.) ECC Gb SL UNC WC Wm

Hall, Eugene, pseud. See Baker, Emma Eugene Hall

Hamilton, W. J., pseud. See Clark, Charles Dunning

Hannum, Alberta Pierson, 1906- 225

The Gods and One. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. 272pp. Darby, a betrayed mountain girl of the pre-automobile era, moves in with amiable Squire Larks, his wife, two other women, and thirty children. Though she becomes number four, her only concern is for her son Wiseman. (R.W.) Ch Dr Gv Kn Lk Mg UNC Wl Wm Ws

The Hills Step Lightly. 226 New York: William Morrow, 1934. 281pp. The story of a mountain [Avery County] woman from her birth during the Civil War to old age. Though married to the good- Hannum 55

natured Ance, Deborah Deane loves Jilson Alder, fiddler and itinerate shoemaker. The narrative of primitive life in the hills is matched by a rhythmic prose. (R.W.) Ch Dr DU Gs UNC

Thursday April. 227 New York: Harper, 1931. 285pp. In the Blue Ridge Mountains [of Avery County], Thursday April Duly, the mother of eleven, becomes involved in the love affairs of her twins, Phoebe and Square. Time in 1897-1917. The style captures the musical mountain speech; there are copious quaint words and expressions. (R.W.) Bn Ch Dr Hk Mg UNC WC

Harbaugh, T. C. 228

Under Greene's Banner, or The Boy Heroes of 1781. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1904. 213pp. The struggle between Tories and Patriots in Piedmont Carolina during the Revolution forms the background of this children's spy story, one of the Boys of Liberty Library series. The Battle of Guilford Court House is vividly pictured. Flowery, ornate style, but fair historical novel for even today's sophisticated children. (R.M.) UNC

Harden, John William, 1903- 229

The Devil's Tramping Ground and Other North Carolina Mystery Stories. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1949. 171pp. Absorbing collection of presumably true episodes, ranging from the legend of the Lost Colony to the disappearance of Major Clark from Raleigh in 1944. Subjects include Theodosia Burr, Marshall Ney, Nell Cropsey, the Brown Mountain Lights, and other matters. Classification as fiction is loose. (R.W.) UNC has author's manuscript.

Tar Heel Ghosts. 230 Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1954. 178pp. These more than thirty very interesting ghost tales from olden times to the present tell of apparitions from the coast to the mountains, including the famous "Ghost of Maco Station." Loosely classified as fiction. (R.W.) 56 Hargrave

Hargrave, Will Loftin. 231

Wallannah, a Colonial Romance. Richmond: B. F. Johnson Publishing Co., 1902. 429pp.

John Cantwell is not the good, honest man the people ot New Bern think. His life is one black lie after another with schemes affecting several people whose lives become very much involved. The plot covers nearly 30 years, the main part being in Tryon's administration. (V.W.P.)

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Hargrove, Edward Thomas Marion Lawton, 1919- 232

See Here, Private Hargrove. New York: Henry Holt, 1942. 211pp. This famous semiautobiographical story, composed of connected newspaper pieces, tells of a light-hearted draftee from Charlotte at Fort Bragg. The humorous incidents have delighted millions of readers. (R.W.)

Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825- 233

Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted. Boston: James H. Earle, 1895. 282pp. Eugene Leroy, wealthy Creole planter, married a young slave. Iola, daughter of this marriage, sold into slavery on the death of Leroy, is brought to North Carolina, but escapes to serve as a Civil War Union nurse. White and black vie for her affections, but she marries a mixture of both, a doctor, and teaches school in the South. (W. Bft.) DU SA WnB

Harper, Wilhelmina, compiler. 234

Where the Redbird Flies, Stories -from the Southeasern States. New York: Dutton, 1946. 227pp.

North Carolina is the setting for five of the 26 stories from the southeastern states. They are: Chapel Hill; Turkey Creek Bottom and High Ridge Community School in the mountains; Sandy Point near Cape Hatteras; Guilford County; and a settlement on the Yadkin River. Time: 18th through 20th centuries. (K.W.H.)

Harrington, Mildred. See Hall, Alonzo Cleveland. Harris 57

Harris, Arthur Merton, 1883- 235 Pirates Tales from the Law. Boston: Little, Brown, 1923. 324pp. Six stories about famous pirates, including one about Blackbeard. That one tells some of his more famous escapades and, finally of his death. (V.W.P.) Hb Rl UNC

Harris, Bernice Kelly, 1893- 236

Hearthstones: A Novel of the Roanoke River Country in North Carolina. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1948. 273pp.

When, during the Civil War, Caje Day is "read out" of the church for disloyalty, he isolates his family on Urahaw Island. In World War II, Caje's four aged unmarried daughters befriend a deserter, and history repeats itself. The author's only historical novel. (R.W.)

Janey Jeems. 237 Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1946. 306pp. Jeems West and his wife Janey have a three-fold purpose: get their land title-free, build a church with a white steeple, and teach their many children to obey the Ten Commandments. Time is about 1880-1940. The West family are Negroes [of Northampton County], though the fact is never mentioned. (R.W.)

Portulaca. 238 Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1941. 335pp.

Nannie Lou Fuller of Purslane is now, in 1937, Mrs. Nancy Hunting- ton of the petite noblessee in Bonwell [Seaboard?], center of a rich agricultural area. Wanting to write, Nancy fancies herself in love with a New York agent, but returns to husband Kirke. Gentle satire of the bridge-party, church-supper set. (R.W.)

Purslane* 239 Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1939. 316pp. This beautiful, warm novel of Pate's Siding [Auburn, Wake County] at the turn of the century is a series of episodes about a hardwork- ing, contented farming community. With little money, life was nevertheless rich. The characters are mainly plain country land- owners. Published London, 1939, as Pate's Siding. (R.W.) UNC has author's manuscript.

* Winner of the Mayflower Society Cup, 1939. 58 Harris

Sage Quarter. 240 Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1945. 259pp. A sort of magic, fairy-tale quality hovers about Sage Quarter, seat of the Ardley clan, from Nurmama on down. The scene is Eastern Carolina [a bit of both Wake and Northampton counties perhaps]. The Cinderella-like Tiny waits at Sage Quarter till Stonewall Williams comes to establish a medical practice. (R.W.)

Sweet Beulah Land. 241 Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1943. 389pp. By effective contrast, this novel places the shabby, land-poor aristocrats opposite the robust sharecroppers. The proud Alicia Donner falls in love with the wanderer Lan. Though the time is the automobile era [in Northampton County], one character has its original in General Matt Ransom of nineteenth-century fame. (R.W.)

Wild Cherry Tree Road. 242 Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1951. 282pp. This sequel to Purslane pursues the community comedies and tragedies of the farming folk of Springfield [Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, Wake County]. Central character is homeless Kalline, who stays at one household or another till told to "move on." Eventually she is happily settled in the County Home. (R.W.)

Harris, Mattie Virginia, 1891- 243

Weddin' Trimmin's. New York: Exposition Press, 1949. 233pp. Lucy, light skinned and different in appearance from most of her Negro friends, is brought up by her colored Aunt Julina. Her white friends of the plantation, her father's interest in her education, and her Aunt Julina's teachings help her to achieve a real sense of values. (E.R. McL.)

Harriss, Robert Preston,* 1903- 244

The Foxes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1936. 240pp. Nature story for adults about the growth of five fox cubs on a Southern plantation in the 1800s, and their first experience of a fox hunt. Author is a North Carolinian. (S.E.M.)

* For a short story by him see under William Maxwell Blackburn. Hartridge 59

Hartridge, Clifford Wayne. 245

Manteo. New York: Frederick G. Osberg, 1935. 350pp. In 1732 Manteo Cerdic, son of a proud English family and the descendant of Chief Manteo's sister, accompanies Oglethorpe to Georgia. He wins an Indian princess, the beautiful Manteona; and they return to England. Scene is Georgia, not North Carolina. Undistinguished. (R.W.) SL UNC

Hawes, Herbert Bouldin. 246

The Daughter of the Blood. Boston: Four Seas, 1930. 427pp. Against a complicated Indian-legend symbolism, Nonya (Virginia Dare) and Skah (Grenville's son) hold their power over the Indians, and at Roanoke Island in 1607 await the arrival of white men. After encounters with Pemberton (John Rolfe), John Smith, and Poca- hontas at James Towne, the pair disappear into the forest. (R.W.) Hb UNC Wm

Hawkins, Dean, pseud. See Dean, Benjamin Hawkins

Hay, James, 1881-1936. 247

The Bellamy Case. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1925. 259pp. Joan Bellamy and Wayne Gilmore oppose each other for nomination to the state senate. Sudden death (a suspected murder) of Gilmer's campaign manager throws suspicion on the entire Bellamy family. With help from an excellent detective, Joan proves herself innocent and wins the election. Setting: Asheville and Madison County. (V.W.P.) Av UNC

The Hidden Woman. 248 New York: Dodd, Mead, 1929. 258pp.

Mrs. Lassiter is murdered while in Asheville to recover her health. A neighbor has her own ideas about the case and writes a continuing report for the newspaper. The lawyer hired by the victim's sister follows the numerous leads until he comes up with a most unexpected solution. (V.W.P.) UNC 60 Hay

The Winning Clue. 249 New York: Dodd, Mead, 1919. 298pp. In Furmville [Asheville], a mountain city of 30,000, patronized by out-of-state tuberculosis patients, a woman is strangled to death, robbery of her jewels the apparent motive. An Atlanta detective provides a surprising solution. This routine murder-mystery has slight local connection except for the police chief and several Negro characters. (R.W.) Av UNC

Haydn, Hiram Collins, 1907- 250

The Time Is Noon. New York: Crown Publishers, 1948. 561pp. Among the Emerson College graduates striving in business and affected by the 1929 market crash, Sol Krassovsky, newspaper reporter, and Sand Warren, talented art student, sought security and happiness in their love for each other. A greatly detailed novel, it brings in the Gastonia trial of accused Communist Fred Beal. (R.M.K.)

Heagney, Anne. 251

The Magic Pen. Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Co., 1949. 168pp. Fictional story of the author "Christian Reid" (Mrs. Frances Fisher Tiernan) whose works were popular in the late 19th century. Salisbury, her hometown, and its mountain environs are featured. Simple style. Ages: 12-18. (E.M.C.)

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Hedden, Worth Tuttle, 1896- 252

Love Is a Wound. New York: Crown, 1952. 467pp. An outstanding, artistic novel covering fifty years, beginning at Bayport [Southport] in 1884, and moving to Methodist pastorates at Cameronville [Fayetteville] and Silverboro [Goldsboro]. Brother Humiston marries vivacious Ellen instead of her pious sister Ora, who thereafter lives with them. Ora's neurotic bitterness approaches disaster for the man and the two women. (R.W.) Helton 61

Helton, Roy. 253

Nitchey Tilley. New York: Harper, 1934. 352pp. The theme of this unsuccessful novel is the effect of civilization on a hero intelligent but naive. Till he is twenty, Nitchey is reared by an old eccentric in the Smokies. Then he goes to New York to discover Love and Life. Published London, 1934, as Their Own Day. (R.W.) Dr Rm UNC Wy

Henderson, Le Grand, 1901- 254

Tom Benn and Blackbeard, the Pirate, by Le Grand, pseud. Nashville: Abingdon, 1954. 63pp. Imaginary story of an 11 -year-old Ocracoke Island boy who helps to capture Blackbeard. Ages 7-9. (P.B.M.)

Henderson, Walter Percy, 1927- 254a

Down to Seven. New York: Vantage Press, 1957. 204pp.

Notnert [Trenton in Jones County] is the scene of this story of Lasso Landed Gentry, father of seven. Chapter by chapter each of the children adds to their father's portrait, detailing the everyday life in a small town during the last forty or so years. (R.W.)

Hendricks, William C, editor. 255

Bundle of Troubles and Other Tarheel Tales. (A WPA project.) Durham: Duke University Press, 1943. 206pp. Thirty-seven tales, both in Negro and other folk dialects, ranging from the coast to the mountains. Ghosts, witches, odd personalities abound. Some stories are old, some new; many are of the "tall tale" variety. Mary A. Hicks and James Larkin Pearson are among the reporters. (R.W.)

Henri, Florette. 256

Kings Mountain. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1950. 340pp. For six months in mid 1780, Reece MacDermott journeys among the backwoods settlers to rouse them to action against British raiders. 62 Henry

In the Watauga Settlement he falls in love with a half-Indian girl. Climax is the Battle of Kings Mountain. Earthy language. (R.W.)

Henry, O., pseud. See Porter, William Sidney

Henty, George Alfred, 1832-1902. 257

True to the Old Flag, A Tale of the American War of Independence. London: Blackie and Son, [1884?]. 390pp. A simply written (but with stilted Negro dialect) story of the Revolutionary War, with young Harold Wilson's part in it as a scout. The Battle of Guilford Court House is described, and Kings Mountain and Wilmington are mentioned. Ages 12-16. (C.J.P.) DU UNC

Hentz, Caroline Lee Whiting, 1800-1856. 258

Lovell's Folly. Cincinnati: Hubbard and Edmonds, 1833. 333pp. Though the plot concerns a group of Virginians travelling in Massa- chusetts, this rare novel has two characters said to be the first North Carolinians in prose fiction. Uncle November and Aunt Venus, carriage-driver and cook, are drawn from two slaves of President Joseph P. Caldwell of the University of North Carolina. (R.W.)

LC; DU UNC (both in reproduction)

Herring, Donald Grant. See Kahler, Hugh MacNair

Herrington, W. D. 259

The Captain's Bride: A Tale of the War. Raleigh: William B. Smith, 1864. 22pp. In 1862, Captain Horton with his 100 "well mounted Partizans" opposes 500 Yankees occupying an eastern town [Kinston, presumably]. Aided by his beloved Estelle, he overcomes her Federal brother and a Northern suitor, and forces the enemy into retreat. This patriotic novelette is a rare Confederate imprint. (R.W.) DU UNC Herrington 63

The Deserter's Daughter. 260 Raleigh: Wm. B. Smith, 1865. 27pp. Several Southern officers are troubled about conditions at Dover Swamp (between New Bern and Kinston), where deserters and Northern sympathizers are making things difficult for the Con- federacy. A deserter's loyal daughter helps Captain Forrester expell them from their stronghold. Light-weight novelette, published during the last months of the Civil War. (R.W.) Av DU SL UNC

Heyward, Du Bose, 1885-1940. 261

Angel. New York: George H. Doran, 1926. 287pp. In the Smoky Mountains, pretty Angel Thornley and handsome young bootlegger Buck Merritt fall in love. He is apprehended by revenue officers; and Angel is married to old Stan Galloway, who takes her away to his remote cabin before her son is born. Poetic novel of sturdy mountain people. (R.W.)

Lost Morning. 262 New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1936. 270pp. During the early 1930's in "Exeter," a cigarette-manufacturing city in "the Piedmont region of Carolina" (whether North or South Carolina is never made clear), middle-aged Felix Hollister, successful etcher, struggles amid the country club set with the problems of commercialism versus art, and his wife versus the younger woman. (R.W.)

Hibbard, Clarence Addison, 1887-1945, editor. 263

Stories of the South: Old and New. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1931. 520pp. Among these 27 stories are Olive Tilford Dargan's "Serena and Wild Strawberries," Charles W. Chestnutt's "Sis' Becky's Pickaninny," O. Henry's "A Municipal Report," Wilbur Daniel Steele's "Pioneers," and Paul Green's "A Tempered Fellow." Excellent collection. (R.W.)

Hicks, Mary A. See Cobb, Lucy Maria, and Hendricks, William C.

Hight, William B., Jr. 264

A Collection of Hearts. [No place, no publisher], 1956. 156pp. These dozen short stories of the lower class are set on farms and in a

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small towns (presumably in North Carolina). The characters— jealous husband, a tender-hearted real estate agent, a drunken bum, a poet, and so on—dominate pieces somewhat above the amateur level. (R.W.)

Hill, William Lauriston, 1835- 265

The Master of the Red Buck and the Bay Doe: A Story of Whig and Tory Warfare in North Carolina in 1781-83. Charlotte: Stone, 1913. 297pp. David Fanning, owner of two famous horses, heads Tory raiders in the Brush Creek area of Chatham County. The Pittsboro Court is captured, Governor Burke kidnapped, and the Battle of Cane Creek fought. Pretty Polly Scurlock is sent off to Guilford County to avoid the raiders. Amateur historical fiction. (R.W.)

Hilts, Edward. See, Life in the United States.

HOLLINGSWORTH, JESSE GENTRY, 1893- 266

Worth Dale. New York: Exposition Press, 1951. 162pp. Disinherited by his parents, Dale is taken in charge by Patrick Parvins, the local teacher. A double struggle ensues: Parvins and Diana Bronson against James Bland and Joan Holt; and the struggle within Worth himself between good and evil of his own nature. Good finally wins, but not before much soul-searching and near- failure. (A.R.C.) Gb Hb Mg SL Ws

Holliston, Carol, pseud. See Gifford, James Noble

Hooks, Arah, 1906- 267

Mr. Nosey. New York: Appleton, 1945. 31pp. Mr. Nosey, a jolly beloved friend of children, loses his smile. Birds cease their songs, flowers wilt, and children grieve while Mr. Nosey frantically searches. He finds it again by doing kind deeds and everyone is happy again. Ages 6-8. (E.J.B.) Ch Lx Mr Rm SL Sm UNC Hoss 65

Hoss, May Dikeman. 268

The Pike. New York: Appleton- Century-Crofts, Inc., 1954. 303pp. The Clabos family live in North Carolina [Ashe County? Watauga?] and Hugh, the youngest son, is twenty-five. He has been around the world several times in the Merchant Marines but is not ready to settle down. The story deals with the troubles the Clabos get into in connection with Hugh's love affairs. (V.M.B.)

Houskeeper, Mrs. William G., 1889- 269

Pleasure Piece, or Fair Ellender in His Arms, by Rose Batterham, pseud* New York: Harper, 1935. 290pp. Fourteen-year-old Celie Shelton has spent her entire life in a Caro- lina mountain cave with her father, who was wrongly accused by the "valley people" of committing murder. When her father dies suddenly, Furm Doyce and his mother rescue Celie from faithless Lyle Abanathy. Effective use of mountain dialect. (E.J.H.) AS Dr UNC WC

Howe, Margaret, pseud. See Brucker, Margaretta

Howell, Andrew Jackson, Jr., 1869-1947. 270

Money Island. Wilmington: Commercial Printing Co., 1908. 68pp. A story of treasure buried on an island near Wilmington in the 17th

century by Captain Kidd and a 19th century search for it. (K.E.H.) Rl SL UNC Wm WnB

Hubbard, Margaret Ann 1909- 271 The Hickory Limb. New York: Macmillan, 1942. 291pp. Young Tremble Lovelace, captured from a fort on the Watauga River, learns much from the Indians, saves her people from an Indian attack, and sees peace come to the mountains after the Revolution. (V.W.P.)

* For a short story by her see under Alonzo Cleveland Hall. 66 HUGGINS

Huggins, Edith Warren, 1905- 272

In All Its Glory. Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1945. 209pp. Carolina Wendell loses her girlhood sweetheart, John Winston, by his infatuation and marriage to her scheming half-sister Lavinia. Marriage to Philip, overseer of her Catawba County plantation, does not free Carolina and John from Lavinia's jealous persecution. Con- flict and near tragedy ensue in this story of the Reconstruction era. (E.W.H.)2 Al Ch Fy Hk Rl Sb SL Sm UNC Wm

Hunt, Mabel Leigh, 1892- 273

Benjie's Hat. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1938. 119pp.

Eight year old Benjie is spending the winter with his Quaker grandmother in Guilford County when his only hat is eaten by a horse. Acquiring a "real hat," made by a hat maker, teaches this young boy a very valuable lesson. Simple, dignified story, giving insight into speech and customs of The Society of Friends. (M.K.H.)

Matilda's Buttons. 274 Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1948. 126pp. Matilda Foster, an impulsive, generous little girl of nine, comes with her family from Indianapolis to visit her Quaker aunts "near Greens- boro," likely Randolph County, in the late nineteenth century. She precipitates a family crisis when she gives away a set of beautiful buttons bearing family portraits. (E.J.H.)

Hunter, J. Allen, 1881-1957. 275

Dear Doctor Dick: The Story of a Small Town Physician. New York: Exposition Press, 1955. 53pp. A Northern newspaperman visits a doctor "in a small North Carolina village" [Elon College?] and learns from him a story of goodness and happiness. This inconsequential little book is generously sup- plied with "inspirational" poetry by other authors. (R.W.) SL UNC WnB

Hutchens, Paul. 276 Yesterday's Rain. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1945. 187pp. A young naturalist of the Toe River Valley is saved from drug Hyatt 67

addiction and marries a missionary home on sick leave from India. Avery County people are thinly disguised as characters. (D.B.T.) Bk Bn Ch Ln Mg Nl

Hyatt, Rebecca Dougherty. 277

Marthy Lou's Kiverlid. Morristown, Tenn.: Triangle Press, 1937. 117pp. The rather slight story of the making of a coverlet for Marthy Lou's trousseau. The author's interest is mainly in the folklore of the Tennessee and North Carolina mountains. Mountain customs and speech (of about 1900-1910) are well presented. (W.L.E.) Av AS UNC

James, Bessie Rowland. 278

The Happy Animals of Ata-ga-hi. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1935. 260pp. Fourteen Cherokee Indian myths of the Great Smoky Mountains retold for children from 8-12. Characters mostly animals, including Black Bear and agile, clever Rabbit. Mediocre in style but good format and attractive illustrations. (M.C.H.)3 Al Ch Lk Ln Rm UNC

Jenkens, Charles Augustus, 1850- 279

The Bride's Return; or How Grand Avenue Church Came to Christ. Charlotte: C. H. Robinson, 1911. 342pp. Novel by a well-known North Carolina Baptist minister describing a Christian church which had become chiefly a social club. A dedicated young minister reforms the erring congregation. Setting, the fictitious city of Woodville, in 1911. (E.J.B.) SL Sm UNC

Good Gumption or The Story of a Wise Fool. 280 Nashville, Tenn.: The Southwestern Company, 1907. 400pp. Satire by the Reverend C. A. Jenkins of Statesville intended as a protest against "sham, hypocrisy, cant and humbuggery." In the Rev. Heredity Bean he has an effective mouthpiece for his often penetrating comments on the foibles of mankind. (R.M.) UNC 68 Jerome

Jerome, Thomas Jefferson, 1859-1921. 281

Ku-Klux Klan No. 40. Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton, 1895. 259pp. At Westville [Yanceyville?] in August, 1870, several murders com- mitted by the Reconstructionists are charged to the innocent KKK. Carpetbagger judge Richard Farwell champions the unjustly accused and gains the hand of Minnie Wyland. Amateur melodrama. (R.W.)

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Johnson, Gerald White, 1890- 282

By Reason of Strength. New York: Minton, Balch, 1930. 221pp. Scottish preacher Donald Whyte and wife Catherine Campbell settle in Scotland County (Drowning Creek area) about 1800, clear land, and rear a family. As Donald's ministerial duties increase, Catherine takes over the farm. Outliving husband and children "by reason of strength," she watches the Civil War ravage family and property. Based on author's ancestors. (H.T.)

Number Thirty-Six. 283

New York: Minton, Balch, 1933. 315pp. From 1902 on, Rogersville [Thomasville] begins to grow into an industrial community with all its labor bitterness. Newspaperman Don Watson [the author?] has three often conflicting loyalties: the town, the workers, and his friend Sam Hoover, financial go-getter. Train No. 36 links Rogersville to the outside world. Excellent small- town atmosphere. (R.W.)

Johnson, James Ralph. 284

Big Cypress Buck. Chicago: Follett, 1957. 128pp. In Big Cypress Swamp [Onslow County] a young deer is cared for by old Pop Morgan till he can meet the dangers of the forest. The buck then survives alligators, bears, snakes, dogs, and hunters. A highly informative and well-written story of wildlife. Handsome scratchboard illustrations. Ages 9-14. (R.W.) Johnson 69

Johnson, Richard Carroll. 285

A Story of Six Loves. New York: Pageant, 1955. 52pp. Six short stories, two of which are set in Western North Carolina. "The Happy Lovers" and "Love Comes Calling" are thin and have a they-lived-happily-ever-after ending. (W. Bft.) Hk UNC WnB

Johnston, Mary, 1870-1936. 286

Croatan. Boston: Little, Brown, 1923. 298pp. When Virginia Dare's parents and Manteo are slain by hostile Usherees, the threescore colonists retreat inland to Croatan Town in the Cherokee country "below the mountains." 25-year-old Vir- ginia, after 7 years among her Shawnee abductors, weds Englishman Miles Darling instead of her Spanish rescuer Ruy Valdes. All remain with the Cherokees. (R.W.)

Johnstone, Herrick. 287

The Secret Shot, or The Rivals of Misty Mount, a Romance of the Old North State. New York: Frank Starr & Co., 1874. 44pp. Typical dime novel romance set in the mountains of North Carolina during the Revolution. The beautiful mulatto daughter of the wealthy planter Henry Gwin, after his death, plots to destroy his whole family in retribution for their mistreatment of her. Kings Mountain figures in the plot. (R.M.) UNC WnB

Jones, Hamilton C. See Watterson, Henry

Jones, Katharine M., 1900- , editor. 288

New Confederate Short Stories. Columbia, S. C: University of South Carolina Press, 1954. 202pp. When James Street's Yankee teacher finds "I Am Not a Stranger" true in small-town "Lystra," he has to decide whether or not to leave Lystra's Confederate legend unique. In the other story laid in North Carolina, Frances Patton's "Let It Rest," Civil War references threaten an intersectional friendship in Durham. (K.W.H.) 70 Jones

Jones, Major, pseud. See Thompson, William Tappan

Kahler, Hugh MacNair, and Donald Grant Herring. 289

Mclvor's Folly. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1925. 287pp.

David Mclvor, an austere Scotsman, is constantly confronted with underhanded dealing and unfair play intended to force him to dis- pose of his timberland. He is finally successful in thwarting his enemies and in working out a plan of his own—that of helping himself and others. (R.R.) Hk Lb Lx Rm SL UNC Wm WnB

Kaler, James Otis, 1848-1912. 290

Boy Spies With the Regulators, by James Otis, pseud. New York: A. L. Burt, 1901. 303pp. Two sixteen-year-olds who suddenly find they are men fight in the ranks with the Regulators against Governor Tryon at the Battle of Alamance, May 16, 1771. (C.T.L.)

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Kane, Harnett Thomas, 1910- 291

The Gallant Mrs. Stonewall. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1957. 320pp. Fictionalized biography of the "Stonewall" Jacksons from 1853 until his death ten years later in the Civil War. Mary Anna Morrison stands loyally by her husband for she knows he can overcome his "differentness" and amount to something. Only their great love and deep faith see them through many tragedies. (V.W.P.)

Karig, Walter, 1898- 292

Don't Tread on Me. New York: Rinehart & Company, 1954. 442pp. This novel of John Paul, later Jones, begins in New England and shifts to North Carolina as Jones flees a British murder charge and seeks friends in the new world. With a commission from the Con- tinental Congress Jones carries the American Revolution to Eng- land's shores. (E.vO.) Kelly 71

[Kelly, Jonathan Falconbridge], 1817-1855. 292a

The Humors of Falconbridge: A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes. Philadelphia: T. B. Pererson, 1856. 436pp. Fifty-three brief sketches, mostly humorous, about ordinary people and their adventures in living. One, "Andrew Jackson and His Mother," is set in North Carolina. (F.B.) DU

Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870. 293

Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835. 2 vols. Historical romance set in South Carolina during the American Revolution, culminating in the Battle of Kings Mountain. Chapters 50 through 55 are laid in Piedmont North Carolina: Gilbert-town (Rutherford County), Charlotte, the Yadkin and Catawba areas, and Iredell County. Some description of North Carolina scenery and life. (L.R.W.)

Kennedy, Sarah Beaumont, 1888-1920. 294

Joscelyn Cheshire. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1903. 338pp.

A private Revolutionary battle is waged between spirited Royalist, Joscelyn Cheshire, and strong-hearted Whig, Richard Clevering of Hillsboro'town. Suspense prevails as Richard escapes from a Tory prison-ship [1778] and when Joscelyn, her loyalty divided, hides spy Richard from the British. At war's end, a wounded Richard finally wins proud Joscelyn. (S.F.B.)

Kenyon, Charles R. 295

Won in Warfare. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, [1903]. 320pp. Frontier experiences of Jack Allyne, Britisher, before and during the Revolution, told from English viewpoint. Cherokees, Watauga Settlement, Battle of Kings Mountain appear; Rutherford, Boone, Henderson, Shelby, and McDowell are characters. Allyne wins American girl in the end. (W.S.P.)

British Museum; UNC (microfilm) 72 Kerr

Kerr, Orpheus C, pseud. See Newell, Robert Henry.

Kester, Vaughan, 1869-1911. 296

The Prodigal Judge. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1911. 448pp. This story of a mountain family, plagued by mistaken identities, a disowned daughter, a drunken judge, and an evil gang, ends happily with real names assumed, a marriage performed, and an inheritance claimed by its rightful owner. (M.P.F.)

Key, Alexander Hill, 1904- 297

Cherokee Boy. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1957. 176pp.

Youthful Tsi-ya is sent West with other Cherokees from Western North Carolina in 1838. From the start of the horrible journey, he intends to return. Escaping the soldiers, he leads four other youths safely through 500 miles of treacherous country to the valley haven of the Cherokees. Ages 12-16. (V.W.P.)

With Daniel Boone on the Caroliny Trail. 298 Philadelphia: Winston, 1941. 223pp. Daniel Boone and his father set out for the Yadkin River where they have acquired land. They meet three surveyors, one of whom is George Washington. Capture and escape from French and Indians come before the Boones reach the Yadkin. Ages 12-16. (K.E.H.)

Kirke, Edmund, pseud. See Gilmore, James R.

Kjelgaard, James Arthur, 1910- 299

Buckskin Brigade. New York: Holiday House and Junior Literary Guild, 1947. 310pp. A collection of stories about the men who fought nature and Indians to blaze the trail for the pioneer. They were wood runners, river- men, fur traders, scouts and mountain men. These stories cover the period from 1506 to 1884 in American history. One chapter, entitled "Croatan," has its setting on Roanoke Island and gives a new version of what became of the colonists. Ages 10-12. (L.G.H.) Kjelgaard 73

Rebel Siege. 300 New York: Holiday, 1943. 221pp. Experiences of Kinross McKenzie, 14-year-old son of a rifle maker. Due to chance he takes part in the Battle of Musgrove's Mill with Colonel Isaac Shelby. Later Kin and his father fight with Shelby and McDowell against the British at Kings Mountain. Ages 13-16. (J.E.B.)

Knox, Joe. 301

Little Benders. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1952. 255pp. Seventeen short stories in mountain dialect of the people and community of Little Ben in Western North Carolina. (V.W.P.)

Knox, Rose Bell, 1879- 302

Gray Caps. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1932. 304pp. This novel of 1859-1865 follows numerous members of the Forrest family of Avalon Plantation in Eastern Carolina, with scenes of the blockade in Wilmington, the hospital center of Raleigh, and the western backwoods. Ages 11-14 can get a rounded idea of North Carolina during the Civil War. (R.W.)

Marty and Company on a Carolina Farm. 303 Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1933. 280pp.

This is a story about country life in Eastern North Carolina (Kinston or Greenville area), including interesting incidents that have to do with 4-H Clubs. (L.G.H.)

Kroll, Harry Harrison, 1888- 304

Darker Grows the Valley. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1947. 400pp. A panoramic history of the Clinch family who migrated to the unsettled area of Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee, beginning during the Revolutionary War, up to the time of the Tennessee Valley Authority; 1778-1930's. (E.H.W.)

My Heart's In the Hills. 305 Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1956. 188pp. Barbara Estwicke, ambitious owner of a camp for girls near Ashe- 74 Kroll

ville, decides between two suitors, and between a university education and her camp. (W.S.P.)

Summer Gold. 306 Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1955. 176pp. Contemporary story of Western North Carolina, with good descriptions of the country between Asheville and Hendersonville, and around Blowing Rock. Barbara Estwicke, the heroine, starts a summer camp on recently inherited property, and almost loses her land through the machinations of unscrupulous lawyers. (M.P.F.)

L. C. W. See Wood, Lydia Cope

Lancaster, Bruce, 1896- , and Lowell Brentano, 1895- 307

Bride of a Thousand Cedars. New York: Stokes, 1939. 344pp. Honor, heroism, and love are the emotional elements appealed to in this story centered around the intrigues and social affairs in Ber- muda during the Civil War, when many ships were attempting to aid the Southern cause by running the Northern blockade. Some action takes place in Wilmington. (CM.A.)

Lancaster, Bruce, 1896- 308

Phantom Fortress. Boston: Little, Brown Co., 1950. 310pp.

This is a fictional story of the latter months of the Revolutionary War and of Captain Ross Pembroke, who after escaping from the British in Charleston, serves as a liaison officer with certain Revolu- tionary commanders until the final defeat of Cornwallis. Scenes at the Battle of Guilford Court House also figure in this story. (P.S.B.)

Lane, Elinor Macartney, 1864-1909. 309

Katrine. New York: Harper, 1909. 315pp.

In the hill country north of Charlotte is the extensive Ravenel Plantation, its master the self-indulgent, rich, young, aristocratic Francis Ravenel, in love with Katrine, a daughter of the Irish over- Latham 75

seer. Their love endures despite misunderstandings and separation when she is in Paris studying voice. A best-seller of its day. (R.W.) Av Ch Gs Hb Hk Rl UNC Wm WnB

Latham, Edythe. 310

The Sounding Brass. Boston: Little, Brown, 1953. 465pp. At the century's turn Marcus Chadley comes to Newton [Greens- boro] and soon sets up a paternalistic industrial empire. One of his sons attempts revolt, while the other follows the pattern. The granddaughter August finally makes a break with family tradition. Better than average study of the modern Southern upper class. (R.W.) WC has author's manuscript.

Lathrop, George Parsons, 1851-1898. 311

True, and Other Stories. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1884. 270pp. In True, a short romantic novel of postbellum Carteret County by Nathaniel Hawthorne's son-in-law, northerner Edward Lance discovers that beautiful Adela Reefe is descended from Gertrude Wylde, one of Raleigh's Lost Colonists. Lance promotes swamp reclamation and paper-making from "glutinous reeds" in rural Carteret. Several scenes are in New Bern. (R.W.) Av DU

Lawson, Laura Burnett. 312

Leonora, a Tale of the Great Smokies. New York: Neale Publishing Co., 1904. 247pp.

Set in Asheville and Swannanoa, this is a simple love story of Leonora, left alone in the world by the death of her foster parents, Obadiah and 'Tildy Hobson. In her desperate search for her real father, Leonora finds distinction and a romantic interest, George Bennett. (J.G.M.) Gs Rl UNC

Leavttt, Alga E., compiler. 313

Stories and Poems from the Old North State. Durham: The Seeman Printery, 1923. 324pp. Material in this volume was collected to preserve the literary efforts 76 Le Grand

of the women of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs. Two of the stories have North Carolina settings: "The House of Life" by Mary Pressly and "The Prodigals" by Mary E. Wells. (C.M.A.)

Le Grand, pseud. See Henderson, Le Grand

Lenski, Lois, 1893- 314

Blue Ridge Billy. Story of a small mountain boy who wants to learn to play the fiddle. This picture of Southern Appalachian mountain life is appealing and exciting. Ages 10-14. (P.B.M.)

Peanuts for Billy Ben. 315 Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1952. 128pp. Billy Ben, child of a tenant family [near Edenton?], had rather eat peanuts than work at hoeing and shelling although he has many adventures during the peanut season. When the peanuts go to market, he proves he is more important to his family than a big crop of peanuts. Ages 7-9. (V.W.P.)

Leon, Mita, pseud. See Rivenbark, Mrs. Robert W.

Leonard, Burgess, 1914- 316

One Man Backfield. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1953. 180pp. Whip Halloran, outstanding high school football player, decides to go to college. He keeps the school from dropping football and helps build an outstanding ball club. [Based on the UNC-NC State football rivalry when the two-platoon system was dropped.] (T.C.M.)

Phantom of the Foul Lines. 317 Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1952. 184pp.

Mickey Barton, 5' 6" basketball star, is turned down by the two top teams in the conference. When the school in the conference cellar ["old" Wake Forest] gives him a scholarship, Mickey sparks them to the conference championship. (T.C.M.) Ab Ch Fc Gb Gs Gv Lk Lx Mg UNC Leonard 77

Rookie Southpaw. 318 Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1951. 218pp. Clem Gompers, North Carolina farm lad and outstanding baseball player, wants to accept an athletic scholarship to a state university. Because of family complications, he must become a "major league bonus baby." Despite much hostility from other players, he makes good and wins the most important game of the season. (T.C.M.)

Victory Pass. 319

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1950. 221pp.

Melville College ["old" Wake Forest] is the scene of this football story. Coach Ruppert attempts to introduce professionals to play on the college team. Dean McCloud's son sees the danger and pleads that money spent on legitimate scholarships over the years would have prevented this. (D.D.) Ab AS Ch Dr Fy Gb Kn Rl Sm UNC

Lesesne, Mary Richardson. 320

Torpedoes; or Dynamite in Society. Galveston, Texas: Shaw & Blaylock, 1883. 351pp. A North Carolina girl of good family falls in love with a stranger. Cleared of a charge of robbing his employer, the young man is later hanged for the murder of a gambler. The girl eventually finds happiness with the minister who had sought unsuccessfully to influence her lover. (A.D.G.) Av SL

Lewis, Alfred Henry. 321

When Men Grew Tall, or the Story of Andrew Jackson. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1907. 331pp. Poorly written, sentimental, fictionalized biography of Andrew Jackson. First two chapters have Salisbury as a North Carolina setting. Good paper and print; illustrated with old prints. (M.C.H.)3 Av DU UNC

Lewis, Charles Bertrand, 1842-1924. 322

Mad Dan, the Spy of 1776. New York: Beadle and Adams, 1873. 154pp. The Battle of Kings Mountain figures in this Revolutionary romance set in the North Carolina mountains. Feeble-minded Mad Dan acts 78 Life

as go-between for Mollie Graham, daughter of a Tory, and her lover, an American captain. Little literary style but surprisingly readable and with good characterizations. (M.C.H.)3 UNC

323 The Life, Confession and Execution of the Jew and Jewess, Gustavus Linderhoff, and Fanny Victoria Talzingler, where were Hung in Asheville, North Carolina, Oct. 27, 1855, For the Triple Murder of Abner, Benjamin, and Charles Ecclangfeldt, Three Orphan Children, Who Were Left to the Guardianship of the Villain Linderhoff, Together with Twenty Thousand Dollars. Baltimore: A. R. Orton, 1856. 50pp. Anti-Semitic propaganda disguised as factual information. Gustavus Linderhoff, proprietor of Asheville's first pawnshop, is persuaded by his mistress to murder his three young cousins for gain. Discovered, the pair are lynched. Crude, sensational style. (M.C.H.) 3 UNC

Life in the United States, A Collection of Narratives of 324 Contemporary Life from First-Hand Experience or Observation. New York: Scribner's, 1933. 324pp. Only one of the narratives in this collection deals with North Caro- lina. "Drummer's Rest," by Edward Hilts, is an account of life in an old-fashioned boarding house in Murphy, where delicious, bounti- ful meals are served, and a homey atmosphere prevails. Delight- fully written; dialect of both Negroes and mountain people. (M.M.H.) UNC WC

Lincoln, Andrew Carey. 325

Motorcycle Chums in the Land of the Sky; or Thrilling Adventures on the Carolina Border. Chicago: Donohue, 1912. 230pp. Four young boys from the North seek adventure in the mountains around Asheville, finding sheriffs, runaway horses, hospitable Southerners, moonshiners, and finally a long-lost brother. Medi- ocre tale, boys 12-16. (V.T.L.)

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Little, Luther, 1872-1953. 326

Manse Dwellers. Charlotte: Presbyterian Standard Publishing Co., 1927. 314pp. A simple, fairly readable narrative of the very human life of a minister and his family, in the early 1900's, possibly in Charlotte. The account covers the minister's entire life, and incidents in the lives of the parishioners almost form subplots. (S.N.) Av Ch DC Fc Gs Mg Sb SL UNC

Little Alma; a True Story of Early Piety. 327 Raleigh: Raleigh Baptist Sabbath School, 1868. 48pp. Blessed little Alma's five brief years on earth exert an ennobling influence on all her family and friends. Indeed, she must have had a presentiment of death, for while her playmates built sand castles, Alma dug graves. Typical Victorian Sunday School literature. (M.C.H.)3 UNC

Lookabee, Emmitt, pseud. See Strickland, William Herman

Lortng, Emilie. 328

Rainbow at Dusk. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. 311pp. A young Northern girl who comes to stay with an aunt at her ancestral home, Karrisbrooke [near Fayetteville], in September, 1941, finds love and espionage activities in a war-time setting. (P.B.M.)

Lucas, John Paul, Jr., and Bailey T. Groome, -1934. 329

The King of Scuffletown: A Croatan Romance. Richmond: Garrett & Massie, 1940. 238pp.

This book is confused because it lies midway between fiction and history. It tells the story of Henry Berry Lowrie, famed Croatan Indian outlaw of the 1860's in Robeson County. The climaxes are exciting; the characters and the locale are vivid. (R.W.)

Lumpkin, Grace. 330

To Make My Bread. New York: Macaulay, 1932. 384pp. The McClure family's brave struggle for survival, first on their mountain farm, later in the mills of Leesville [Gastonia], culminates 80 Lynde

in the violent death of Bonnie McClure Calhoun [Ella May Wiggins] in the strike of 1929. Her brother turns to Communism for salvation. A sincere, unsentimental, moving proletarian novel. (M.C.)i AS DU Mg Ty

Lynde, Francis, 1856-1930. 331

The Master of Appleby. N. Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, 1902. 581pp. A swashbuckling, fictitious "autobiography" of Captain John Ireton, Piedmont patriot, who believed his beloved Margery Stair, a turncoat Tory's daughter, to be in love with his best friend, Richard Jennifer. Furthering the story are historical personages of "Appleby Hundred" estate, Mecklenburg County, and Revolutionary Kings Mountain, Cowpens, and Cowan's Ford. (C.G.D.) DC DU Rl UNC Wm

McCabe, Nicholas. 332

Other Fires; or The Story of Tsali. Kingsport, Tennessee: Southern Publishers, 1940. 129pp. A vivid picture of Indian life and of the sacrifice made by Tsali and his sons to save the Cherokees and their homes in the Smoky Moun- tains of North Carolina in the 1830's. Tsali, his brother, and two of his sons are executed by a firing squad. (M.J.B.) Av Bk Bn Ch Nl

McChesney, Dora Greenwell, 1871-1912. 333

The Wounds of a Friend. London: Smith, Elder, 1908. 306pp. In England and on Roanoke Island in 1587-89, hero Robert Tre- mayne's one passion is the firm establishment of the colony. To aid

it, he strikes down his friend, denies his beloved lady, and defies the Queen. Returning secretly to Roanoke, he plunges into the forest when the Spanish threaten. (R.W.) Boston Public Library

McClelland, Margaret Greenway, -1895. 334 Oblivion: an Episode. New York: Henry Holt, 1885. 290pp. During a flood in Cherokee County, a beautiful unidentified woman is saved by handsome mountaineer Dick Corbyn, though her child McClung 81

is lost. A victim of amnesia, she goes to live with Dick's folks and becomes engaged to him. Her memory restored, she returns to her husband. Undistinguished mountain local-color fiction. (R.W.) LC

McClung, John Alexander, 1804-1859. 335

Camden; A Tale of the South, [anon.] Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1830. 2 vols. A stilted story of fighting in the vicinity of the North Carolina- South Carolina border during the Revolution. North Carolina troops and North Carolinians appear although the setting is mythical "Marysville ... on the road from Camden to Charlotte, and nearly midway between." Battles of Camden, Cowpens, action in the Waxhaws, and reference to Salisbury occur. (W.S.P.) DU

McClure, Marjorie Barkley, 1882- 336

John Dean's Journey. New York: Minton, Balch & Co., 1932. 323pp. A slow-moving story of a poor lad who leaves his Thyatira, Yadkin Valley farm home, in the late nineteenth century, to seek an entirely new life. Although his trail leads West, then back to Detroit and Connecticut, John Dean's real "journey" is his transition from poverty-stricken youngster to renowned writer. (M.L.P.)

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McConnaughey, James, 1908- 337

Village Chronicle. Murray Hill, N. Y.: Farrar & Rinehart, 1936. 357pp. The immature struggle of Joel Adams, a young, idealistic University of North Carolina English instructor, against what he considers academic injustices, related with accompanying sensational incidents in the life of the small-town college community in the early 1930's. (P.W.)

McCora, Patrick William, 1898- 338

The Unknown Volunteer, by Daly Wise, pseud. Boston: Meador Publishing Co., 1937. 236pp. Burt Arey joins the Air Force during the First World War, and the 82 McCULLERS

reader follows his remarkable career from West Point to France and finally to his return home bringing his bride with him. Salisbury names used throughout, but the setting is New York City. (M.L.) Sb

McCullers, Carson Smith, 1917- 339

Reflections in a Golden Eye. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. 183pp. This Gothic novella, with setting on a peacetime army post [Fort Bragg], is peopled by a variety of pathological characters. Two officers, a soldier, a Filipino, two women, and a horse (the horse, alone, is normal) move swiftly towards tragedy and murder. (R.W.)

McCurry, Betsy, pseud. See Moore, Bertha Belle

MacDuffie, Laurette, 1906- 340

The Stone in the Rain. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1946. 246pp. Smouldering violence of the vulgar newly rich underlies the calm exterior of Somerset [Wilmington]. Luther Perrin, who never rated with the older aristocrats, is fascist in feeling and action. Pene- trating study of an unpleasant element in Southern society. (R.W.)

MacFadyen, Virginia. 341

Bittern Point. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. 214pp. Within this weak psychological mystery, set at "Bittern Point" on the Connecticut shore, are segments of another novel being written by Moira Yelverton concerning pirate renegades near Edenton in 1717. There are hair-raising similarities in Moira's novel to murders in Connecticut. "I've brought the pirates to life," Moira realizes, horrified. (R.W.) As Dr NCC SL Sm UNC

McGirt, James Ephraim, 1874-1930. 342

The Triumphs of Ephraim. Philadelphia: McGirt Publishing Company, 1907. 131pp. Eight naive and inartistic short stories, settings mostly in the Pied- McLean 83

mont, of various phases of Negro life. Usually, the white man, always benevolent, befriends some ambitious Negro and helps him to overcome his adversary. Often, too, the hero wins a beautiful girl or is handed some large sum of money. (R.W.)

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McMeekin, Isabel McLennan, 1895- 343 Journey Cake. Eau Claire, Wis.: E. M. Hale and Co., 1942. 226pp. An exciting story about the Shadrow children and their colored nurse on their way from Yadkin Valley to Kentucky via the Daniel Boone trail. The date of the tale is 1793, and the presentation is excellent. Ages 8-12. (M.L.)

McNair, Colin. 344

The Sweet Old Days in Dixie, by Eddie McLean, pseud. Raleigh: Edwards and Broughton Printing Co., 1907. 180pp. This collection of reminiscenses and anecdotes about ante- and postbellum North Carolina has a heavy content of Negro dialect stories. Laid presumably in the eastern Piedmont section, the stories contrast the happy, carefree life of both Negroes and whites before the Civil War with the difficulties for both in the Reconstruction period. (L.R.W.) DU Rl SL UNC

McNeil, Kin. 345

Strange Stories of Carolina. Canton: South Literary Service, 1947. 42pp. A collection of nine short stories, including tales of mystery and weird events. Most of the settings are the North Carolina mountains in the nineteenth century. First in a series of regional publications by South Literary Service. Pen and ink drawings are used. (S.V.W.) Av Sb SL UNC WC Wm Ws

McSpadden, Joseph Walker, 1874- 345a Storm Center. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1947. 393pp. This fictionalized biography of Raleigh-born President Andrew 84 Marquand

Johnson is an entertaining story. The story, from "Runaway Appren- tice" to "Political Scapegoat," as the first and last books are titled, is told as if written by one who knew him well. (W.S.P.)

Marquand, John Phillips, 1893- 346

Sincerely, Willis Wayde. Boston: Little, Brown, 1955. 511pp. Willis Wayde, at times somewhat unconsciously sacrificing old loyalties and personal values, progresses gradually in the world of business to become president of a large belting industry. The set- ing shifts from Massachusetts to the Middle West with only one reference to North Carolina when Willis attends a business meeting at Pinehurst. (C.H.)

Marshall, Robert K., 1901- 347

Julia Gwynn: an American Gothic Tale. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1952. 228pp. At Tatesboro [Dobson?] in the mid 1920's, this sequel to Little Squire Jim takes up the story of the Little Squire's aunt, who on the day she died, rode into town from fabulous Gwynn Place and admitted shooting her husband 20 years before for consorting with a mulatto woman. Uneven. (R.W.)

Little Squire Jim. 348 New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1949. 255pp. An atmosphere of ballad singing and folk superstition hangs over this Gothic story of a mountain lad and his impossible feats [in Surry County]. Little Squire Jim, who catches the imagination of the Cove folk, rides an almost human horse on his visits to the red- haired girls. Excellent story-telling. (R.W.)

Martenet, May Davies. 349 Taw Jameson. New York: Knopf, 1953. 325pp. The narrator, mountain-born Taw, comes to Heywood [Greensboro] and becomes involved in the affairs of the wealthy Heywood family. As chauffeur and butler, he serves as protector of the girl Chloe against her social-climbing mother. The scene moves to Blowing Rock, New York, and London. A tour de-force. (R.W.) \ w m, a & t m

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Martin, Frances Gardiner McEntee, 1906- 350

Pirate Island. New York: Harper, 1955. 215pp. After Tom and Job Garrish leave Virginia to search for their father, they are separated in Carolina. Tom is chosen to carry an important message which helps rid the waters of the terror of pirates off the North Carolina coast near Bath. Tom and his brother are later reunited with their father. Ages 12-16. (E.R. McL.) Bk Gb Kn Lb UNC Ws

Mason, Francis van Wyck, 1901- 351

Golden Admiral. Garden City: Doubleday, 1953. 453pp.

In Book III, "The Werowance," of this novel of Sir Francis Drake's adventures 1588-88, the Golden Admiral comes to aid the First Colonists at Roanoke Island. The colonists, discouraged and dis- united, sail with Drake for England when a storm destroys the supply ships Drake planned to leave with them. (R.W.)

Mason, Mary Ann Bryan, 1802-1881. 352

A Wreath from the Woods of Carolina.

New York: . . . Church Book Society, 1859. 154pp.

This is the earliest North Carolina book written for children. Most of the 10 stories are set on the banks of the Trent River, near New Bern. In didactic, sentimental fashion, various Carolina wild flowers direct the attention of good (too good!) children to the pathway towards heaven. Eleven handsome illustrations. (R.W.) Av DU SL UNC WC

Mathes, Charles Hodge. 353

Tall Tales from Old Smoky. Kingsport, Tenn.: Southern Publishers, Inc., 1952. 241pp. Sixteen stories about mountain people by a professor at East Tennessee State College. Most are set in Tennessee but two, "The Curin'est Remedy" and "A Saga of the Carolina Hills" [true account of the Elisha Mitchell tragedy], are definitely North Carolina tales. Excellent, accurate mountain dialect. (F.B.) Mathis 87

Mathis, Alexander, 1887-1955. 354

The Lost Citadel. New York: Pageant Press, 1954. 273pp. Straight narrative, with little plot, of the various Roanoke voyages and colonies. Manteo leads the 1587 survivors inland and, as the story ends, is educating 8-year-old Virginia Dare. (R.W.) Av Lk Lx Rl SL Sm UNC

Meade, Julian Rutherford, 1909-1940. 355 Teeny and the Tall Man. New York: Doubleday and Co., 1936. 155pp. The imaginative story of a friendship between five-year-old Teeny and very tall Mr. Jones, who lives in a town near her Eastern North Carolina country home in the 1930's. When Teeny goes to New York City to school, Mr. Jones goes too and helps relieve Teeny's homesickness for the country. (H.T.T.)

Meader, Stephen Warren, 1892- 356 The Sea Snake. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1943. 255pp.

In early World War II, Barney Cannon, 16-year-old son of a fisher- man, accepts duty at a Volunteer Lookout Post near Kitty Hawk. While reconnoitering a suspected German submarine base nearby, he is captured and put aboard an enemy U-boat, the Sea Snake, but eventually escapes. Well-told, exciting. Boys 11-15. (R.W.)

Meek, Sterner St. Paul, 1894- 357

Surfman: the Adventures of a Coast Guard Dog. New York: Knopf, 1950. 267pp. With his Chesapeake retriever "Surfman," Curly Graham reports for duty at the Cape Hatteras Life Boat Station. Besides pursuing adventurous duties in calm weather and hurricane, Curly clears a mystery concerning his father. Authentic background of Coast Guard life on the lonely Outer Banks, written from actual knowledge. Ages 12-16. (R.W.)

Melton, Frances Jones. 358

A Daughter of the Highlanders. Boston: Roxburgh, 1910. 376pp. The story centers around Ruth MacKenzie, a young orphan descended 88 Merwin

from a Scottish family who came to Eastern North Carolina (vicinity of Dunn and Fayetteville) in the time of Flora Macdonald. Three lovers complicate her life in the home of a cultured and wealthy aunt. Very flowery style. (M.H.) GC NCS Rl UNC WC

Merwin, Decie. 359

Where's Teresa?

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1956. 28pp. Teresa, a tiny girl, lives with her two older brothers and her mother. Her habit of running away from home is interestingly solved by the family. This story for ages 4-6 is based on an actual situation the author observed in Southern Pines. (R.W.) Av Gs Kn Lb Ln SL Wm

Metcalf, Paul C. 360

Will West. Asheville: Jonathan Williams, 1956. 68pp.

Will West, a Cherokee baseball player, murders a girl, then escapes to his mountain home, has a brush with law-enforcement officers, and heads west. The author uses Cherokee legends, the tale of De Soto, and other history to give emphasis to the hero's actions and flight. Style both poetic and realistic. (R.W.)

Meyer, Gladys Eleanor, 1908- 361

The Magic Circle. New York: Knopf, 1944. 314pp.

Just before World War II, Katharine Hartman comes as a social worker to Coleville [Winston-Salem], smug, aristocratic, and narrow. While advanced social ideas are presented, the satire is not harsh. Well-written, but the section on North Carolina (pp. 213- 258) is unimportant as far as the novel's thesis is concerned. (R.W.) Av Dr UNC Ws Wy

Micheaux, Oscar, 1884- 362

The Masquerade. New York: Book Supply Co., 1947. 401pp. Based on a short story by Charles W. Chesnutt, this novel tells of two children of a white planter and a slave who cross the color Miller 89

line. Setting is Fayetteville, Charleston, and Sampson County between 1857 and the 1870's. (W. Bft.) DU WnB

Miller, David Reed. 363

The Red Swan's Neck: A Tale of the North Carolina Mountains. Boston: Sherman, French, 1911. 328pp. Gyp Stybright, uneducated North Carolina mountain lad, falls in love with Aida Moncure, beautiful, educated Northern girl. Both suffer harrowing experiences in the Civil War. Gyp goes to school and Aida abroad after the war, but some years later they find each other and all is well. For teen-agers. (C.J.P.)

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Miller, Helen Topping, 1884- 364

The Flaming Gahagans. Philadelphia: Penn, 1933. 309pp. A well written story of the clannish Gahagan family whose experiences take place in Malvern, a Piedmont North Carolina town, during the 1930's. Abby, attractive red-headed daughter, narrowly escapes sacrificing her own happiness to save her brother from prison and her father from financial worries. (M.C.H)i UNC

Hawk in the Wind. 365 New York: Appleton-Century, 1938. 256pp. Mrs. Virgie Morgan, a widow, owns a pulp mill in the mountains of North Carolina. Accidents, labor trouble, and "outsiders" buying up timber lands are about to bring the mill to bankruptcy when Marian Morgan and young Branford Mills expose the villain. (K.E.H.)

The Horns of Capricorn. 366 New York: Appleton, 1950. 282pp. Lydia Neary Keeling inherits her family homeplace in Eastern Carolina and goes there to live [c. 1900] with daughters Frances and Taffy. An ancient feud with the neighboring Cavitts creates complications, but in the marriage of Frances and Fox Cavitt all ends happily. Typed characters and unsophisticated dialogue. Ages 12-16. (G.E.) Miller

Love Comes Last. 367 Philadelphia: Perm, 1936. 315pp. In a small unnamed Southern city [with echoes of Asheville material], the proud Tavenner family has been ruined by the depression. The father has been jailed for a bank failure. A woman is writing a novel which will deal with the actual people in the town. Romance element is strong. (R.W.)

Sharon. 368 Philadelphia: Penn, 1931. 311pp. Sharon Battle Mallory returns with her invalid husband and child to the Great Smoky Mountain region to farm the soil where earlier the Battles had failed to challenge and defeat fate. (M.E.W.) DU Fc Hk Mg SL UNC

Slow Dies the Thunder. 369 Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1955. 310pp. A story of the Revolution with down-to-earth human beings fighting for life and country. The climax comes at the Battle of Kings Mountain. (M.B.M.)

The Sound of Chariots, a Novel of John Sevier and 370 the State of Franklin. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1947. 288pp. A pleasurable story of the Marots, who seek refuge from the Revolu- tion in the Carolina mountains, where Lisle is trapped into marrying Raleigh Bevan. With the war's end, Bevan's shady Indian land dealings lead to his downfall; and Lisle and Giles Hanna are united in the newly-established State of Franklin. (B.W.D.)

Splendor of Eagles. 371 Philadelphia: Penn, 1935. 312pp. When her mother remarries, Mikell Hare finds herself expected to make her home with her father in Western Carolina. In the months that follow, Mikell begins to understand her father, a respected but aloof pulp mill king who cannot be satisfied with small things or half-measures. (M.E.W.) AS Fc Hk Mg SL Sm UNC

Whispering River. 372 New York: Appleton-Century, 1936. 280pp. Handsome young university graduate Wayland Gannett, stranded Mills 91

at his grandparents' home in a tidewater North Carolina town during the depression, finds his life complicated by the conflicting claims of a rich debutante, the parson's gracious daughter, and the high-spirited Portuguese fisher-girl. (E.J.E.) Dr DU Fc Gs Hk Kn Lb Mg SL UNC

Mills, Mary Hampton. 373

Be Ye Beggar or King. Asheville: Advocate Publishing Co., [1925]. 176pp. Audrey Ross, simple and beautiful country girl in Western North Carolina, falls in love with Philip Ewing who has come to the country to restore his health. He turns out to be a wealthy socialite who wants to exchange the hectic city life for country living. All ends happily. (T.T.) BwR SL UNC

Mitchell, Joseph Quincy, 1908- 374

McSorley's Wonderful Saloon. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943. 253pp. The last three stories are genuinely humorous character episodes of Black Ankle [Robeson] County: "The Downfall of Fascism in Black Ankle County," a take-off on the KKK; "I Blame It All on Mamma," about a drunken, comic, "ordinary" woman; and "Uncle Dockery and the Independent Bull." (R.W.)

Moore, Bertha Belle, 1890- 375

As By Fire. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1939. 192pp. Peggy Tavenner has to leave home [Spindale or Rutherfordton?] to realize how little meaning her life has because of her own contrari- ness and un-Christian behavior. Peggy finds happiness by marrying Martin Poe. Ages 12-16. (M.E.W.) Hk Mg SL UNC

Autumn on Breezy Hill, by Betsy McCurry, pseud. 376 Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1956. 56pp. Janey and Johnny spend a happy autumn with Aunt Susann and Uncle Dan on their farm, "Breezy Hill," [Rutherford County]. (W.S.P.) UNC 02 Moore

The Baer's Christmas. 377 Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1939. 86pp. The happiest way to spend a happy Christmas. Ages 7-12. (M.B.M.)

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Black Top. 378 Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1956. 151pp.

When the new highway is cut through the Morland place [author's home, Rutherford County], Mark and Mary take in several workers as boarders. As the job progresses, right-of-way troubles and other difficulties arise. The Morland niece marries a surveyor; and a drinker is reformed through Mary's efforts. Unpretentious Christian fiction. (R.W.) UNC

Bread for the Hungry, by Brenda Cannon, pseud. 379 Chicago: Moody Press, 1940. 159pp. When David Blair hears Dr. Hart [Dr. John Lake] talk at Bunker Hill Academy [South Mountain Institute near Forest City] about his work among the lepers on Tai-Kam Island he is incredulous, but eventually he himself becomes a missionary to the Island. (M.B.M.)

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Dan and Jack Find a Pal, by Brenda Cannon, pseud. 380 Chicago: Moody Press, 1955. 127pp. Dan and Jack, 10-year-old orphans at missionary school [South Mountain Institute, Rutherford County], become "big brothers" to younger boys at the "Ark," accept Jesus as their Pal, and are bap- tized. This religious story of very pious children is for ages 8-10. (R.W.) UNC

Doctor Happy. 381 Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1938. 184pp. In a small North Carolina town [Forest City] a broken family, a semi-invalid father, an unhappy younger sister, a pleasure-loving mother, a bad cold plus a consecrated, determined young optometrist make up a simple novel with a happy ending. (M.B.M.)

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Eyes Unto the Hills. 382 Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1951. 192pp. Patricia Patterson, teacher in a North Carolina Mountain mission school [South Mountain Institute], reluctantly leaves to be with her sick mother in Kansas City. Here she teaches for a year, inspiring and loving the city pupils as she did those in the mountains, but at last she and Tom return to her beloved mountains. (M.B.M.)

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From Palms to Pines. 383 Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1947. 181pp. Sam trades his native Cuba's palms for North Carolina's pines when he follows Elena Elliott from Miami, where they both worked, to her home in a small North Carolina town. He renounces his Roman Catholic faith in order to win the approval of her country-doctor father of their marriage. (M.B.M.)

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The Girl of the Listening Heart. 384 Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1937. 182pp. Elizabeth Ann Ellison's ambition to become a writer and get away from her farm home [in Rutherford County] leads her to a sophisticated group in Charlotte. After some unpleasant incidents, she realizes she will be happier in her old neighborhood and with the boy she has known all her life. Ages 14-18. (E.M.C.)

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Go With Him Twain. 385 Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1941. 214pp. Simple tale of a city girl from Shelby who marries an apple farmer in the foothills of the Blue Ridge. A tree-killing frost and other trials threaten their marriage, but ultimately it is only strengthened by adversity. (M.B.M.)

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The Healing Hills, by Betsy McCurry, pseud. 386 Findlay, Ohio: Fundamental Truth Publishers, 1941. 175pp. Kenneth Parker, after serving 20 years in prison for making whiskey, returns home to avenge himself. He soon learns that no one has deserted him and that all have longed for his return. He marries Moore his former sweetheart and dedicates himself to the fight against whiskey and bootlegging. (T.T.) UNC

The Jolly J's Have a Reunion, by Brenda Cannon, pseud. 387 Chicago: Moody Press, 1952. 128pp.

In this fourth of the "Christian novels" about the Jolly J's of Silver Creek Knob. Jim returns wounded from Korea and is married to his nurse; and Josephine falls in love with a young preacher. (R.W.) SL UNC

The Jolly J's Make Decisions, by Brenda Cannon, pseud. 388 Chicago: Moody Press, 1951. 125pp. In addition to farming and raising cattle, the three Jolly brothers and sister complete two years of college [Gardner- Webb]. The older brother, Jim, is ordained as a minister and volunteers as an Army chaplain. Jack is married to a neighborhood girl. Juvenile Christian fiction. (R.W.) SL UNC

The Jolly J's of Silver Creek, by Brenda Cannon, pseud. 389 Chicago: Moody Press, 1949. 126pp. The Jollys inherit some money and their mountain acres from an uncle. Then they start farming, begin college, and build a church on Silver Creek. (R.W.) SL UNC

Joy Shop Stories. 390 Springfield, Mo.: Gospel Publishing House, 1929. 72pp. From Granny's room, "The Joy Shop," she tells Helen and Hubert, the twins, stories about her work in a mountain school. She pictures some of the students attending the school. She tells them about the "prayer stove" and the "love cabin" of the school children. (K.W.H.) Fc UNC

Laborers Together. 391 Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1952. 206pp. After an automobile wreck caused her much suffering, Joyce Connelly, the owner of a beauty shop in Forest City, comes to Moore 95 realize that the greatest thing in life is to be a "Laborer together with Christ." (M.B.M.) Fc Mg UNC

Mercy Forever. 392 Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1954. 220pp. When Paul Morgan, of a Western North Carolina village [Weaver- ville?], is found dead on his office floor, George Munday, not one of the "first families" of the village, is suspected. George proves his innocence and receives a wonderful reward. (M.B.M.) Fc Hk Mg UNC

On Silver Creek Knob, by Brenda Cannon, pseud. 393 Chicago: Moody Press, 1939. 123pp. Teen-age orphans Jim, Josephine, and Jack Jolly spend the summer at a mountain cabin [actual setting near her home in Golden Valley Township in northeast Rutherford County, according to author]. After a brush with bootleggers, they succeed in establishing a Sun- day School for the illiterate mountain children. Christian juvenile fiction. (R.W.) SL UNC

Ordered Steps. 394 Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1940. 192pp.

Caroline Wynn, Tar Heel mountain girl, loses her sight and is taken to Philadelphia by wealthy vacationers who give her a singing career and medical attention to restore her sight. She falls in love and marries. Pleasant surprise ending. (W.S.P.) Ru SL UNC

Rock of Decision. 395 Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1931. 259pp. Because Phoebe Bradford, living in the Blue Ridge Mountains [of Rutherford County], can not understand at first why Christians have to suffer, she almost hates God. Through experience she learns God's place in her life. (M.B.M.) Fc SL UNC

Silver Creek's Camp Jolly, by Brenda Cannon, pseud. 396 Chicago: Moody Press, 1954. 128pp. This fifth of the Jolly J's series tells how the Silver Creek folks Moore form a Community Club and set up a summer camp to accommodate vacation groups. Josephine and her husband, a young preacher who is a Korean War veteran, settle down to operate the camp. (R.W.) SL UNC

Spring on Breezy Hill, by Betsy McCurry, pseud. 397 Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1952. 56pp. Janey and Johnny spend a happy spring with Aunt Susann and Uncle Dan on their North Carolina farm, "Breezy Hill." (C.S.L.) UNC

Strength of the Hills, by Brenda Cannon, pseud. 398 Chicago: Moody, 1952. 252pp. Seeking health, Mark Murray in 1850 resigns his professorship in Virginia and, with his family, settles in the foothills of the Blue Ridge [Rutherford County]. Life is severe, but the Murrays are happy, even though the Civil War brings tragedy. Religious fiction. (R.W.) Fc UNC

Summer on Breezy Hill, by Betsy McCurry, pseud. 399 Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1955. 57pp. Janey and Johnny spend a happy summer with Aunt Susann and Uncle Dan on their [Rutherford County] farm, "Breezy Hill." (W.S.P.) UNC

These, My People. 400 Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1942. 168pp.

It is natural for "Miss" Eunice Harrison to do volunteer jobs in World War II, for the community [in Rutherford County] is her family. Her home is opened to victims of war and disaster. (K.W.H.) Fc UNC

The Three Baers. 401 Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1938. 88pp. Introducing Iona, Iva, and Ted in their happy varied experiences in any small North Carolina town. Ages 7-12. (M.B.M.) Fc Mg SL UNC Moore 97

To These Also. 402 Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1946. 216pp.

Marcos Carvajal, living in Cuba, is won to Christ by an American woman who becomes his best friend. He is sent to Atlanta and from there to Hillsdale College [Mars Hill College]. After his gradu- ation he returns to Cuba and his life's work and joys. (M.B.M.)

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The Touch of Polly Tucker. 403 Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1952. 189pp. A florist shop [in Forest City] and a country home in the Blue Ridge foothills provide the setting for this story of the two loves of Janet Owens. Polly Tucker, owner of the shop, helps Dave Harbison, "God's man," win Janet's heart. (M.B.M.)

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The Triplets Fly High. 404 Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1950. 87pp. A flying trip to Cuba brings opportunity for Christian testimony to three youngsters from a small North Carolina town. Ages 7-12. (M.B.M.)

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The Triplets Go Places. 405 Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1945. 72pp. The triplets help on the farm. Later daily visits to a friend in the hospital give them an opportunity for service. (J.L.M.)

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The Triplets Go South. 406 Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1940. 86pp. Grand fun for three North Carolina youngsters on a trip to Florida to spend Easter with Aunt Mary. Ages 7-12. (M.B.M.)

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The Triplets Go to Camp. 407 Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1955. 83pp. The three Baers go to a summer church camp [Ridgecrest] where 98 Moore

Ted helps to redeem delinquent Sam. Good Sunday School material for 7 to 12. Chimney Rock is mentioned. (R.M.) UNC

Triplets in Business. 408 Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1939. 88pp. Baer & Co. mean business when things get going. A delightful adventure. Ages 7-12. (M.B.M.)

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The Triplets Make a Discovery. 409 Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1954. 89pp. The Baer family returns from California [to their North Carolina home] to find a strange couple occupying their basement. Detective work by the triplets solves the mystery. (W.S.P.)

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Triplets Over J.O.Y. 410 Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1941. 79pp. Radio broadcasting—and "junior" enters the picture. Ages 7-12. (M.B.M.)

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The Triplets Sign Up. 411 Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1943. 66pp. This Triplet story tells of the three Baers' successful efforts at operating a day nursery for working mothers during the war. Strong religious accent. Ages 7-12. (R.M.) UNC

The Triplets Take Over. 412 Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1953. 89pp. The Baer triplets take over the household chores when mother and father are out of town. (W.S.P.) UNC Moore 99

The Triplets Try Television. 413 Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1954. 86pp.

The three Baers on a new adventure—television . Setting: a small North Carolina town. (M.B.M.) Fc UNC

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The Liberty Boys after Cornwallis; or, Worrying the Earl. New York: Frank Tousey, 1905. 28pp. The Liberty Boys, sent by General Washington to the southern part of North Carolina, harass Cornwallis' army. Locale: New Hanover County, North Carolina and vicinity. Wooden style. (L.F.L.) UNC

The Liberty Boys and Capt. Huck, or, Routing a Wicked Leader. 415 New York: Frank Tousey, 1910. 26pp. The Liberty Boys, a company of Continental soldiers, hope to rally the patriots in the vicinity of Rocky Mount [South Carolina, although the author calls it North Carolina] to defeat Captain Huck, local Tory leader. Patriotic Bet Lloyd helps, too; General Sumter comes from Mecklenburg and in the ensuing action Huck is killed. (W.Bft.) WnB

The Liberty Boys and Flora Macdonald: or, after the Hessians. 416 New York: Frank Tousey, 1904. 28pp.

Cross Creek (Fayetteville) , North Carolina and vicinity in May, 1780, with the Liberty Boys skirmishing with the Hessians and North Carolina Tories and matching wits with Flora Macdonald. (L.F.L.) UNC

The Liberty Boys and General Greene; or, Chasing Cornwallis. 417 New York: Frank Tousey, 1903. 28pp. Further adventures of Dick Slater, who, scouting for General Greene after the Battle of Guilford Court House, is captured by the British but escapes and joins Greene in his chase of Cornwallis from Greensboro to Wilmington. Uninspired style. (L.F.L.) UNC 100 Moore

The Liberty Boys and Major Davie, or, Warm Work 418 in the Mecklenburg District. New York: Frank Tousey, 1922. 20pp. Twice captured but escaping from the Tories, Liberty Boys Captain Dick Slater spies on Cornwallis and informs Major William Davie of the British plans. With this knowledge and valiant help from the Liberty Boys, Davie breaks through the ring of Redcoats that had penned him up for a week, and roundly defeats them near Charlotte. Ages 12-16. (W. Bft.) WnB

The Liberty Boys and the Blind Boy; or, The 419 Strangest Spy of All. New York: Frank Tousey, 1908. 26pp. The Liberty Boys, intrepid defenders of American freedom, fight Tarleton and Redcoats from Cowpens to Guilford Court House, giving invaluable assistance and intelligence to Greene and Morgan. Their good friend and ally is a blind boy who, after 4 years, has his sight restored by a swat on the head. (W. Bft.) WnB

The Liberty Boys at Bay; or, The Closest Call of All. 420 New York: Frank Tousey, 1912. 26pp. With Cornwallis in hot pursuit of General Greene after the Battle of Cowpens, the Liberty Boys have the duty of fighting a rear guard action while Greene and his army cross the Dan River. Cornwallis reaches Hillsboro and two Liberty Boys, Dick Slater and Bob Esta- brook, follow as spies. (W. Bft.) WnB

The Liberty Boys at Guilford Courthouse; or, a Defeat. 421 that Proved a Victory. New York: Frank Tousey, 1905. 28pp. The Liberty Boys, under their leader, Dick Slater, experience many narrow escapes from the British in the winter of 1781, and, joining General Greene's army, take part in the Battle of Guilford Court House. (L.F.L.) UNC

The Liberty Boys at Hanging Rock; or, The 422 "Carolina Game Cock." New York: Frank Tousey, 1904. 28pp. Dick Slater, young patriot scout, spy, and captain of the Liberty Moore 101

Boys of '76, meets and overcomes a wide variety of exciting obstacles in the vicinity of the Catawba River as he carries a message to General Sumter. (W.S.P.) UNC

The Liberty Boys' Bugler or, Rousing the Minute Men. 423 New York: Frank Tousey, 1911. 16pp. Captain Dick Slater of the Liberty Boys enlists Billy Boutwell, age 15, as bugler. The plucky bugler sounds many alarms and aids in ruses to confuse the Tories and British around Rocky Mount [South Carolina, although the author calls it North Carolina]. The Liberty Boys join Sumter and attack Rocky Mount without success but with great valor. (W. Bft.) WnB

The Liberty Boys Clever Trick; or Teaching the 424 Redcoats a Thing or Two. New York: Frank Tousey, 1913. 28pp. Dick Slater and the Liberty Boys capture 100 Tories, spy on Corn- wallis, carry messages to General Greene, and always escape in the nick of time. (W. Bft.) WnB

The Liberty Boys Going It Blind; or, Taking Big Chances. 425 New York: Frank Tousey, 1920. 28pp. Northeastern North Carolina along the upper part of the Roanoke River is the locale of this adventure of Dick Slater, captain of a company of Patriots, the Liberty Boys, who manage, in this book, to inflict considerable damage upon a British regiment commanded by Tarleton. Undistinguished in style and presentation. (L.F.L.) UNC

3 The Liberty Boys Success; or, Doing What They Set Out to Do. 426 New York: Frank Tousey, 1913. 18pp. Dick Slater again spies on Cornwallis and captures Redcoats. This time he also rescues pretty maidens, foils assassins, and saves the homes of patriots from destruction. (W. Bft.) WnB 102 Moore

Moore, Harry F. S. 427

Murder Goes Rolling Along. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1942. 273pp. The Army medical personnel at Fort Bragg are involved in a murder-mystery during which Major Peters and widow Jane Masters develop an attachment. Authentic atmosphere: the summer heat of the sandhills; brief excursions to Fayetteville, Raeford, and Pine- hurst. Only average in plot interest. (R.W.) Ab Dr UNC

Moore, Ida L. 428

Like a River Flowing. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1941. 388pp. This pioneer chronicle centers about the Grist family of Barlow Cove [near Skyland], their joys and hardships and sorrows, during the last half of the nineteenth century. There is much about "witches," about troubles during the Civil War. The unadorned prose sometimes becomes monotonous. (R.W.)

Moore, John Wheeler, 1833-1906. 429

The Heirs of St. Kilda: a Story of the Southern Past. Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton, 1881. 473pp. Large antebellum plantations in the St. Kilda valley [the St. John community of southwest Hertford County] provide the setting for this lush, nostalgic, fantastically romantic yarn of horse racing, fox hunting, and the like. Philip Eustace travels in Europe, attends the State University [Chapel Hill], and marries his childhood sweetheart. (R.W.)

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Morehouse, Kathleen Moore. 430

Rain on the Just. New York: Lee Furman, 1936. 319pp. Least Dolly Allen, in the Brushy Mountains [of Wilkes County] just after the Civil War, loves the blackhaired scapegrace Bilow Bum- garner, whose child she bears. Meanwhile, there is a suicide, many fatherless births, some thievery, several murders, and other unpleasant matters. Folklore atmosphere, rhythmic mountain speech, naturalistic presentation. (R.W.) Morrill 103

Morrill, David. 431

The Pasing Clouds, [anon.] Atlanta: Franklin Printing and Publishing Co., 1903. 102pp. Short stories told to Dr. Morrill's children patients in Farmville over a period of years. Adventure and Negro stories to teach a moral and stories of medical school days. (B.W.R.) BwR

Morris, Donald R. 431a

Warm Bodies. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. 204pp. A young naval officer from New York, frequently in Norfolk, falls in love with a reporter who visits his ship for Christmas dinner. Her home (white columns and all) is in northeastern North Carolina where much of the story takes place. Humorous, skillfully written story of a wedding, possibly autobiographical. (W.S.P.) UNC

Morrison, Sarah Elizabeth, 1833- 432

Chilhowee Boys. New York: Crowell, 1893. 434pp. Two families containing several young boys travel from central North Carolina, through the Blue Ridge and along the French Broad, to Chilhowee Mountain in Tennessee, in 1811. The month-long journey is by wagon, gig, horse, and foot. Good story, based on family records. (V.T.L.) Av

Morrow, Decatur Franklin, 1856-1938. 433

Then and Now, Reminiscences and Historical Romance, 1856-1865.

Macon, Georgia: The J. W. Burke Company, 1926. 346pp.

December 13, 1863, was set for a mass slave uprising throughout the South, abetted by spies and Union sympathizers. In Rutherford County Lt. William Buster and Bill Sniffles of the home guard are able to gain an uneasy victory. At war's end Buster is united with his girl, Annie Lightfoot. (W. Bft.) Ch DU UNC WnB 104 Moss

Moss, Paul T. 434

The Rock Was Free. Philadelphia: Dorrance & Co., 1945. 174pp.

In a suspenseless, disjointed story, Peter Pickens is left responsible for the "Potrock Mountains" (Western North Carolina) homeplace by his father's departure for the Spanish-American War. When land-grabber Sewell attempts to take over the valley and Peter's girl, Lillee More, Peter seeks means of overcoming this threat to the section. (V.J.H.) Al Bn Ch Hk Lk Mg SL UNC Wm

Shadow of the Potrock. 435 Dallas: Southwest Press, 1932. 94pp. In this amateurish and poorly plotted novelette of the Nantahala mountain section, the disappearance of a cattle drover affects the lives of several families at the turn of the century. Dialect, forced humor, and such activities as hunting wild razorbacks are point- lessly jumbled. (R.W.) NCS

Mott, Edward Harold, 1845-1920. 436

The Black Homer of Jimtown. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1900. 286pp. These 18 Negro dialect stories by a Northern author are tall tales, ghost and witch yarns, and animal anecdotes. The narrator, Black Homer, lives at Jimtown "in the piney woods" of the Cape Fear country. The difficult dialect of these folklore pieces makes slow reading. (R.W.) DU UNC

Mozingo, Edgar, 1926- 437

Mama's Little Rascal. New York: Exposition Press, 1955. 104pp. Skeeter and Howie, mischievous teenager cousins in "Slam Bang" [really Mount Olive, according to the author], have abundant curi- osity about what goes on in their small town. They get into many jams throughout this episodic story of childhood experiences. For high-school age and adults. (R.W.)

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Murfree, Mary Noailles, 1850-1922. 438

Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains, by Charles Egbert Craddock, pseud. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1885. 308pp. This powerful study of a religious mountaineer tells of the efforts of John Kelsey, "prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains," to free his people from sin. Time: 1862. Style: descriptive and didactic. A second edition was issued in 1913. (K.H.)

The Story of Old Fort Loudon, 439 by Charles Egbert Craddock, pseud. New York: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1899. 409pp. A slow-moving but well-plotted Victorian novel recounting the frontier adventures of pre-Revolutionary settlers in the mountains of Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina. Historical personages portrayed: Cherokee Chief Ata-Culla-Culla; John Stuart, later Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the South. (A.B.C.)

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Nelms, Henntng. 440

The Hangman's Handyman, by Hake Talbot, pseud. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942. 342pp.

In this disappointing whodunit, The Kraken is an island off the "rocky" Carolina coast. Alchemy, murder, an old family curse, a seventeenth-century manuscript, undines and other subhuman creatures—all are gathered into an impossible plot. The author has no respect for geographical realities. (R.W.) Ab UNC

Newell, Robert Henry, 1836-1901. 440a

Smoked Glass, by Orpheus C. Kerr, pseud. New York: G. W. Carleton, 1868. 277 pp. A New York editor and humorist "covers" the Andrew Johnson im- peachment fiasco in a series of good natured but barbedly satirical letters. Neither the Radicals nor the unreconstructed Confederates are spared. In several lettrs from Chipmunk Court Hous [Virginia] Orpheus views the proud Southerners through the "smoked glass" of objectivity. (F.B.) Av DU 106 Nicholson

Nicholson, Meredith, 1866-1947. 441

The Little Brown Jug at Kildare Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1908. 422pp. Tale of adventure in the Rover Boys tradition involving two play- boys who masquerade as the governors of North and South Carolina, thereby creating squabbles between the two states. Action takes place in Columbia, S. C, and Raleigh and "Kildare," N. C. English edition entitled War of the Carolinas. (J.D.)

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Nolan, Jeannette Covert, 1896- 442

Patriot in the Saddle. New York: Messner, 1945. 239pp. Adventures and experiences of Kye Devon who was found as a baby, became a member of the household of General Andrew Jackson and an express-courier under President Madison. There is a thread of mystery as Kye learns more about his identity. (J.E.B.)

Norris, Hoke Marion, 1913- 443

All the Kingdoms of Earth. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. 249pp. In biblical vein without dominant characters, this leisurely novel wanders among the entwining lives of Negroes in the country community of Crooked Creek [Wake County?] from the 1920's to the 1950's. It shows the disintegrating of the whites who force themselves among them. Dignified and impressive, but occasionally melodramatic. (R.W.)

Norton, Frank Henry, 1836-1921. 444

Days of Daniel Boone. New York: American News Co., 1883. 406pp. The romance of Maud O'Brien and Harry Calvert, friend of Daniel Boone, develops in spite of the perils of the frontier, Indians, and the Regulators. Hillsboro, Guilford and Granville counties, and the Yadkin country figure in the story. (C.M.P.)

Nott, Henry Junius, 1797-1837. 445

Novellettes of a Traveller; or, Odds and Ends from the Knapsack of Thomas Singularity. New York: Harper, 1834. 2 vols. O. Henry 107

"The Counterfeiters," pp. 143-190 of Vol. II, is set in the southwestern North Carolina mountains, where outcasts and criminals are harbored. When Martin Brownfield, large landowner, is visited by known forgers, he is prosecuted by his neighbor, the magistrate William Gordon. Children of the two effect a peaceful settlement. (R.W.)

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O. Henry, pseud. See Porter, William Sidney

Odum, Howard Washington, 1884-1954. 446

Cold Blue Moon; Black Ulysses Afar Off. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1931. 278pp. Black Ulysses of North Carolina tells, in Negro dialect, the story, sometimes amusing, more often tragic, of the white folks of Big House Hall. His descriptions of Old Colonel, Old Mistus, their children, and numerous ghostly stories give an authentic picture of life on a Southern Civil War era plantation. (B.W.D.) As Ch Dr DU Hk Mg Rm Ru UNC WC

Rainbow Round My Shoulder. 447 Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1928. 323pp. "Black Ulysses," like the original of Homer, wanders over the face of the globe. His travels are mostly in the United States, and his specific North Carolina stops are Greensboro, Gibsonville, Wilson, Aberdeen, and Charlotte. A borderline book between fiction and non-fiction, it is largely vivid, plotless folklore. (B.W.D.)

Wings on my Feet; Black Ulysses at the Wars. 448 Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1929. 309pp. This sequel to Rainbow Round My Shoulder recounts Ulysses Gor- don's experiences as a North Carolina Negro soldier during World

War I. Always a wanderer, Ulysses recalls vividly the scenes in which he took part, before, during and after the war. Excellent character study, with some focus on the race problem. (M.S.T.)

Oertel, John Frederick, 1856- 449 Moonshine.

Macon, Ga.: J. W. Burke Co., 1926. 146pp. The year 1883 finds young miller John Bannard in love with Lindy, daughter of his partner "Big Bill" Holler, Blue Ridge mountain 108 Oertel

farmer and moonshiner. Brooks Bryson, a mysterious stranger, loves Lindy too and schemes to eliminate John by betraying him to "revenuers," but his plot acts as a boomerang. (E.J.E.) DU Mg UNC

Oertel, Julia Adelaide, -1906. 450

Hand in Hand Through the Happy Valley. Brooklyn: Church Charity Foundation, 1881. 97pp. An account of the home and family life of William Lenoir, one of the heroes of the Battle of Kings Mountain, particularly of the religious convictions and the early death of one of the hero's grand- daughters. (G.S.D.)

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Oertel, Theodore Eugene, 1864- 451

Blackbeard's Treasure, A Tale of the Famous Pirate, Captain Teach. New York: Crowell, 1927. 368pp. Davy Jones runs away from home [near Beaufort], boards a passing ship and ends up an unwilling member of Blackbeard's crew. Life aboard ship, lost treasure, and an escape complete the story. Ages 12-18. (V.W.P.) ECC Kn SL

Ogburn, Dorothy. 452

Death on the Mountain. Boston: Little, Brown, 1931. 286pp. In Thunder Falls [Highlands] on a windy night in July, 1925, Nicholas Padgett is strangled on the lawn of his summer home. Inn- keepers, summer visitors, local residents, and a lunatic boy are drawn into the mystery before the reader learns who the murderer is. Plot above average; setting attractively localized. (R.W.)

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Olds, Helen Diehl, 1895- 453

Peanut Butter Mascot. New York: Messner, 1953. 61pp.

The young reader is conducted through a peanut plant [in Charlotte] in the company of Dave Tuttle. Dave's pet, Petunia ("the smartest Olmsted 109

pig in all North Carolina"), is made the mascot of the peanut-plant baseball team. Pleasant tale with authentic industrial background. Ages 7-10. (R.W.)

Olmsted, Stanley, -1939. 454

At Top of Tobin. New York: Dial Press, 1926. 498pp. A family chronicle of Tobin [Murphy] 1880-81, this vivid picture of a mountain village "society" before the railroads came does not deserve the oblivion it has received. Most of the plotless action is seen through the sensitive eyes of six-year-old Chester Donbrook. A forgotten forerunner of Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel. (R.W.) DU Mg SL UNC Wm

"One Who Has Been R'd," pseud. See Beasley, Charles Oscar

O'Neill, Jean. 455

Cotton Top. New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepherd Co., 1953. 38pp. Sarah Jane, or Cotton Top, counts the things that belong to her and reckons she "has every single thing in the world anyone could ever want," right there in her mountain home. Then she sees Serena from the big city. They trade dresses and dolls, but neither is happy until she recovers her own possessions. The setting is Possum-Trot Moun- tain and Chinkie-Pin Hollow, both in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Ages 6-8. (M.K.T.)

Osborne, Mrs. D. C. 456

Under Golden Skies; or, In the New Eldorado, [anon.] Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton, 1898. 485pp. Wealthy Ralph Leslie, of Winston-Salem, finds himself guardian to the daughter of the woman he loved as a youth. Their relationship deepens into love in the course of action which moves through popular vacation spots in the state. A considerable amount of Moravian history is included. (G.S.D.)

Otis, James, pseud. See Kaler, James Otis 110 Page

Page, Dorothy Myra. 457

Gathering Storm; a Story of the Black Belt. New York: International Publishers, 1932. 374pp. Textile worker's struggle for a better life in the mill towns of South and North Carolina. The heroine joins the Communist party and organizes white and Negro workers. Typical proletarian novel of the 1930's and as such has a certain historical interest. Printed in Russia. (M.C.H.)3 UNC

Page, Walter Hines, 1855-1918. 458

The Southerner: a Novel, Being the Autobiography of Nicholas Worth. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1909. 424pp. This famous but bitter novel covers the years of Reconstruction and later. Worth advocates educational reform for white and Negro and, with assistance from Billy Bain [Charles D. Mclver], for women. In deprecating professional Confederates and rotten politics, he becomes unpopular. Scenes in Marlborough [Raleigh], Acropolis [Chapel Hill], and Edinboro [Greensboro]. (R.W.) Av DC Dr DU NCS SL UNC WC

Pahlow, Gertrude. 459

Cabin in the Pines. Philadelphia: Penn Pub. Co., 1935. 316pp. In this light romance of the Depression years, jobless architect Graham Boone lives near Chapel Hill in a shack left him by his grandmother's washerwoman. He is pursued by three women: a tenant's Hollywood-mad daughter, a good-for-nothing socialite, and a social-conscious young widow. The Chapel Hill scenes are pleas- antly familiar. (R.W.) Dr DU Hk Rl UNC Wm

Paine, Dorothy Charlotte. 460

A Maid of the Mountains. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs, 1906. 348pp. Beth Davenport arrives with her family at their summer home [Western North Carolina] after an accident which threatens to spoil the summer. She meets Carol, a talented mountain girl, helps her Parker 111

in many ways, and brings her to the attention of a wealthy woman who plans to educate her. (T.T.) UNC

Parker, Marion. 461

Mountain Mating. New York: Pageant Press, 1954. 344pp. A piece of Great Smoky Mountain folklore, tracing the lives, loves and intrigues of the inhabitants; and of the spirits, Old Smoky, Sun Ball, and Cupid, who guide their destinies. The unusual adventures resulting from the finding of an emerald by Bill Rivers are told in ribald, earthy style. (M.R.B.) Gb Gs UNC

Parrish, George Dillwyn, 1894- 462

Hung for a Song. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934. 279pp. Stede Bonnet flees Barbados and his unloved wife to seek adventure and wealth as a pirate, in part on Ocracoke Island. He pursues his brutal way, murdering and torturing, some of the time as a forced follower of Blackbeard, until he reaches his end on the gibbet. (T.T.) UNC

Patton, Frances Gray,* 1906- 463

The Finer Things of Lifej New York: Dodd, Mead, 1951. 248pp. The first five stories concern the Potters, a [Duke?] university family, and especially Elinor, the "fearfully well-adjusted" daughter who discovers that she is adolescent. There are other delightful stories relating some lively events in the author's early life in Stonesboro [Raleigh], one autobiographical sketch, and several stories not specifically located. (K.W.H.)

Good Morning, Miss Dot?e.§ 464 New York: Dodd, Mead, 1954. 218pp. At Liberty Hill [Durham? Fayetteville?] the "terrible" Miss Dove,

* For short stories by her see under William Maxwell Blackburn, and Katha- rine M. Jones. t Winner of a Sir Walter Raleigh Award, 1953. § Winner of the Sir Walter Raleigh Award, 1955. —

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geography teacher at Cedar Grove school, has an operation during which she recalls the numberless students on whom her strict methods had beneficial influence. A warming character study prais- ing the "nonprogressive" schoolteacher. (R.W.)

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A Piece of Luck* 465 New York: Dodd, Mead, 1955. 248pp.

Of a number of stories, the title one is laid in Durham, "The Game" in "Tryon's Neck" on the North Carolina coast, "Let It Rest" in Raleigh, and "A Little Obvious" outside an industrial [North Caro- lina?] town. With her light touch Mrs. Patton deftly reveals many facets of human nature. (K.W.H.)

Patton, Sadie Smathers, 1886- 466

Ghost Stories and Legends of the Mountains. Hendersonville: Blue Ridge Specialty Printers, 1935. 48pp. A collection of twenty-one sketches based on legends of strange and supernatural events which happened in Western North Carolina, from the Colonial period to the present time. (F.D.G.) Av NCS SL UNC WC

Payson, William Farquhar. 467

John Vytal: A Tale of the Lost Colony. New York: Harper, 1901. 319pp. Soldier John Vytal and dramatist Christopher Marlowe are among the colonists at Roanoke in 1587. Hostile Indians, Spanish invaders, and unfriendly English malcontents spell the colony's doom. White Doe (Virginia Dare) and Dark Eyes (Manteo's son), along with a few survivors including Vytal and Eleanor Dare, retreat into the forest. (R.W.)

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Peace, Samuel Thomas, 1879- 467a

Leaves of Leisure. Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Company, 1931. 47pp. This collection of miscellaneous writing contains three short stories

* Winner of the Sir Walter Raleigh Award, 1956. Peace 113

"Three Jacks and a Full House," "The Meanest Thing I Ever Did," and "Rusty"—presumably based on youthful experiences of the author in North Carolina. (W.S.P.)

Me an' Ole Kate, and Other Christmas Stories. 467b New York: Vantage Press, 1957. 82pp. Christmas stories based on happenings from the author's childhood in North Carolina. (W.S.P.)

Peake, Elmore Elliott, 1871- 468

The Darlingtons. New York: McClure, Phillips, 1900. 416pp. Melodramatic story of the successful, character-building courtship of Carol Darlington, a socially prominent, intelligent Asheboro beauty, by Stephen Kaltenborn, a sophisticated, independent Methodist minister. The minor plot is of Carol's brother and his unsuccessful struggle against alcoholism. (P.W.) Rl SL UNC

Pearson, James Larkin. See Hendricks, William C.

Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935. 469

Annie Laurie and Azalea. Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1913. 295pp. Suspected of taking the hard-earned savings of Annie Laurie's father, Hector Disbrow suddenly sends his boy, Sam, to Rutherford Academy and leaves town. Sam comes back to help Annie Laurie and her two maiden aunts. Hector returns later to make restitu- tions. Ages 12-16. (M.E.W.) Hk UNC

Azalea, the Story of a Girl in the Blue Ridge Mountains. 470 Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1912. 272pp.

After her mother's death Azalea is befriended by two families, and has to choose between the McBirneys, who live high up in the Blue Ridge, and the Carsons in their handsome home in the village. Girls 8-12. (J.H.S.) Ty UNC 114 Peattie

Azalea's Silver Web. 471 Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1915. 284pp.

Azalea, now 18, finds that she is the missing granddaughter of the wealthy Knox family in South Carolina, and again must make a choice between mountains and plantation life. Told in letters from Azalea, written in an artificial Southern dialect. Girls 8-12. (J.H.S.) Ty

Pelton, Mabell Shippie Clarke, 1864-1942. 472 A Tar-Heel Baron. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1903. 354pp. Baron Friedrich von Rittenheim comes to North Carolina when Hilda, his fiancee, marries his brother. Romance with Sidney Carroll is jeopardized by Hilda's sudden appearance and the news of her husband's suicide. A German friend arrives to fix the blame for the suicide and to effect reconciliation between Sidney and the Baron. (I.L.P.)

Pendexter, Hugh, 1875- 473

Red Belts. New York: Doubleday, 1920. 246pp. North Carolina decides to pay her part of the national debt by ceding her land west of the Alleghanies to Congress when this story begins. John Sevier, leader of the white settlers fighting for their existence against the Indians and white plotters, saves Tennessee for the Union. (M.H.) UNC WC

Pendleton, Louis Beauregard, 1861-1939. 474

Corona of the Nantahalas, A Romance .* New York: The Merriam Company, 1895. 199pp. Involved plot of kidnapping, mistaken identity, foster parents, and confused lovers, set in the Nantahala Forest of Western North Caro- lina, 1864-1885. Asheville is mentioned. (N.B.B.) Gb UNC

Pennell, Joseph Stanley. 475

The History of Rome Hanks and Kindred Matters. New York: Scribner's, 1944. 363pp. Random memories about ancestors of Lee Harrington, great-grandson

* First published in Munsey's Magazine, July-October, 1894. Peterson 115

of Rome Hanks. An old relative recalls the years Jud and Robert Harrington, Lee's grandfather and father, lived in Gadkin County [Yadkin]. Jud, born in 1847, served with the 86th N. C. Regiment, attended U.N.C., and took his family to Kansas in 1882. (S.F.B.)

Peterson, Belle. 476

One Word, and a Tear; or, The Wounded Dove. The Story of Lenore Parolee.

St. Louis: Published for the Authoress, 1875. 248pp. An old-fashioned, poorly constructed love story, highly dramatic, with a setting in Eastern North Carolina [Clinton and Warsaw?]. Lenore, the heroine, an orphan, is disappointed in love when she learns that her lover is a villain. The story does not end happily, but the villain does get his just dues. (M.M.H.) UNC WC

Peterson, Mattie J. 477

Little Pansy, A Novel . . . and Miscellaneous Poetry. Wilmington: Messenger Steam Job Print, 1890. 54pp.

This ridiculous sentimental novelette is set "by the seaside" (presumably near Wilmington) and is crammed with drooping heroines, a wicked "beauty," an abducted hero, an Egyptian fortune teller, mistaken children, and such. Finally Pansy Ray, "beautiful as a pure white lilly," and poor artist Edgar Ebert win through to love. (R.W.) Av DU UNC Wm

Phillips, Dorothy. 478

Big-Enough Boat. New York: Follett, 1956. 96pp. Experiences of Tommy and his sister who help their father, a fisher- man "near Cape Hatteras." (V.W.P.)

Pierce, Ovid Williams,* 1910- 479

The Plantation.^ Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1952. 217pp. When Ed Ruffin dies, his life and character are reviewed by those who knew him, especially by his old Negro retainer Josephus. Mr.

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Ed, large land-owner, had devoted himself to the women who sur- rounded him. Scene is early 19th-century plantation in the author's native Halifax County. Mature. Expert. (R.W.)

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Platt, Charles Malcolm, 1855-1895. 480

How Old Man Corn Held Possession. New York: Current Literature Publishing Co., 1894. 8pp. A story in dialect of a mountain farm [between Asheville and Marshall], a faulty land title, and a feud. (E.W.H.) 1 Av

Poate, Ernest M., 1884-1935. 481

The Trouble at Pinelands: a Detective Story. New York: Chelsea House, 1922. 316pp.

A doctor is murdered in the winter resort of Pinelands [Southern Pines], another doctor is accused, and a third solves the mystery. This well-written "psychiatrical" novel has a wedding in a jail, a poltergeist, plus a brush with mountain moonshiners near Asheville. Several of the important characters are Northerners. (R.W.) UNC

Polk, William Tannahill, 1896-1955. 482

The Fallen Angel and Other Stories. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1956. 180pp. Most of these nineteen stories are humorous incidents at or near Hastings [author's native Warrenton] involving lawyers, Negro ten- ants, and the like. A few are serious, and others treat such diverse subjects as Sir Walter Raleigh and the political scene in Raleigh. Expert. (R.W.) -

Pollard, Eliza F. 483

The Old Moat Farm: A Story of Queen Elizabeth's Days. London: Blackie, [1905]. 238pp. Derward Weston, nephew of Lady Jane Gray, is sent to Roanoke Island in 1584 to escape detection by Queen Elizabeth. He and his friend John Rolfe live 15 years with the Indians. Chronology is Pollock 117

telescoped to allow 10-year-old Pocahontas to save Rolfe. This story for young people distorts history. (R.W.) Boston Public Library

Pollock, John Alfred, 1844-1932. 484

The Fair Lady of Halifax or Colmey's Six Hundred, by Ronleigh de Conval, pseud. Raleigh: Edwards and Broughton Printing Co., 1920. 408pp. Colonel Colmey, Continental officer, distinguishes himself by his brilliance and bravery during the early days of the Revolution. Much of the first part of this book recounts the history of Eastern North Carolina Indians, their warfare with the whites, and their eventual expulsion from the region. (J.T.) BwR Dr Du Kn SI UNC WnB Ws

Polsky, Thomas, 1908- 485

The Cudgel. New York: Dutton, 1950. 223pp. At "Waylay," a large ancestral estate atop a mountain some distance west of Asheville, a young woman is found cudgeled to death in a swimming pool. The mountain locale has little to do with the stock detective-fiction people in this short, interesting novel. (R.W.)

Pool, Bettte Freshwater, 1860-1928. 486

The Eyrie and Other Southern Stories. New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1905. 108pp. The Pasquotank River, Nags Head, and the Outer Banks provide settings for most of these eight stories. Three are of the Civil War period. "The Nag's Head Picture of Theodosia Burr" is based on an incident supposed to have occurred in 1812. (M.R.S.)

Under Brazilian Skies [Short stories]. 487 Elizabeth City: Geo. P. E. Hart, 1908. 60pp. "The Hermit of South Mountain" describes Dr. Danforth's visit in 1800 to a mountain cabin in Western North Carolina, where he found and cured an ailing hermit. "The Old Brick House," near Elizabeth City, once concealed a lady from her lowly lover, and was also the headquarters of pirate Edward Teach. (J.H.N.) AS Rl Sb UNC WC 118 Pool

Pool, Maria Louise, 1841-1898. 488 Against Human Nature. New York: Harper, 1895. 361pp. A simple novel of late nineteenth century, crowded with details of a young twenty-year-old mountain girl's attempts to find happiness, using the unhappiness of her own parents as her only guide. Most of the incidents are centered around Asheville, but the scene shifts to Hoyt, Massachusetts. Some good mountain lore. (M.C.H.)4 UNC WC

Dally. 489 New York: Harper, 1893. 280pp. Abijah Jacobs accepts the care of Dally, a young girl from White Crow mountain in Western North Carolina. Abijah's love survives shocks resulting from Daily's uncivilized behavior and guides the child into a charming and genuine young woman. Other mountain characters are presented in unrelieved depravity. (G.S.D.) UNC

In Buncombe County. 490 New York: Duffield & Company, 1906. 295pp. Two young ladies from the North visit friends who have recently moved into the mountains of North Carolina. Although relieved by flashes of pure humor, the book is a dreary account of a shiftless, depraved community without a single native character of intelligence, integrity, or independence. (G.S.D.) Av BwR DU Rl Sb SL UNC WC Wm Wy

The Red-Bridge Neighborhood. 491 New York: Harper, 1898. 369pp. Olive Nawn's life in a small manufacturing village in the foothills of North Carolina is one of senseless drudgery, the result of her husband's lack of character and her father-in-law's parsimony. Her defiance when her child's welfare or her own principles are involved secures eventual happiness, after an improbable climax. (G.S.D.) UNC

Porter, Sara Lindsay Coleman, 1868- 492 The Common Problem, by Sara Lindsay Coleman. New York: Doubleday, 1929. 318pp. An improbable love story centered around the life of an orphan LIFETHE And entertaining ADVENTURES O F Mr. Cleveland,

Natural SON of Oliver Cromwell, Written by HIMSELF.

Giving a particular Account of his Un- happinefs in Love, Marriage, Friend- fhip, and his great Sufferings in Europe and America.

Intermixed with Reflections, defcribing the Heart of Man in all its Variety of Paffions and Dif.

guifes ; alfo fome curious Particulars of Olivtr% Hiftory and Amours, never before made publick.

VOL. III. LONDON:

Prictcd for T. Astliy, .it the Rife in St. Pautt Church- Yard. 1754.

North Carolina appears for the first time in fiction as a setting in this volume. See No. 495. 120 Porter

girl. Sternness of an old maid aunt, kindness of an elderly couple, and involved love affairs figure in the simply written plot. The time is about 1910-1920; the place the North Carolina mountains. (M.M.H.) SL WC

Wind of Destiny, by Sara Lindsay Coleman. 493 Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1916. 111pp. The author, childhood sweetheart of O. Henry in Greensboro, wrote to him years later from Asheville reminding him of their former friendship. The ensuing correspondence led to Miss Coleman's becoming the second Mrs. Porter in 1907. His letters are encased in this sentimental, fictionalized story of their renewed attachment. (C.J.P.) Dr DU

Porter, William Sidney,* 1862-1910. 494

Complete Works of O. Henry. New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1953. 2 vols.

Although in O. Henry's stories, North Carolina usually is not actually mentioned, scattered through ten of the twelve collections of his stories are approximately thirty with a North Carolina background, or with references to North Carolina, the state of O. Henry's birth and early years. (C.M.P.)

Pressly, Mary. See Leavttt, Alga E.

Prevost, Antoine Franqois, 1697-1763. 495

The Life and Entertaining Adventures of Mr. Cleveland, Natural Son of Oliver Cromwell, Written by Himself. London: Printed for T. Astley, 1734. 5 vols.

This fictitious adventure of Charles II's reign, by the French author of Manon Lescaut, has the hero ruling rationally over the savage Abaquis near where the mountains of N. C. are today (Vol. Ill, parts

of Books IV and V) . The geography of deserts and valleys is hazy and unreal. (R.W.) RpM WC

Price, Olive M. 496

Snifty. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1957. 156pp. Mickey-Straight-as-Tree and Kamama, two Cherokee children living

* For an additional short story by him see under Clarence Addison Hibbard. Pridgen 121

near the Oconoluftee River, rescue Snifty, a motherless black bear cub, then protect him from their enemy, Smoky Jo, and train him to do tricks at the Indian Fair. For children, an excellent introduction to modern Cherokee living in the Smokies. Ages 9-12. (R.W.)

Pridgen, Tim, 1889- 497

Tory Oath. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1941. 371pp. The love story of a Tory, Duncan Stuart, and his Highland Whig lassie, Mary MacLeod, is told against the backdrop of Revolutionary struggles at Moores Creek, Fort Moultrie, Guilford Court House, and Elizabethtown. Flora Macdonald and Cornelius Harnett appear as prominent characters. Romantic, exciting, historically accurate, and entirely readable. (R.W.)

West Goes the Road. 498 Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1944. 226pp. Caesar Brown leaves his Scotch home on the upper Cape Fear and journeys westward to the Mississippi valley. Cabin building and Indian fighting are commonplace. Aaron Burr's conspiracy in the Southwest is treated. Not so successful a novel as Tory Oath. (R.W.)

Pryor, Elinor. 499

The Double Man. New York: Norton, 1957. 452pp. Tsani, an outstanding young Cherokee warrior in Western North Carolina, discovers he is the son of ambushed white parents, goes to England to claim a heritage, and returns as an emissary from the British government to draw Indians and colonists together. (V.W.P.)

Pugh, Mabel, 1891- . 500

Little Carolina Blue Bonnet. New York: Crowell, 1933. 171pp. Family life in a small village near Raleigh [Morrisville?] in the late 19th century. Carrie, the main character, is the youngest of seven Morris children. Ages 8-12. (P.B.M.) 122 Putnam

Putnam, Nina Wilcox, 1888- 501

The Inner Voice. New York: Sheridan House, 1940. 309pp. Jonathan Picket, Bladen County Quaker boy, awakens to the meaning of slavery when he visits a slave market in Charleston to pur- chase a slave. In response to admonishing of his inner voice, he leaves North Carolina for the Northwest Territory to make a new life amid free people. (E.S.A.) Dr DU UNC WnB Ws

Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911. 502

The Story of Jack Ballister's Fortunes. New York: The Century Co., 1920. 420pp.

"The narrative of the adventures of a young gentleman . . . who was kidnapped in the year 1719 and carried to the plantations of the continent of Virginia, where he fell in with that famous pirate captain Edward Teach, or Blackbeard; of his escape from the pirates ." and the rescue of a young lady. . . (From the subtitle.) (D.E.S.)

R. K. D. See Dunlap, Roberta K.

Raymond, Rene, 1906- 503

The Flesh of the Orchid, by James Hadley Chase, pseud. London: Jarrolds, [1948]. 192pp. Popular British "thriller" by an English author who, though he has never visited North Carolina, uses the mountain area for the horror tale of a beautiful, wealthy escapee of an insane asylum. She falls into the hands of two professional murderers. The geography of this "bloody," tough novel is completely unreal. (R.W.) UNC

Raymond, Zillah, pseud. See Frayser, Lou H.

Read, Opie Percival, 1852-1939. 504

The Jucklins. Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1896. 290pp. Scantily-educated backwoodsman Bill Hawes leaves his Alabama home to become a teacher in a Western North Carolina-Tennessee border community. There he makes his home with the Jucklin family Read 123

and becomes involved in their problems. Romance and murder lend interest to this readable novel, despite discouraging fine print. (J.G.M.) Bk DU Gs NCS UNC

Old Lim Jucklin, The Opinions of an Open-Air Philosopher. 505 New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1905. 262pp.

There is no plot. The 43 chapters are separate examples of cracker barrel philosophy. Fictional characters, dialogue, and incidents are used solely to illustrate homely wit. Much of what goes on is specifically in North Carolina, the balance is by inference. (W. Bft.) DU WnB

Rehder, Jesse Clifford, 1908- 506 Remembrance Way. New York: Putnam, 1956. 255pp. Abby Brandon's marriage to a language professor at Steeple Hill [Chapel Hill] is endangered by unresolved adolescent traumas in- flicted during her childhood in Cape Fear [Wilmington] and especially during her summer at Camp Green Leaf in the North Carolina mountains. A poetic novel in which the heroine reviews her childhood. (R.W.)

UNC has author's manuscript.

Reid, Christian, pseud. See Tiernan, Frances Christine Fisher

Rhodes, William Henry, 1822-1876. 507

Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales and Sketches. San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft, 1876. 300pp.

One of the stories, "The Deserted Schoolhouse," is a nostalgic sketch of the author's return to the scene of the Woodville Academy in Bertie County twenty-two years after his schooling there. (R.W.) RpM UNC

Ricks, Pierson, 1908-1950. 508

The Hunter's Horn. New York: Scribner's, 1947. 361pp. In 1895 the plantation of hard-drinking, fox-hunting old Benjamin Gwaltney in the Eastern Carolina swamp country is farmed by 124 Ripley

well-bred but poor 17-year-old Conway Tilly, in love with the tenant girl Vonnie Hobson. Conway loves the "high life" but he loves the soil too. Author's theme is not clearly delineated. (R.W.)

Ripley, Katherine Ball. 509

Sand In My Shoes. New York: Brewer, Warren, and Putnam, 1931. 332pp. Enchanted with a picture of blossoming peach orchards, a fortune in fruit, and the country life, Katti and Clem Ripley sink their savings into a sandhills farm near Samarcand, 1921. Seven years and four crops later the peach bloom and their dreams succumb to over- production, drought, and a late freeze. Autobiographical. (S.F.B.)

Rivenbark, Mrs. Robert W. 510

Pauline; or the Girl of Piney Dell. By Mita Leon, pseud. Wilmington: S. G. Hall, 1883. 149pp.

"Piney Dell" (in Pender County) is the country-home of Pauline Percy in the 1870's. This garbled novel concerns her becoming an orphan, living with relatives, teaching school, having romantic love affairs, and finally her marrying a "good" man. The style is characterized by old-fashioned cliches. (R.W.) UNC

Robinson, Benjamin. 511

Dolores: A Tale of Disappointment and Distress .... New York: E. J. Hale & Sons, 1868. 180pp. Written by a participant in, and inspired by, the famous Anne K. Simpson case, this jumbled novel tells of Roland Vernon and his espousal of pretty, innocent Dolores Adams in C—town [Fayette- ville] 1853-68. Accused of poisoning her husband's second wife with arsenic, Dolores is defended by her aristocratic, honorable friend. (R.W.) Av DU Rl SL UNC WC Wm WnB

Robinson, Celia Myrover. 512 Rowena's Happy Summer. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1912. 104pp. The oldest of three motherless daughters of the once wealthy Beauchamp family [near Raleigh] longs for excitement and the Roe 125

opportunity to study music. She finds both with the arrival of a cousin whose grandmother had been disowned when she eloped with a Union officer during the Civil War. Ages 8-12. (D.E.S.) Fy Sb

Roe, Edward Payson, 1838-1888. 513

The Hornet's Nest, A Story of Love and War. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1892. 157pp.

"The Hornet's Nest" is the nickname for Mecklenburg County and one of the first novels concerning Mecklenburg's Revolutionary history. The fighting around Charlotte and Mclntire's (Bradley's) Farm by Colonel William R. Davie, Major Joseph Graham, and other Revolutionary soldiers forms the background for Burton Craige and Ella Mclntire's love story. (C.G.D.) DC Rl SL UNC

Rogers, Lettie Hamlett, 1917-1957. 514

Birthright. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957. 308pp.

In 1954-55 Peegram [Morganton] is upset by a series of unpleasant events in the lives of the proud and wealthy Erwin family, all con- sequent of the revival of racial tensions. Two school boys and their teacher give evidence that there is hope for the future. Intense, perceptive characterizations. (R.W.) WC has author's manuscript.

Landscape of the Heart. 515 New York: Random House, 1953. 248pp. At the mental hospital Bryant Hill [Graylyn in Winston-Salem] 32- year-old Judith West struggles with her doctor to face the world of reality again. She recovers, but only after meanderings through the dreamlike, shadowy region of the half-remembered. The methods of psychiatry and psychoanalysis are presented. Pages of technical brilliance. (R.W.) WC has author's manuscript.

Rollins, Kathleen. 516

Impassioned Foothills. New York: Arcadia House, 1937. 287pp. A light, simple tale of Gloria Crosby, talented modern of the Blue 126 Rollins

Ridge Mountain foothills, in love with Tevis Malone, whose family and the Crosbys are archenemies. To escape complications, Gloria works and studies art in New York City. There Dick Hudspeth helps untangle her family and romantic problems. (M.R.B.) Gs Mg UNC

Love's Tapestry. 517 New York: Arcadia House, c 1935. 286pp. Left destitute by the stock market crash of 1929, Mary Van Dyke joins her aunt in a small village in Western North Carolina, helps convert the family mansion into a resort, and marries "Cousin Tony." Simple, concise style; light and entertaining reading. (N.B.B.) SL UNC

Rombert: a Tale of Carolina. 518 New York: Charles S. Francis, 1835. 2 vols. Dull story intended as propaganda against Moravians in Carolina. Peter Rombert, the villain, and an itinerant Moravian minister, con- spire to ruin the lives of a wealthy Moravian family. Footnotes used by the author lend authenticity. (N.B.B.) Rl SL UNC

Rondthaler, Katherine Boring, 1877-1952. 519 "Tell Me a Story." Bethlehem, Pa.: Comenius Press, 1948. 60pp. Stories about children to present historical background of the early Moravian Church. Part of the book consists of stories of children who participate in the Salem Moravian customs. Ages 8-12. (M.K.T.) CC Gb Lk Lx Mg Sb SC UNC WC Ws

Rose, Duncan, 1855-1955. 520

Madeline: or A Commencement Proposal and What Came of It. Fayetteville: Cape Fear Press, 1898. 158pp. Beautiful Madeline Palmer rejects Ernest Latimer's proposal at B. College, presumably in North Carolina. Years later, after she has lost her fortune and is working on a newspaper, Madeline finds Ernest desirable; but he gains courage to risk a second proposal only after a rival appears on the scene. (M.B.)i Av SL UNC Ross 127

Ross, Fred, 1913- 521 Jackson Mahaffey. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1951. 308pp. At century's turn in lower Yadkin River country near Wadetown [Wadesboro], the hero lives a cock-fighting, cursing, liquor-drinking, woman-chasing life. Even a good girl cannot change him. Unusual, delightful humor of the tall-tale, tobacco-spitting variety. Jackson himself has within him the material for myth. (R.W.)

Ross, James, 1911- 522 They Don't Dance Much. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1940. 296pp.

On the outskirts of Corinth [Albemarle?] is a roadhouse with cabins where the drunks, college boys, and assorted citizens play slot machines, drink beer, and eat. The spot is as degraded as its owner Smut Mulligan. Robbery, suicide, and murder are mixed in with worthless characters. Expert naturalistic fiction. (R.W.)

Rowland, Joseph Medley, 1880- 523 Blue Ridge Breezes. Richmond: Appeals Press, 1918. 535pp. George Mason, young Methodist minister, and Margaret Madison, schoolteacher, bring religion and culture to a 19th century mountain community. Although George's mother persuades him to marry a Northern society girl and to accept a city church, things turn out right in the end. Flowery style; extensive use of mountain dialect. (V.F.B.)

The Hill Billies. 524 Nashville, Tennessee: Cokesbury Press, 1924. 298pp. A wealthy family of outsiders moves into a mountain community

(Waynesville) . Romance develops between the beautiful, though mistreated daughter and a mountain boy who has the interest and support of local citizens. World War I intervenes to take the hero and heroine to Europe. (G.J.) Ab Al Mg SL

Ruark, Robert Chester, 1915- 525 The Old Man and the Boy. New York: Henry Holt, 1957. 303pp. In this warming autobiographical work framed to the method of 128 Russell

fiction, the author recalls his childhood in the Southport area. The Old Man, a composite of Ruark's father and two grandfathers, teaches the boy "a way of living" along with lessons in hunting and fishing. Written with professional skill. (R.W.)

Russell, Charles Phillips, 1884- 526 Fumbler. New York: Macaulay, 1928. 332pp. In the town of Wellington on the Mashannock River, Lomer Guyon, young newspaper editor, supports textile workers on strike. His printshop wrecked and his engagement to the millowner's daughter broken, he goes to New York. Novel with proletariat bias about the fumbling efforts of an idealist to find himself. (R.W.) Dr UNC

Russell, Nellie Holland. 526a

The Bonnie New World: The Adventures of Jimmie Holland of the Carolina Colony. New York: Exposition Press, 1957. 242pp. About 1750 a young Scotsman and his wife arrive in North Carolina and eventually settle on the Little River in Dobbs (now Wayne) County. This amateur biographical novel of pioneering days, told by the hero's great-great-granddaughter, has brief scenes in Gates County and at the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge. (R.W.)

S., E. A. B. See Shackelford, Miss E. A. B.

Sanborn, Ruth Burr, 1895-1942. 527 These Are My People. New York: Crowell, 1941. 306pp. At Pinedome [Southern Pines] Northern doctor Wingfield Chevron is torn between a society practice and helping the backcountry folk, proud descendants of Scot exiles after Culloden, some of them potters. There are lush descriptions of the Carolina countryside, but only the Northern characters come to life. (R.W.)

[SCHOFEL, JOHANN W. A.] 528 Hirum Harum. Ein Satirisch-komischer Original-Roman. Salem [Niirnberg, Germany]: H. Bagge [Schneider and Weigel], 1789. 276pp. Written shortly after Mongolfier's and Blanchard's balloon ascents Seaworthy 129

had fired the imagination of the world. The hero ascends in his balloon in Germany and after exciting incidents in the air descends, to his great surprise, near Salem, N. C. The Salem imprint is a false one, the book having been printed in Niirnberg by Schneider and Weigel. (W.S.P.) UNC

Seaworthy, Capt. Gregory, pseud. See Throop, George Higby

Selders, Adelbert. 529

The Native Son Who Loses His Identity. Albemarle: The Stanly Republican and Selders Weekly, 1924. 128pp. Boy meets dream girl at Wrightsville Beach, returns to his birth- place in South Carolina to marry her and set up a newspaper. His youth having been spent in Illinois, the struggle for survival of a "Yankee" newspaper makes the plot. During World War I a series of fantastic spy-catching episodes occurs. (E.H.H.) UNC

Shackelford, Miss E. A. B. 530

Virginia Dare: A Romance of the Sixteenth Century. By E. A. B. S. New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1892. 207pp. Most of the English are killed for their treachery before Virginia Dare (Indian name, Owaissa) can grow up and marry Iosco, Manteo's son. In 1607 she goes to Powhatan's country, but returns without the Jamestown colonists' learning of her existence. This juvenile novel has a moralistic, religious twist. (R.W.) RpM UNC

Sharpe, Stella Gentry. 531

Tobe. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1939. 121pp. The sympathetic portrayal through beautiful photographs of an authentic North Carolina Negro farm family gives this book its real character and makes it outstanding. Hallowe'en, Thanksgiving, Christmas, the farm animals, and the various members of the family are described simply and with understanding. (E.J.H.)

UNC has author's manuscript. 130 Shepard

Shepard, Odell, 1884- , and Willard Odell Shepard. 532

Holdfast Gaines. New York: Macmillan, 1946. 647pp. Holdfast Gaines, a Mohegan Indian tries to resolve the difference between his Indian beliefs and his training as a member of an American family. Time: 1780 through the War of 1812. A brief part of the story takes place around Salisbury in 1788. (T.W.M.)

Shepard, Willard Odell, See Shepard, Odell

Shields, James M. 533

Just Plain Larnin'. New York: Coward-McCann, 1934. 344pp. Eugene Stafford, elementary principal in Nugget City [Winston- Salem], does not succeed in carrying out his progressive ideas regarding practical education after his summer school at Columbia. "Big-business" leaders and politicians wanted nothing to interfere with the exploitation of workers during the early days of the depression. (E.R.B.)

Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870. 534

The Book of My Lady. A Melange, by a Bachelor Knight, pseud. Philadelphia: Key & Biddle, 1833. 334pp. "Haiglar. A Story of the Catawba," one of the stories in this volume

tells how Chief Haiglar of the Catawbas won his bride from ar;; enemy tribe. Haiglar was taken prisoner by the Shawnees [presumably through North Carolina], but he escaped to return to his tribe. (W.S.P.) Av

Carl Werner, An Imaginative Story; With Others Tales of 53i Imagination. New York: George Adlard, 1838. 2 vols.

"The Cherokee Embassage" is a fictional account, based on fact, o: the journey of six Cherokee warriors to England. The voyage fol- lowed a treaty made in 1730 by Sir Alexander Cuming at Nikwasi I

a Cherokee town, the site of which is now marked by a mound ir I Franklin, Macon County. (W.S.P.) UNC SIMMS 131

Southward Ho! 536 New York: Redfield, 1854. 472pp. This book of tales contains "The Story of Blackbeard" and "The Ship of Fire: a Legend of the North Carolina Coast," both sea adventures. Elsewhere in the book, Simms praises the climate and beauty of the North Carolina mountains, but is bitterly critical of other aspects of the state. (R.W.)

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The Wigwam and the Cabin. 537 New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. 2 vols. This work contains a long story, "The Two Camps: a Legend of the Old North State," a Cherokee Indian tale based somewhat on the life of Daniel Boone. (R.W.)

Simon, Charlie May, 1897- 538

Younger Brother. New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1942. 183pp.

Sungi, a young Cherokee Indian, lives on a reservation. This is the day to day story of a very happy boy. Bullhead, Little Johnny War- path, Rattling Gourd, and other Indians, add background to this account of the growth of a boy into a Big Warrior. Ages 5-7. (W.L.E.)

Sims, Marion McCamy, 1899- 539

Call It Freedom. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1937. 320pp. After obtaining a divorce, Martha Freer returns to Hanover [Char- lotte] and takes up a routine of golf and bridge. Three men of vary- ing potential occupy her attention, and the reader wonders which one she will choose. Slight but effective story of the "upper set." (R.W.)

The City on the Hill. 540 Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1940. 357pp. In Medbury [Charlotte] Steve Chandler, solicitor and judge, fights the city's social and civic evils—the Sunday blue laws, prohibition, and a corrupt police force—but loses to the forces of apathy, orthodoxy, and organized crime. This is a strong, compelling novel, undoubtedly Mrs. Sims' best. (R.W.) 132 Sims

Memo, to Timothy Sheldon. 541 Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1938. 252pp.

This light novel is written in the form of a memorandum by Lynn Sheldon to her unimaginative, prosaic, textile-manufacturing husband of Argyll, S. C. [Charlotte?]. She has met a man at Altamont [Blowing Rock?] who releases the sensitive nature within her. Her dilemma is resolved after Timothy's wreck. (R.W.)

Storm Before Daybreak. 542 Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1946. 295pp. Paul Shannon, a Marine veteran, returns to Hartsboro [probably Charlotte] and, abandoning his previously flighty life, buckles down to supporting the divorced wife of his older brother. Mary and he drift into an affair. This dramatic story portrays two simple people moving toward happiness. (R.W.)

Skidmore, Hubert, 1911- 543

Hill Doctor. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1940. 307pp. In a readable, informative story, as Dr. York Allen practices medicine (about 1840) in Stoney Fork of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he not only has to fight superstition, but also must match his strength against Bill Skaggs, a scroundrel who bought up timber to sell to logging companies. (K.W.H.)

Skinner, Constance Lindsay. 544

Silent Scot, Frontier Scout. New York: Macmillan, 1939. 232pp. Silent Scot and his Indian friend, Jukelo, take part in engagements with the British, Tories, and Indians in Western North Carolina. This is a story of frontiersmen; the Battle of Kings Mountain and the founding of the State of Franklin are told. (C.M.P.)

Skitt, pseud. See Taliaferro, Harden E.

Slaughter, Frank Gill, 1908- 545

In a Dark Garden. Garden City: Doubleday, 1946. 435pp. At his Cape Fear plantation Chisholm Hundred, north of Wilming- Slaughter 133

ton, aristocratic Julian Chisholm spurns shameless Lucy Sprague and goes to Europe to study medicine. His marriage to a Yankee spy and his service as a Confederate surgeon provide adventures in Glasgow, Nassau, Florida, Vicksburg, Atlanta, Chickamauga, New York, and Richmond. (R.W.)

The Stubborn Heart. 546 Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1950. 307pp.

This sequel to In a Dark Garden is set in the Cape Fear region during the early days of Reconstruction. Returning to his plantation from the war, Dr. Julian Chisholm, representing the energy and initiative of the New South, rejects the old prejudices. Derring-do with sex and doctor's operations. (R.W.)

Smith, Edith Hutchins. 547

Drought and Other North Carolina Yarns. Winston-Salem: John F. Blair, 1955. 153pp. Most of these eleven "character" stories are humorous. They concern odd personalities in tobacco-raising Nebo [Stokes] County within sight of Pilot Mountain. Schoolteachers, bossy women, farmers, loafers, courting couples, dogs, horses, and fighting cocks make up the cast. An easy dialect is used. (R.W.)

Smith, George Gilman, 1836-1913. 548

Mr. Hall and His Family, Especially Susie, A Story of Southern Life. Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1892. 176pp. John Hall leaves his brother's business in Wilmington to become a "local preacher" in the Methodist church. His experiences take place in various parts of the South; prejudice, Roman Catholics, and yellow fever are obstacles in his way. Susie is his daughter. (W. Bft.) WnB

Southwick, Albert Plympton, 1855- 549

Bijou: The Foundling of Nag's Head. New York: American News Company, 1889. 186pp. In 1880 pretty 18-year-old Bijou, rescued from a "banker" wreck, is living with "coarse" Aunt Jane in a court-house town [Elizabeth City] on north side of Albemarle Sound. Boston schoolmaster and 134 Sparrow

painter Ralph Deane falls in love with the orphan. North Carolina people and environs are portrayed throughout as "plain and vulgar." (R.W.) UNC

Sparrow, Maria Dunton. 549a

Hereford. Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1910. 183pp. Hereford Houtman, Pennsylvanian, opens a school in Glenburg, North Carolina. When one of his pupils, Ruth Hathorn, moves to Richmond, Hereford leaves with her. She marries an Italian voice teacher who soon dies. Hereford marries Ruth, and they return to Glenburg to visit when an old friend and moonshiner dies. Time: 1890-1910. (W. Bft.) WnB

Spicewood, Simon. 550

Junaluskie, the Cherokee: a Story of the War.

Salisbury: J. Bruner, 1865. No copy of this short novel by a Thomasville man has ever been found. It was devastatingly reviewed in the Southern Field and Fireside (Raleigh), February 25, 1865. Apparently an Indian love story of the most amateurish sort, it "possesses neither plan, plot, combination, connection or completeness." (R.W.)

SPRATT, Barnett. 551

Toppy and the Circuit Rider. New York: Abingdon Press, 1957. 128pp. Toppy Hall joins Mr. Dan, the circuit rider, and visits many settlements in the Carolina mountains of the 1790's. From his experiences on the frontier he learns much and through the circuit rider finds a new life. Ages: 8-12. (W.S.P.)

Sprinkle, Rebecca K. 552

A House for Leander. New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1953. 48pp. Story of a small boy and his dog, Leander, and how his family cooperated to build the perfect house, including "tail-wagging room" for Leander. Preschool. (P.B.M.) Sprinkle 135

Parakeet Peter. 553 Chicago: Rand McNally, 1954. 27pp. Family story about a small boy named Peter whose aunt gives him a parakeet. Preschool. (P.B.M.) Dr DU Gb Gs Kn Sb UNC Ws

Sprunt, James, 1846-1924. 554

A Colonial Apparition, A Story of the Cape Fear. Wilmington: Morning Star Electric Power Presses, 1909. 16pp. The mail packet, running from Wilmington to Southport on a stormy winter night, encounters a ghost ship and two ghost men aboard, presumably relics of a British Revolutionary prison ship. The apparitions disappear and shortly afterward the packet picks up two live seamen clinging to a real wreck. (W. Bft.) DU SL UNC Wn WnB

Stalltngs, Laurence, 1894- 555

Plumes. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1924. 348pp. In Washington, D. C, in the early 1920's, Army veteran Richard Plume, his leg amputated, tries to adjust himself to a world no longer interested in heroes. Poverty and disillusionment follow him and his wife, a professor's daughter whom he had met at Woodlawn [Wake Forest] College. Partly autobiographical. (R.W.)

Steele, Wilbur Daniel. See Hibbard, Clarence Addison

Steele, William Owen, 1917- 556

The Golden Root. New York: Aladdin Books, 1951. 76pp. Bad luck dogs the herb-gathering Menefee family after they settle in an isolated mountain valley until Andre Michaux spends the night and explains the worth of the fabulous ginseng. Menefee luck changes, and dreams of better land in Kentucky seem about to come true. Ages. 8-12. (A.R.C.)

Over-Mountain Boy. 557 New York: Aladdin Books, 1952. 192pp. Will Hawkins returns from a year's schooling in Virginia to his 136 Steele

North Carolina mountain home, at a time when both Indians and Tories are a menace. He is captured by the former, then escapes to fight the latter, under Ferguson and Carlton. Entertaining story for the 8-12 reader. (W.C.W.)

Tomahawks and Trouble. 558 New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1955. 213pp. Three youngsters from the Watauga Settlement are captured by Indians and taken to Kentucky. They escape and return to Watauga in this exciting story of pioneer days. (W.S.P.)

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Wilderness Journey. 559 New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1953. 209pp. Young Flan Taylor, anxious to join his parents, journeys on foot from the Holston River settlements to French Salt Lick with a hunter. They encounter hostile Indians and friendly wagon trains. Flan learns to master the wilderness skills he thought were beyond him. Ages 8-12. (A.R.C.)

Winter Danger. 560 New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1954. 183pp. Eleven-year-old Caje Amis experiences the life of both a "woodsy" and a farmer, in this vivid, well-written story of pioneer life on the North Carolina-Tennessee frontier in the 1780's. Ages 8-12. (C.F.)

Stevenson, Augusta. 561

Virginia Dare: Mystery Girl. Indianapolis: Bobb-Merrill, 1957. 192pp.

The first English child born in the New World is the heroine of this juvenile historical novel of the Lost Colony on Roanoke Island in Dare County in 1587. This is one of the Famous American Series. Illustrated by Harry Lees. Ages 7-12. [Publication announced for December, 1957.] (R.W.)

Steward, Davenport. 562

Sail the Dark Tide. Atlanta: Tupper and Love, 1954. 310pp. Blockade running between Wilmington and Nassau during the last days of the Civil War. Action centers around Wyck Talburt, former Stillman 137

U. S. Navy lieutenant, who resigned his commission to help the cause of his native state. (E.H.C.)

Stillman, Albert Leeds, 1883- 563

Drums Beat in Old Carolina. Chicago: John C. Winston, 1939. 244pp. English prisoners are sent to the American colonies. Their adventures and activities through the administration of Governor Tryon are told by the principal character, James Hill. They discover a saltpeter mine and set up a gunpowder factory. Ages 10-14. (P.B.M.)

Stockton, Frank R. (Francis Richard), 1834-1902. 564

Kate Bonnet: the Romance of a Pirate's Daughter. New York: Appleton, 1902. 420pp. Satirizing the traditional pirate tales, this novel moves from Bar- bados, Jamaica, and Belize to brief chapters at Topsail Inlet and then the Cape Fear, where Bonnet is apprehended. Blackbeard is prominent. Unimportant. (R.W.)

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. 565

Dred; a Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1856. 2 vols. 329, 370pp. At Canema Plantation in Chowan County, Nina Gordon treats her slaves indulgently. On her death, the atrocities of her brother Tom drive them into hiding in nearby Dismal Swamp, over which the Negro swamp-outlaw Dred reigns. Anti-slavery bias permeates this novel of North Carolina, never visited by the author. (R.W.)

Strange, Robert, 1796-1854. 566

Eoneguski, or The Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars, by an American.

Washington, D. C: Franck Taylor, 1839. 2 vols. 218, 196pp. Eoneguski, the first novel set wholly in North Carolina, deals with the white settlers adjoining the Cherokee country in the years up to, during, and after the War of 1812. Chief Eoneguski and his friend 138 Street

Gideon Aymor are engaged in revenge, love, and war. Historical narrative in the Cooper vein. (R.W.)

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Street, James. See Jones, Katharine M.

Street, Julia Montgomery. 567

Fiddler's Fancy.* Chicago: Follett, 1955. 159pp. Pedler O'Halloran arrives at a mountain home [Mitchell County] to show his wares for the neighborhood. He plays his fiddle at a play- party, sells spectacles for "Stooping Granny," predicts a use for Billy's mica, and receives a gift of a coverlet from Angeline who names the pattern "Fiddler's Fancy." Ages 5-12. (D.B.T.)

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Strickland, William Herman, 1899- 568

A Twist of Yarn, by Emitt Lookabee, pseud. New York: Pageant, 1956. 167pp. At Hickory-Nut-Grove [vicinity of Hendersonville-Asheville] a rich man is murdered and thrown into a water-filled granite quarry. A young professional investigator takes on the case, though his methods are ridiculed by the old-timers. Amateur fiction reprehensible on every score. (R.W.) UNC

Strong, Paschal Neilson, 1901- 569

Behind the Great Smokies. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1932. 247pp.

When Stanley Wayne learns he is the son of mountaineers, he post- pones college to find his unknown parents. Enemies of the Wayne family decide "to rail" Stanley out of the mountains. The plan back- fires much to the delight of the local boys whom he has helped to become Lone Scouts. (K.W.H.)

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West Point Wins. 570 Boston: Little, Brown, 1938. 267pp. Jimmy Gibson, a boy from Carolina who likes football, receives appointment to West Point. He faces many physical and mental adjustments but overcomes them all in a blaze of glory when he helps lead Army to a football victory over Navy. Ages 13-17. (T.C.M.)

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Styron, William, 1925- 571

The Long March. New York: Random House, 1956. 120pp. In the early 1950's at a Marine establishment [Camp Lejeune?] in the Carolinas, a colonel orders a 36-mile forced march. The agony of men and officers is harrowing, especially for a home-loving lieutenant and a resentful reserve captain. Effective novella; expert writing by the author of Lie Down in Darkness. (R.W.)

Sullivan, Sarah A., and Zoa C. Sullivan. 572

The Animals Talk to Gussie. Wilmington: Gary-Mintz Printing Co., 1951. 28pp. Gussie goes to the barnyard to learn how the animals talk in this picture book for the preschool child. (K.E.H.) Wm WnB

Sullivan, Zoa C. See Sullivan, Sarah A.

Talbot, Hake, pseud. See Nelms, Henning

Talbot, Mary Elizabeth. 573

Rurality: Original Desultory Tales. Providence: Marshall & Hammond, 1830. 196pp. Several of these sketches and long short stories are set in "the wilds of North Carolina," meaning the Brushy Mountains as well as Wilmington and Fayetteville. There are no indigenous characters, North Carolina being merely mentioned on most occasions. (R.W.) DU UNC 140 Taliaferro

Taliaferro, Harden E., 1818-1875. 574

Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters. By "Skitt," who was Raised Thar. New York: Harper, 1859. 269pp. Humorous tall tales—backwoodsy and colloquial—of Surry County in the first half of the nineteenth century, told in the lusty native vernacular. Example: Oliver Stanley, swallowed by a whale, lights his pipe and makes an escape. Hunting, fishing, loving, working, politicking, and praying and shouting at campmeetings. (R.W.)

Carolina Sketches. 575 Richmond: Dietz, 1938. 87pp. Nine narrative sketches, several about primitive religious practices, are taken from the Southern Literary Messenger, 1860-63. One tale relates the visit of two Surry County rustics to Raleigh during the Legislature, where their backwoods manners bring laughter. Fore- word by David K. Jackson. (R.W.)

Tapp, Sidney Calhoun, 1870- 576

The Struggle. New York: A. Wessels Co., 1906. 324pp.

Grace Shelton's story is like that of thousands of others whose fortunes, homes, and businesses were exploited by the "Barons of Wall Street." The North Carolina State Democratic Convention's pledge to eradicate this evil results in the imprisonment of many "Captains of Finance." [W. W. Kitchin is said to be the hero of this story.] (M.C.H.)2 Gs UNC

Thomas, Ethel.* 577

The Better Way, A Story Founded on Facts Showing the Happy Results of Co-operation Between Labor and Capital. Charlotte: Mill News Printing Co., 1918. 225pp. After leaving the mountains around 1915, Widow Brown, Rhody, Ned, and Hal find jobs and love in "Prosperity," a Piedmont North Carolina textile town. Mill strife threatens until the union organizer's deception is revealed. Written immaturely, characters and story seem unnatural in this plea for harmony between labor and capital. (M.S.T.) Ch UNC

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Only a Factory Boy. 578 Charlotte: Mill News Pub. Co., 1914. 136pp. Young Jack, driven from his home in Rockingham County by a cruel stepmother, goes to work in a Georgia mill, where his Alger- like rise brings success and a happy ending. Inferior dialect. Ages 12-16. (V.L.T.) Av UNC

Thomas, Theresa Meroney, 1909- 579

Tall Grey Gates. New York: Daniel Ryerson, 1942. 245pp. The harrowing experience of ten thousand Federal prisoners in the Confederate Prison at Salisbury during the Civil War is fictionized from the actual journal of a captive known in the book as Captain Robert Stanley. His lush romance with Salisbury's pretty Betty Marlow provides a slight plot. (R.W.)

Thompson, Adele E., 1849- 580

Polly of the Pines: A Patriot Girl of the Carolinas. Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., 1906. 313pp. Polly Dunning becomes active in the Insurrection of the Clan Donald, when her Scottish Highland neighbors of Cross Creek (now Fay- etteville), join the British forces against the American colonists to be defeated at Moores Creek Bridge, near Wilmington. As a volunteer nurse, she follows the soldier-colonists. (M.C.H.)2 Rl UNC

Thompson, William Tappan, 1812-1882. 581

Major Jones's [pseud.] Sketches of Travel: Comprising the Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures, in His Tour From Georgia to Canada. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1848. 192pp. A Georgian, traveling to Canada, passes through North Carolina. He arrives by boat in Wilmington and journeys by train through Weldon to Virginia. (W.S.P.) UNC

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Thornton, Marcellus Eugene, 1846-1924. 582

The Lady of New Orleans: A Novel of the Present. New York: Abbey Press, 1901. 330pp.

Alpha Millyard, lawyer, is arrested in New Orleans on an abduction charge and is released when wealthy and beautiful Rittea de Ampbert pays his bond. They are ideally mated until he learns that his wife is the illegitimate daughter of a French gentleman and his octoroon mistress. Hickory, Hiddenite, and Blowing Rock, North Carolina, are mentioned in the book. (M.E.W.) Av Hk SL UNC Hk has author's manuscript.

My "Budie" and I. 583 New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1899. 273pp. Mr. Gonquin of New York and Washington, owner-manager of a coal mine at Pigeon Roost [Linville Mountain], meets a young mountain girl, Louise Stewart. Much of the book deals with coal mining (1880-1890?). The love story of the two, from widely different back- grounds, ends happily. (M.B.S.) Av Hk UNC

Throop, George Higby, 1818-1896. 584

Bertie, or Life in the Old Field: A Humorous Novel. By Capt. Gregory Seaworthy, pseud. Philadelphia: A. Hart, 1851. 242pp.

Most of this delightful novel is set at the plantation Cypress Shore [Scotch Hall, Bertie County] on the banks of Albemarle Sound. "Professor" Funnyford Matters, a bragging Yankee, constructs cis- terns for the rich planters and enjoys the lively goings-on in rural Bertie. The novel concludes with five marriages. (R.W.) UNC

Nag's Head, or Two Months among the "Bankers": A Story 585 of Seashore Life and Manners. By Gregory Seaworthy, pseud. Philadelphia: A. Hart, 1850. 180pp. This narrative by a Northern schoolmaster about his two-month vacation at Nag's Head in 1849 with the family of a wealthy Per- quimans County planter has little plot. The summer colony and its various pleasurable activities are minutely described. Especially valuable as social history. (R.W.) Av UNC Thurston 143

Thurston, Lucy Meacham, 1862- 586

Jenijer. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1907. 298pp. Jenifer Wooten buys kaolin-bearing land in Carolina from the unsuspecting owner. With the resulting fortune, he acquires a plantation home, a wife, and servants; but his wife proves faithless, and he is convinced of his own dishonesty. His wife conveniently dies, and he is free to correct past mistakes. (M.J.T.) Av UNC

Iidball, Mary Langdon. 587 Barbara's Vagaries. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1886. 175pp.

Barbara Dexter, unsophisticated North Carolina mountain girl, is the brunt of the malicious wit of popular Washington hostess, Mrs. Gregory. Barbara triumphs socially over everyone but disappears in a boating accident. Dennis Wainwright, Barbara's suitor, visits her home town, Harfield ["near the French Broad"], where he finds and marries her. (W. Bft.) WnB riERNAN, Frances Christine Fisher, 1846-1920. 588 After Many Days: A Novel, by Christian Reid, pseud. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1877. 212pp. In Victorian "Edgerton" [Piedmont North Carolina?], Amy Reynolds marries for security after being spurned by Brian Marchmont, a fortune-seeking captivator. Years later, as a wealthy widow in Europe, Amy plans revenge against Marchmont, but love for a faithful artist-friend, Hugh Dinsmore, and worthier instincts pre- vail in a stilted, moralistic tale. (M.S.T.) Av Ch DC Rl Sb SL UNC WC

Bonny Kate, by Christian Reid, pseud. 589 New York: Appleton, 1878. 222pp. At Fairfields plantation (presumably in Piedmont North Carolina), bonny Kate Lawrence loves the profligate Frank Tarleton. Their happiness comes finally after numerous complications and misunderstandings. Throughout, belles and handsome beaux are busily engaged in horse races, fox-hunting, picnics, parties, and prolonged visits. Bonny Kate herself is a vivid, well-drawn heroine. (R.W.) Av AS DU Rl RpM Sb SL Wm TlERNAN

A Child of Mary, by Christian Reid, pseud. 590 Notre Dame, Ind.: Joseph A. Lyons, 1885. 352pp. Renee Leigh, reared a Roman Catholic, comes to Clarendon after her parents' death. She devotes her brief life and fortune to the establishment of a Catholic church. Among her converts in this Protestant community is Adrian Stanmore, who, at her death, inherits her fortune and enters the priesthood. (M.C.H.)2

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A Daughter of Bohemia, A Novel, by Christian Reid, pseud. 591 New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1874. 222pp. In this formal, Victorian, slow-moving story, Leslie Grahame brings her half-sister, Norah Desmond, to Alton [Piedmont North Carolina?] from Europe. Since Leslie's betrothed, Arthur Tyndale, has not broken an earlier engagement to "Bohemian" Norah, complications arise, involving other suitors and secret rendezvous before love's entanglements are unraveled. (M.S.T.)

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Fairy Gold, by Christian Reid, pseud. 592 Notre Dame, Ind.: Ave Maria Press, 1897. 257pp. In this pro-Catholic novel Marion Lynde, haughty and beautiful but penniless, pleases wealthy old Mr. Singleton, from whom she inherits half a million. The scene is Scarborough [Salisbury?] in the late 1870's. When Singleton's son unexpectedly appears, she releases the "fairy gold" and accepts the love of a poor painter. (R.W.)

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A Gentle Belle, A Novel, by Christian Reid, pseud. 593 New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1879. 142pp. Alma Deering, after her father's death, leaves Italy to live with relatives. Dare Singleton's immature antics entangle him with Alma's half-sister who schemes to share Alma's inherited fortune. Singleton's maturity grows from his remorse for his misconduct. Setting: a Southern plantation presumably in North Carolina. (M.C.H.) 2

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His Victory, by Christian Reid, pseud. 594 Notre Dame, Ind.: Ave Maria Press, 1887. 83pp. In mountainous Linville, Max Neville's engagement to Clare Ingram is broken when she learns he has been divorced. When his former Teernan 145

wife dies, the two are free to marry. This novelette is a propa- gandist treatise on the wisdom and Tightness of the Catholic ruling against the remarriage of divorced persons. (R.W.) Rl UNC

The Land of the Sky; or Adventures in Mountain By-ways, 595 by Christian Reid, pseud. New York: Appleton, 1875. 130pp. A group of young people, properly chaperoned, go on a grand tour of the mountains. Taking the stage at Old Fort, they visit Asheville, Warm Springs, Mt. Mitchell, and Flat Rock. Endlessly they gaze at scenery and have mild flirtations. This famous book still possesses attractions. (R.W.)

A Little Maid of Arcady, by Christian Reid, pseud. 596 Philadelphia: H. L. Kilner and Co., 1893. 284pp.

Bernadette Arnaud, at the age of four, is left an orphan when her mother is killed in a train wreck in the Blue Ridge Valley. She is reared by the Camerons, whose son Alan she later marries. A series of events lead to her reunion with her real family from New Orleans. (M.C.H.) 2 BA DU Rl SL UNC

Mabel Lee, A Novel, by the Author of "Valerie Aylmer," 597 "Morton House," Etc. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1872. 162pp. Mabel Lee, beautiful goddaughter of Gervase Seyton, owner of an Ayre [Catawba] River mansion, is courted by Seyton's nephews and contenders for the property, Philip Conway and Cyril Harding. Other suitors are also involved in Mabel's hypnotism, abduction, and mental lapse, but love finally conquers in this melodramatic, Vic- torian story. (M.S.T.) Av CC Ch DU Sb SL UNC Wm

Miss Churchill, A Study, by Christian Reid, pseud. 598 New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1887. 294pp. In a story of little plot and vitality, Cecil Churchill leaves her prosaic plantation life in the pinelands near "Oldfield" [central North Carolina?] around 1880, through the generosity of Bernard Lysle, journalist-adventurer. In Italy and Egypt Cecil grows away from Bernard but repents before tragedy overtakes her improbably pati- ent lover. (M.S.T.) Av Ch Rl SL UNC WC Wm TlERNAN

Nina's Atonement, and Other Stories, by Christian Reid, pseud. 599 New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1873. 154pp. Seven melodramatic, formal stories concerned with the thorny paths of true, false, and misunderstood love. Settings for "Nina's Atone- ment," "Miss Cheriton's Rival," "My Story," and "Bernard's Inven- tion" are plantations or small towns, possibly in Piedmont North Carolina. "The Painter's Dream" occurs in the mountains, and two stories have foreign settings. (M.S.T.) Av Ch DU Rl Sb SL UNC WC

A Question of Honor, A Novel, by Christian Reid, pseud. 600 New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1875. 501pp. A wordy, moralistic novel of post-Civil War Stansbury [Salisbury?], where Arnold Devereux comes to claim the property of blind Mary Carlisle, whom he learns to love. Upon Mary's death, he finds Madeleine Severn his real love, but Madeleine refuses him and Mary's willed property until business recalls Devereux to Stansbury. (M.S.T.) Av BwR Ch DC DU Rl UNC

Roslyn's Fortune, by Christian Reid, pseud. 601 New York: Appleton, 1885. 288pp. At Verdevale, plantation near Kirton [Salisbury?] in Eldon [Rowan?] County, 17-year-old Roslyn Vardray rejects suits of both her affec- tionate stepbrother and 45-year-old wealthy Colonel Hugo Duncan, in favor of handsome interloper Victor Laurent. When Laurent proves himself without honor, she marries the kindly Duncan. Trite style and artificial characterization. (R.W.) Av BA Ch DU Rl

The Secret Bequest, by Christian Reid, pseud. 602 Notre Dame, Ind.: Ava Maria Press, 1915. 333pp. Honora Trezevant inherits a fortune in Kingsford [Salisbury?] when the expected heir Bernard Chisholm embraces Roman Catholicism, to his rich great-uncle's displeasure. When her worldly sister Cecily is crippled, Honora, surrendering her wealth, turns to Catholicism and Bernard. Belmont Abbey and Lake Toxaway scenes. Theme is mystical attraction of Catholicism. (R.W.) Notre Dame College Library, Cleveland, Ohio.

A Summer Idyl, by Christian Reid, pseud. 603 New York: Appleton, 1878. 211pp. In Transylvania County at the Tyrrell home on the banks of the French Broad, daughter Flora rejects two suitors, her cousin Harry TlERNAN 147

Sunderland and the writer Geoffrey Charlton. The characters of this romantic novel are merely in the mountains, not of them; the descriptions of scenery are all important. (R.W.) Av Ch Rl SL UNC

The Wargrave Trust, by Christian Reid, pseud. 604 New York: Benziger, 1912. 384pp.

The setting is the country place [Cooleemee Plantation, Davie County] of Judge Wargrave, who entails his estate to a nephew when he believes his son disgraced. The story is highly improbable, revolv- ing on the value of the Catholic confessional. A dying man relates malpractices which clear the Judge's son. (R.W.)

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Tomlinson, Everett Titworth, 1859-1931. 605

The Mysterious Rifleman: A Story of the American Revolution. New York: Appleton, 1921. 244pp. In July 1781, protected by Cornwallis' forces, Tories in Wilmington harass their patriot neighbors. Colonel Bludworth, son Tim, bound boy Jim Paget, and slave Lige build a fortress inside a huge hollow cypress opposite the Wilmington wharf and, from this undetected mysterious position, disperse Tory ravaging parties. For older boys. (R.W.) LC

Tourgee, Albion Winegar, 1838-1905. 606

Bricks Without Straw. New York: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1880. 521pp. Story of several individuals in Horsford [Guilford] County [1880-70] who attempt to educate the Negroes and effect their actual freedom. Lacking Northern aid and understanding and amidst Southern hostilities, they meet with as little success as when the Israelites were ordered by Pharaoh to make bricks but given no straw. (S.F.B.)

A Fool's Errand, By One of The Fools. 607 New York: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1879. 361pp. Comfort Servosse, the "Fool," a former Union soldier, residing in Verdonton [Greensboro] during 1865-1877, describes his "errand" 148 TOURGEE

as a carpetbagger, by presenting both Northern and Southern view- points concerning Reconstruction policies, the KKK, the Negroes' new freedom, and the Southern social system. The book, widely read when published, is semiautobiographical. (S.F.B.)

John Eax and Mamelon. 608 New York: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1882. 300pp. Two stories. John Eax, black sheep of an aristocratic Childsboro [Greensboro] family, marries a poor white, goes west, becomes a Yankee General and finally returns home [1865]. From "Mamelon," an ancient mound on the Dan River in North Carolina, relics are uncovered that provide their owner with a hobby and riches in 1874. (S.F.B.)

A Royal Gentleman and 'Zouri's Christmas. 609 New York: Fords, Howard, and Hulbert, 1881. 529pp. While society agreeably "looks away," as Geoffrey Hunter takes "yaller gal" Toinette for his beloved mistress, it cannot permit their marriage. A mystery and the War also disrupt life at Lovett Lodge, Perham [Greensboro?] [1858-1867]. Santa, aided by kindly whites, brings Christmas to an orphaned freed-girl on Dan River plantation [1875]. (A Royal Gentleman is revision of 'Toinette, 1874.) (S.F.B.) Av DU RpM SL UNC

Tousey, Sanford. 610

Airplane Andy. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1942. 43pp. The son of a commercial pilot goes on a regular flight with his father. Later he flies over Kitty Hawk and hears about the Wright brothers' first flight from a witness. En route home the boy stops a leak in the plane, making it possible for his father to complete the journey. Ages 6-10. (V.W.P.)

Townsend, Meta Folger, 1862- 611

In the Nantahalas. New York: Broadway, 1910. 186pp. Mrs. Townsend, minister's wife of Lincolnton, reveals her affection and regard for mountaineers in this story of Linda, a young girl, who despite her simple upbringing near Nantahala, is successful in the Brevard school, and equal to the aristocrats and intelligentsia she meets in her search for a Christian life. (S.F.B.) TOWNSEND 149

On Golden Hinges. 612 New York: Broadway, 1917. 320pp. Charles Carrington's wealth speeds a change in the North Carolina divorce laws that he may divorce his insane wife and marry Evelyn Rossiter. Evelyn's family and friends ostracize her, and Mrs. Car- rington eventually recovers. Evelyn leaves Charles and, finding

Mrs. Carrington ill, nurses her until her death, after which a general reconciliation is effected. (L.R.W.) SL UNC

Tracy, Don, 1905- 613

Carolina Corsair. New York: Dial Press, 1955. 375pp. This ribald tale of the pirate Edward Teach, alias Blackbeard, moves from foreign spots to Bath, Topsail Inlet, and Ocracoke. It fills in the background for the pact between Blackbeard and the Governor's secretary Tobias Knight for sharing loot in 1717-18, but makes generous departures from history. (E.W.)

Cherokee. 614 New York: Dial Press, 1957. 376pp.

The conflict between white settlers and Cherokees, 1821-1838, is centered on the love of Meg, wife of cowardly Richard Sherrill, and Suti (Two Fallen Panthers), handsome young chief of Oconaluftee. Historical characters in this sympathetic story are John Ross, William Holland Thomas, Nancy Ward, Tsali, and Yonaguska. (R.W.)

On the Midnight Tide. 615 New York: Dial Press, 1957. 369pp. In 1863, the two up-from-white-trash Grayson brothers are the best pilots for blockade-runners in and out of war-booming Wilmington. The older Champ is more steady, while Jim Billy is wooing high- born Victoria Bellew. Spies, traitors, prostitutes, and even a few good Confederates populate a dramatic, exciting, blood-and-thunder historical novel. (R.W.)

Roanoke Renegade. 616 New York: Dial Press, 1954. 369pp. Racy novel of Roanoke Island, 1584-90, through the eyes of aristocratic (fictitious) Dion Harvie. Admiring Wanchese for his tribal loyalty, he despises turncoat Manteo and those incompetent leaders 150 Tracy

Grenville, Lane, and White. Finally he retreats from civilization with friendly Roanokes; other survivors are sold as slaves to the Indians. (R.W.)

Tracy, J. Perkins. 617

The Blockade Runner. New York: Street and Smith, 1896. 267pp. Bob Bentham, reared by his uncle, a staunch supporter of the South, decides that his sympathies lie with the Union. The uncle forbids his adopted daughter, who is in love with Bob, to see the boy. All ends happily, however, after the customary struggles. Ages 13-17. (T.C.M.) Hb UNC

Trowbridge, John Townsend, 1827-1916. 618

The Drummer Boy. A Story of Burnside's Expedition. Boston: J. E. Tilton, 1863. 334pp. Frank Manly, drummer boy in the Federal army, redeems himself in the Battle of Roanoke Island (1862) after some un-Manly conduct, while treacherous Jack Winch reveals cowardice and is duly punished. The battle also provides melodrama in the reunion between Frank and a long-lost brother. (E.J.E.) DU UNC

True, John Preston, 1859-1933. 619

On Guard! Against Tory and Tarleton. Boston: Little, Brown, 1902. 302pp. Thp campaign around Cowpens and Guilford Court House, 1781. (A.E.)

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Tunis, John Roberts, 1889- 620

Highpockets. New York: Morrow, 1948. 189pp. Highpockets, a self-centered young baseball player in Bryson City, is straightened out through an automobile accident involving a young boy. Good high school story of personal and social relations in the field of sport. (E.H.C.) Tunis 151

Son of the Valley. 621 New York: Morrow, 1949. 192pp. Story of a boy's struggle to make a success of their farm after his father goes to work for TVA. Western North Carolina included in the setting. Ages 12-16. (E.H.C.)

Tupper, Tristram, 1886- 622

Adventuring. New York: George H. Doran, 1923. 214pp. Josephine Davis, educated on her father's fishing boat, gets a pilot's license and, by marrying an eccentric rich admirer, a yacht and finally love. A light novel set in Beaufort and the fishing grounds nearby, with the action shifting to Salter's Path [sic], Fort Macon, and Beaufort Inlet. (R.W.) LC WnB

Turner, Orren Jack, 1889- 623

Lightly Lies the Earth. New York: Vantage Press, 1955. 304pp. An unrelenting Fate pursues Daniel Enfield through a life of illegiti- macy, murder, and incest. The first part of this tragic first-person novel centers in Trantersville [Tarboro]. The action of this strong, compelling suspense story covers forty years and ends in New Jersey during the hurricane of September, 1944. (R.W.)

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Turner, Robert Harry, 1915- 624

The Tobacco Auction Murders. New York: Ace Books, 1954. 131pp. Jake Krane, New York policeman, arrives in Wilsboro [Wendell, with a courthouse], typical eastern tobacco town near Raleigh, to investigate his wife's disappearance while visiting her father, a farmer. Krane solves her murder and others—all the result of swindling in a tobacco warehouse. Colorful though exaggerated background. (R.W.) Hk UNC 152 TUTTLE

Tuttle, Louise Jennings. 625

Acres of Beauty. New York: Fortuny's, 1936. 188pp. This simply written story centers around Tom Beverly's love for Ann, and his dream of owning a farm. They and the Hazels, Dick and Jane, successfully solve the problems of the 1930 depression, in Meray [Lenoir], a mill town in Western North Carolina. (J.E.B.) Kn Ln Mg SL UNC WC

Van Buren, Caroline. 626

Five Little Martins and the Martin House. Boston: Marshall Jones, 1930. 286pp. The five little Martins are children from a small town, who through a series of disconnected ventures, accomplish several good deeds. Spliced into these ray-of-sunshine exploits are a few less meaning- ful but more realistic events: fishing, tree climbing, picnics, boating. Ages 8-12. (W. Bft.) Mg Sb UNC Wm WnB

Van Loon, Elizabeth. 627

The Shadow of Hampton Mead. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, 1878. 281pp. Villainous Lawrence Hastings casts the shadow that blights "Hamp- ton Mead," a plantation in Western North Carolina (probably near Burnsville). His evil plot to destroy the Hampton family and seize their wealth almost succeeds, but is thwarted as the author "dis- penses poetical justice to all" in this incredibly plotted romance. (M.C.)i Av DU

Vaughan, Frank, 1828-1912. 628

Kate Weathers; or, Scattered by the Tempest. A Novel. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1878. 437pp. The people of Dare County area in 1789—the "wreckers" on the banks, the fishermen on the island, and curious hermits and casta- ways at a lake on the mainland—crowd this unusual novel. The survivors of a wrecked ship have many exciting adventures till all comes right. (R.W.) Av UNC Verne 153

Verne, Jules, 1828-1905. 629 Facing the Flag. New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1897. 217pp. In the early 1890's, from Healthful House, a sanitarium on the Neuse River opposite New Bern, an insane French inventor, Thomas Roch, is kidnapped by pirate Ker Karraje and taken to remote Bermuda island to build a weapon 100 times more destructive than anything known. First fourth of novel is set in North Carolina. (R.W.) UNC Wm

The Master of the World. 630 New York: Vincent Parke, 1905. 114pp.

Robur the Conqueror (present book is sequel to novel by that name) uses Great Eyrie, a mountain near Morganton, as base for his machine, the "Terror," a combined automobile, boat, submarine, and airplane. Defying government, he is sought by inspector Strock. From explosions, Carolinians think Great Eyrie a volcano. (R.W.) Fc Gs Hk Gs UNC

Vernon, Charlie, pseud. See Craven, Braxton

Vining, Elizabeth Janet Gray. See Gray, Elizabeth Janet

Vorse, Mary Heaton. 631

Strike! New York: Liveright, 1930. 376pp. Through the experiences of Roger Hewlett, a Northern newspaper reporter, a dramatic story is told of Fer Deane, strike leader, as he tries to organize unions in Stonerton [Gastonia]. As the struggle goes on its tragic way, Roger comes to sympathize with Fer and his co-workers. (M.M.H.) DU GUC Em SL UNC WC

W., A. O. See Wheeler, A. O.

W., L. C. See Wood, Lydia Cope

Wagstaff, Henry McGilbert, 1876-1945. 632

Wiley Buck and Other Stories of the Concord Community. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1953. 118pp. These childhood reminiscences of a small Methodist community in 154 Walker

Person County in the late nineteenth century can be termed fiction only in a loose sense. The pieces, which read like short stories, are filled with odd and warming personalities and events in a tobacco- growing area. (R.W.)

Walker, Nona. 633

Kappy Oliver. New York: Holt, 1956. 256pp. Kappy Oliver of Philadelphia, on her first Southern visit, spends the winter in Yancey City [Greensboro?] while her parents are abroad. She devotes the school year to helping a friend improve her looks, make more friends, and join the debating team; she sees a new personality develop through her efforts. Ages 14-18. (V.W.P.)

Wall, Mary Virginia. 634

The Daughter of Virginia Dare. New York and Washington: Neale, 1908. 194pp. The Roanoke Colonists of 1587 are exterminated by starvation and hostile Catawbas. Later Powhatan takes Virginia Dare his captive wife; she dies after a daughter, Pocahontas, is born. The principal offense of this ingenuous novel, mostly concerning the Jamestown settlement, is that Virginia was a mother when eight years old! (R.W.) DC Dr SL UNC

Wallin, Clarence Monroe. 635

Gena of the Appalachians. New York: Cochrane Publishing Co., 1910. 109pp. Gena, an orphan, lives with Jose Dillinburger who abuses her until he is arrested for moonshining. Gena gets Jose's land and moves in with a neighbor who sends her to college. Paul Waffington, a church worker who had met Gena as a small girl, returns to marry her. Ages 15-17. (T.C.M.) UNC

Walser, Richard Gaither, 1908- 636

North Carolina in the Short Story. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1948. 309pp. The 15 short stories by different authors present life in North Caro- lina from the mountains to the sea and from "the waning years of Walton 155

the nineteenth century" to the present. An interesting and informative preface gives facts about the authors and logical reasons for the choice of stories. (C.M.P.)

UNC has author's manuscript.

Walton, Alice Worthen, 1856- 637

One Woman's Life: The Steppings of Faith. Edna Gray's Story. Atlanta: Franklin, 1898. 335pp. Claiming to be autobiography with only the names fictitious, this book tells the dismal story of a McDowell County mother of five children. Her paranoic husband persecutes her into illness and blindness for six years, but she succeeds in saving herself and their children from his insane malevolence. (R.W.) DU NCS SL UNC WnB

Walz, Audrey. 638

Dead Reckoning, by Francis Bonnamy, pseud. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943. 248pp. A section of this whodunit takes the principal characters, who are looking for pirate treasure, to Wilmington and a resort "Grossett's Point" off Smith Island. All is garish and cheap, and the salt marshes are foreboding of disaster. Unimpressive book. (R.W.) UNC Wm

Ward, R. M. See Chase, Richard

Washburn, Claude Carlos, 1883- 639

The Green Arch. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. 147pp. Fleeing the disillusionment of war and love, a New Yorker arrives in Beckett [Tryon] for a rest. On a horseback ride into the forest, he passes through a rhododendron archway and finds himself in a land of romantic unreality—his own youth and dreams. Fantasy, North Carolina mountain style. (R.W.)

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Wathen, Richard, 1916- 640

Cliffs of Fall. New Orleans: Publications Press, Inc., 1953. 304pp. Clark Fariston dabbles with Communist movement while a Prince- ton student. Returning to North Carolina, he is tremendously successful managing an inherited business. Communistic former class- mates blackmail him and then secure the torpedoing of a World War II ship to which he is assigned. He survives and returns to North Carolina. (L.R.W.) SL UNC

Watkins, Shirley. 641 Jane Lends a Hand. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Company, 1923. 334pp. The Lambert family operates a bakery in Frederickstown ["near Goldsboro"] which belongs to Mrs. Lambert's family, the Winklers. Nephew Paul Winkler comes to live with them but prefers painting to baking. Young Jane Lambert enters one of Paul's drawings in a contest, and his winning earns favor and recognition from Mr. Lambert. Ages 8-16. (M.B.)i Rl SL UNC

Watterson, Henry, 1840-1921, editor. 642

Oddities in Southern Life and Character. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1882. 485pp. An anthology of humor of the South (chiefly the Old South West) including Longstreet, Bill Arp, Joel Chandler Harris, etc. A North Carolina court of justice is the setting for Hamilton C. Jones' "Cousin Sally Dillard," a six-page sketch. (M.C.)i Dr DU Gs GUC Rl Rm SC UNC WC

Webster, Henry Kitchell, 1875-1932. 643 Traitor and Loyalist; or The Man Who Found His Country. New York: Macmillan, 1904. 318pp. In 1861-62 brothers Martin and Winthrop Carver, the first a blockade-runner for the South, the second a Federal spy, are divided over war and also pretty Celia Townley, a North Carolina beauty. The vivid scenes of Wilmington at war, and blockade-running into the Cape Fear, are drawn with moderate Northern sympathies. (R.W.) UNC Wechter 157

Wechter, Nell Wise, 1913- 644

Taffy of Torpedo Junction* Winston-Salem: John F. Blair, 1957. 134pp. In 1941-42, 13-year-old Taffy Willis lives with her grandfather in a shack near Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. There she sees the numerous sinkings of Allied ships by Nazi submarines. Her encounter with German saboteurs makes for mystery and excitement. Authentic background of the Carolina coast in war time. Girls 11-14. (R.W.)

Weir, James, 1821-1906. 645

Simon Kenton: or, The Scout's Revenge. An Historical Novel. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, 1851. 195pp. About 1790 (?) the Leatherstocking-like hero, a real-life companion of Boone's, returns to Hillsboro near the "head-waters of the River

Yadkin" [!] to escort some friends back to Kentucky. He aids a handsome young lover in winning his bride from a treacherous rival. Well-plotted frontier historical romance. (R.W.) LC

Wellman, Manly Wade, 1903- 646

The Haunts of Drowning Creek. New York: Holiday, 1951. 205pp. On a canoe trip down the Lumber River from Moore County towards Lumberton, two boys get involved in a treasure hunt for long-lost Confederate gold. A swampy creek, a decaying old house, haunts, a "monster," and Croatan Indians provide excitement, swift action, adventure, and mystery. Sequel to The Raiders of Beaver Lake. Boys 11-16. (R.W.)

The Last Mammoth. 647 New York: Holiday House, 1953. 222pp.

This is a credible tale of the last American "elephant." In 1754 Sam Ward, 19-year-old companion of young Dan Boone, goes with his Cherokee friend Otter across the mountains westward from Brooke's Fort in the North Carolina wilderness to deliver Otter's people from a ravaging mammoth. Exciting Indian adventure. Boy 12-16. (R.W.)

Lights Over Skeleton Ridge. 648 New York: Ives Washburn, 1957. 180pp. Teenager Dave Burnett goes with Professor Dinwiddie to the Blue

* Winner of the A.A.U.W. Award for juvenile literature, 1957. 158 Wellman

Ridge country to investigate an old mine dating from the 16th century. He clears the mystery of the lights [Brown Mountain Lights], foils a mountain witchdoctor, learns to play a banjo, and explores the mine. Much mountain lore. Ages 10-14. (R.W.)

The Raiders of Beaver Lake. 649 New York: Holiday House, 1950. 160pp. Mystery-adventure set in Moore County, where beaver colonies have been established by U. S. government to restore animals to natural habitat. Randy Hunter, reared in the North, and Jeb Markum, son of local merchant, defeat illegal trappers by use of good sense and Boy Scout training. Strong on local color. Boys 11-16. (R.W.)

Wild Dogs of Drowning Creek. 650 New York: Holiday House, 1952. 221pp. In the swamps of Scotland County the two friends of The Haunts of Drowning Creek are mystified by a pack of wild dogs led by a strange beast much larger than the rest. North Carolina history and folklore are germane to an exciting plot. Boys 11-16. (R.W.)

Wells, Mary E. See Leavitt, Alga E.

Wheeler, A. O. 651

Eye Witness; or, Life Scenes in the Old North State, Depicting the Trials and Sufferings of the Unionists during the B.ebellion. By A. O. W. Boston: B. B. Russell, 1865. 276pp. In Wilmington, July 1861, Harry and Maggie Blout, wealthy South- ern cousins but Northern sympathizers, pretend Confederate loyalty but secretly help those persecuted for Yankee fidelity. In Kittrell Springs and Whiteville the soldiers and belles disport. This poorly written propaganda, ''drawn from life," closes when Burnside occupies New Bern, March 1862. (R.W.) Av DU NCS SL UNC WC WM WnB

Whitham, Grace I. 651a

Basil the Page, A Story of the Days of Queen Elizabeth. London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1908. 211pp. Basil, page at Wormald Court, saves the life of Mary, Queen of Scots, by pouring out some poisoned wine. This brave deed brings Whitney 159

him a new master who is soon taken prisoner to "Virginia" [Roanoke Island]. The story tells of young Basil's voyage to Roanoke to rescue his master. (W.S.P.)

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Whitney, Annie Weston. 652 The Southern Cousin. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1892. 280pp. This sentimental story begins and ends in a small North Carolina town, home of Helen Carter (the Southern cousin). Helen spends a year in her uncle's worldly household in New York City. Her quiet goodness transforms the family into a loving group, and attracts a wealthy suitor, dapper Mr. Edmands. (M.C.)i Av DU

Whittlesey, Sarah Johnson Cogswell, 1825-1896. 653

Bertha the Beauty: A Story of the Southern Revolution. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1872. 382pp. In and about Williamsville [Williamston, where author was reared] Bertha Belmont undergoes prolonged hardships after marriage to a handsome, jealous, worthless Northerner. Semiautobiographical, this novel covers 1845-1865 and has many scenes of plantation life near Roanoke River. True events of the War are related. Uneven in plot; romantic. (R.W.) Av DU RpM UNC

The Stranger's Stratagem; or, The Double Deceit, and Other 654 Stories. New York: M. W. Dodd, 1859. 405pp. Three of these seven little moralities of courtship and marriage by a Williamston author are set indefinitely in the South (but presumably in North Carolina). All of the 17-year-old heroines are either pursuing or being pursued; some are even abducted. Period literature, clearly slanted toward the pure-minded ante-bellum Southern girl. (R.W.) Av UNC

Wicker, Thomas Grey, 1926- 655 The Devil Must. New York: Harper, 1957. 280pp.

Near the courthouse town of Marion [Lumberton?], a farmer is 160 Wicker

murdered and a young Negro accused. Young newspaperman Sandy Martin, with the help of the solicitor and the town editor, gets the real killer, but not before their own lives are involved. Witchcraft provides a solution. Novel of action and pace. (R.W.)

Get Out of Town, by Paul Connolly, pseud. 656 New York: Fawcett, 1951. 164pp. In Hampton [the author's native Hamlet] a World War II veteran and a courageous newspaperwoman solve a string of murders, uncover the mysterious operators of a dope racket, and restore law and order to the town. Action, suspense, and deft plotting. (R.W.) UNC

The Kingpin. 657 New York: Sloane, 1953. 343pp. In Capital City [Raleigh] a vicious primary campaign [Smith- Graham] for the U. S. Senate is underway between Colonel Pollock and newspaperman Ralph Anson. The chief manipulator is ruthless Bill Tucker, dealer in the dirty politics of slander and race hatred. A powerful political novel of contemporary times. (R.W.)

So Fair, So Evil, by Paul Connolly, pseud. 658 New York: Gold Medal Books, 1955. 159pp. Returning to Huntersville, fictitious town, exactly 100 miles from

the seacoast, on July 3, 1953, Korean veteran Frank Sinclair starts searching for the murderer of his wife Dolly. At Old Hundred, her former plantation home, he runs into violence and decadence among her family and friends. An exciting murder mystery. (R.W.) UNC

Tears Are for Angels, by Paul Connolly, pseud. 659 New York: Fawcett, 1952. 177pp.

To fictitious tobacco-growing Coshocken County, with its country seat St. Johns of 1,000 population, veteran Harry London returns with his pretty wife Lucy. Lucy, a bad number, is shot; and Harry plans revenge with Jean, his wife's old friend. Novel of the "tough" school, full of fighting and sex. (R.W.) UNC 161 ALAMANCE;

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Wilder, Robert, 1901- 660 Mr. G. Strings Along. New York: Putnam, 1944. 217pp. Mr. Grafton made jumping frogs at Two Folks, a small town near New Bern, until the government put him into war production. Christine, a blonde from Washington, eventually converted Mr. G. Satirical humor for sophisticated readers. (N.G.)

Written on the Wind. 661 New York: Putnam, 1946. 333pp. In Winton [Winston-Salem] live the wealthy Whitfield [Reynolds?] family, scions of a tobacco fortune. Now worthless to themselves and others, Cary and Ann-Charlotte are victims of alcoholism and nymphomania. Their lives, tangled with those of Cary's actress wife Lillith and his friend Reece, lead to Cary's death. Racy narrative. (R.W.)

Wiley, Calvin Henderson, 1819-1887. 662

Alamance; or, The Great and Final Experiment. New York: Harper, 1847. 151pp. This historical novel of Revolutionary times about the folk of Ala- mance Presbyterian Church in Guilford County includes the battles of Camden and Guilford Court House. The conflicting loyalties of local Whigs and Tories are seen through the eyes of schoolmaster Hector M'Bride. First novel to be written by a native North Caro- linian. (R.W.) AS Av Ch DC DU Mg SL UNC WC Ws

Roanoke: or, Where Is Utopia? 663 Philadelphia: Peterson, 1866. 156pp. Nags Head, New Bern, Wilmington, and Moores Creek provide setting for this historical narrative of the Revolution. Walter Tucker, young patriotic adventurer, moves among soldiers, young ladies, and politicians. Roanoke serialized, 1849; published as Adventures of Old Dan Tucker, 1851; as Utopia, 1852; as Life in the South, 1852. (R.W.) Av Dr DU Rl RpM SL UNC WC Wm Ws

Willett, Edward, 1830-1889. 664

True Blue; or, The Writing in Cipher. A Tale of the Old North State. New York: American News Co., 1865. 41pp. Adam Badeau, wealthy Cape Fear planter, is loyal to the Union. He is put in prison but escapes to Western North Carolina. His property Williams 163

is confiscated and his family harassed. All ends well: property- restored, daughter married to a Union soldier, villain hung, and serene peace settled over the Southland. (W. Bft.) UNC WnB

Williams, Ben Ames, 1889- 665

House Divided. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1947. 1514pp. The story centers around a wealthy old Virginia family, their efforts in the Civil War, and its impact upon them. Trav Currain is an aide to Longstreet and a close, sympathetic picture of Longstreet is presented. Portions of the action take place in North Carolina. (H.W.M.)

Williams, Morris. See Gildon, Charles.

Wilson, William Thomas. 656

For the Love of Lady Margaret: A Romance of the Lost Colony. Charlotte: Stone & Barringer, 1908. 305pp.

The subtitle is misleading. Towards the end of this slap-dash sixteenth-century story, swashbuckling Sir Thomas Winchester goes with John White—and Manteo [!] —to look for the Lost Colonists. In the Indian-thick forests he rescues Lady Margaret Carroll from the pirate DeNortier and the villainous Lord Dunraven, then returns home. (R.W.)

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Winfield, Robert, pseud. See Glascock, Harold

Wirt, Mildred Augustine, 1905- 667

Pirate Brig. New York: Scribner's, 1950. 194pp.

Ben Reeves is shanghaied by Blackbeard and forced to serve as cabin boy on a brig. He is marooned on an island off the Carolina coast [Ocracoke] with mutinous pirates. Rescued by pirate Stede Bonnet, he discovers treasure buried by Blackbeard and proof of conspiracy with North Carolina merchants. Ages 12-16. (D.B.T.)

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Wise, Daly, pseud. See McCora, Patrick William

Wise, John Sergeant, 1846-1913. 668

Diomed. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1907. 330pp. Life, travels, and opinions of an English setter. The dog narrates his hunting trips with his master, chiefly in his native Virginia, but also in the Carolinas, Florida, Texas, and Minnesota, 1883-1895. Quail hunting in the Kings Mountain area is described briefly. For dog lovers aged 12 and over. (E.J.E.)

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Wolfe, Thomas Clayton, 1900-1937. 670

From Death to Morning. New York: Scribner's, 1935. 304pp. In this volume of essays and short stories, "The Four Lost Men," 'The Far and the Near," "The Men of Old Catawba," "Circus at Dawn," and "The Web of Earth" imply some connection with the North Carolina scene. All amply illustrate Wolfe's lyric style. (R.W.)

The Hills Beyond. With Note by Edward C. Aswell. 671 New York: Harper, 1941. 386pp.

The title-story is the beginning of an unfinished novel about the mountain folk of Old Catawba [North Carolina]. "The Lost Boy" and other shorter selections are frequently fragmentary, many of them deleted portions of the four major novels. (R.W.)

Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life. 672 New York: Scribner's, 1929. 626pp. This novel, generally considered the high water mark of North Carolina literature, is a fictional autobiography. Eugene Gant grows up in Altamont [Asheville], goes to college [U.N.C.], and resolves to leave home. The story-line is unimportant beside the youthful lyric style, the brilliant characterizations, and the emotional intensity. (R.W.)

Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger 673 in His Youth. New York: Scribner's, 1935. 912pp. The hero of Look Homeward, Angel leaves Altamont to study play- writing at Harvard, returns home when his father dies, starts teach- Wolfe 165

ing English at a New York university, then goes to Europe. This masterpiece recounts the joys and frustrations of a young man aware of the variety and greatness of America. (R.W.)

The Web and the Rock. 674 New York: Harper, 1939. 695pp.

Though the hero's name is changed to George Webber, his youth is passed in Libya Hill [Asheville] and he goes to a small Southern college. Not long after his arrival in New York, his life assumes the pattern of Eugene Gant's, and he is involved in a passionate love affair. (R.W.)

You Can't Go Home Again. 675 New York: Harper, 1940. 743pp. Sequel to The Web and the Rock. Webber, returning from Europe, goes to his home town to find it money-mad in a real-estate boom. Later, he works with his editor on a novel [Look Homeward, Angel], lives through the Depression, visits Nazi Germany, then concludes with triumphant hope for Mankind. (R.W.)

Womble, Walter L. 676

Love in the Mists. Raleigh: Edwards and Broughton, 1892. 141pp. Will Retlaw, handsome young revenue officer, goes to the land of mists [near Webster] to capture a band of moonshiners. Finding beautiful Kathleen Dahr held captive, he rescues and marries her, following a series of melodramatic and contrived incidents. (A.B.C.) Av DU UNC

Wood, Charles Barnette, 1906- 677

First, the Fields. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941. 308pp. High Winton, land-owning tobacco farmer, lives ten miles from Granville [Roxboro]. From the lush days of boyhood to his defeat by the heat and storms of Nature, and the low prices of the big companies, this novel of the Old Belt presents a rounded picture of the tobacco country. (R.W.)

Wood, Lydia Cope. 678

The Haydocks' Testimony, by L. C. W. Philadelphia: Christian Arbitration and Peace Society, 1890. 276pp. Despite the unpopularity of their beliefs about slavery and military 166 WO0LS0N

service during the Civil War, James Haydock and his staunch Quaker family and friends never waver in their religious convictions. This moralizing tale is set "in the State of North Carolina, not far from the borders of the Dismal Swamp." (E.J.E.) DU UNC

Woolson, Constance Fenimobe, 1840-1894. 679

For the Major, A Novelette. New York: Harper, 1883. 208pp. The story centers around the social amenities of a small town in Western North Carolina in the late 1860's. Madame Carroll and a young Episcopal rector are the characters around which the plot develops. The genteel traditions of a small town as it tries to main- tain "social" standards are the centers of activities. (C.M.A.) DU UNC WC

Horace Chase. 680 New York: Harper, 1894. 419pp. In Asheville of the middle 1870's, wealthy Horace Chase marries young Ruth Franklin. The difference in their ages almost ends in tragedy. All the principal characters are Northerners, the North Carolina mountains serving only as a backdrop for their story. The scene shifts to St, Augustine and briefly to Raleigh. (R.W.)

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Rodman the Keeper. 681 New York: Harper, 1886. 339pp. The ten sketches in this volume are composed of the author's impressions of everyday life in the South in the 1870's. Locations are sometimes vague, as "in the Carolina cotton country," for example. (L.B.) DC DU SL UNC

Worth Katkryn. 1898- 682

The Middle Button. New York: Doubleday, 1941. 274pp. Although Maggie McArn, living in Guilford County, is only 14 years old, she has decided to be a doctor—a most unreasonable decision for —

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a girl living in 1883. But this determined young miss is on her way North to enroll in medical school when the story ends. Girls 12-16. (M.C.H.)i

Sea Change. 683 Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1948. 240pp. On vacation at Carrington Beach [Wrightsville] with her wealthy grandmother in 1893, teenager Kristy Nicholson falls for Francis O'Hanlon, an Irish Roman Catholic, and thereby learns to respect other religions. Fishing, surfing, boating, digging for treasure and a hurricane! Girls 12-16. (R.W.)

They Loved to Laugh. 684 Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1942. 269pp. An orphan girl comes to live with a family of Guilford County Quakers in 1831-33. She has difficulty seeing the spiritual qualities beneath the practical jokes of the five Gardner boys but eventually understands them and herself. Fictional boyhood story of Governor Jonathan Worth of North Carolina. Ages 11-16. (G.S.D.)

Worthington, Dennison, 1843-1904. 885

The Broken Sword: A Pictorial Page in Reconstruction. Wilson: P. D. Gold and Sons, 1901. 326pp. A Reconstruction novel, most likely of Bertie County, told almost entirely through conversation in Negro dialect. Emphasis is on rebellion of plantation Negroes and the injustices of the Yankees. Pencil sketches by Wilson cartoonist, James Bempsey Bullock, illustrate the book. (N.G.)

Wright, Watkins Eppes. 686

Dear Editor. New York: Arcadia House, Inc., 1944. 256pp. Mark Randall, after war service, finds his former life as a New York columnist dull and returns to a small North Carolina town to assume editorship of the family newspaper. He and Aline Maynor, also formerly of New York, play important roles in local politics. (L.R.R.) CC

Doctor Joel. 687 New York: Arcadia House, 1945. 272pp.

Wounded young Dr. Joel Williams, returning from World War II, Wright

is faced with problems: whether to establish a fashionable practice on Park Avenue or take up general medicine; glamourous Andrea or home-town Susan; the city, or mountain-girt (fictitious) Arde- more, south of Asheville. Light romance. (R.W.) LC

Eveless Eden, by Allen Eppes, pseud. 688 New York: Gateway Books. 1940. 255pp. This light-weight romance tells of love affairs at the Gap, a mountain town near Asheville. Two bachelor cousins win their girls—the novelist of the pair gets pretty schoolteacher Eve Allgood. Mountain people are introduced only as background, and the dialect is not authentic. (R.W.) Dr Gs Ln Mg UNC Wm

Frontier Nurse. 689 New York: Arcadia House, Inc., 1943. 256pp. Jane Burton ends a vacation in Western North Carolina to act as substitute for an injured nurse. The needs of the mountain people and the charms of architect Cliff Rollins need only the challenge of a forest fire to convince her that New York and novelist Dick Armour are not for her. (L.R.R.) CC

Helen Comes Home. 690 New York: Arcadia House, 1943. 256pp. To war-time Lakeville, a coastal "town that smelled so beautifully of Cape Jasmine, magnolias, and longleaf pines," Helen Miller returns to work in a defense plant. There she must choose between the new foreman of the plant and an old suitor who once had jilted her at the church. (R.W.) LC

Home to the Hills. 691 New York: Arcadia House, 1944. 255pp. Sequel to Frontier Nurse. At Burtonville [the little lumber town of Druid, near Asheville] restless Jane Burton Rollins, her husband Cliff fighting in the Pacific, forsakes her mountain patients and goes to New York to help ex-suitor Dick Armour write about her Burton ancestors. Light romance of wartime marriage. (R.W.) LC Wright 169

Magic Spring, by Allen Eppes, pseud. 692 New York: Gramercy, 1940. 256pp. In Ardendale [Carthage?], a small eastern North Carolina lumber- company town, David Wiley and Polly Jenkins postpone marriage to care for dependent relatives. Ardendale's glamour girl and a dedicated young doctor, aided by David's nine-year-old cousin Peter, a polio victim, help them convert an abandoned hotel into a sani- torium. Light romance. (R.W.) LC

Meet the Prince, by Allen Eppes, pseud. 693 New York: William Godwin, 1934. 279pp. To her native Ardemore in the dewberry and peach region of the North Carolina sandhills, comes Claire D'Aragon with her son Prince Peter, heir to the Dalvarian throne. Instead of marrying one of the town's wealthy and willing daughters, he chooses a poor, sensible girl. Light, fluffy romance. (R.W.) UNC Wm

Southern Belle, by Allen Eppes, pseud. 694 New York: Gramercy, 1949. 254pp. In the pulp-mill town of Ardendale in the Blue Ridge, Nancy Con- verse must decide whether to remain at home or return to New York to pursue a model's career. She must decide, too, between her New York boss and the handsome pulp-mill executive. Light romance; mocking birds and magnolias. (R.W.) Al Ch Dr Mg Mr Sm Wl

Yates, Elizabeth, 1905- 695

Brave Interval. New York: Coward-McCann, 1952. 246pp. Five people from different parts of the country spend eight days together with a guide going by horse and camping at night on a trail expedition in the Great Smoky Mountains. The wilderness has its effect on each one, and all return to civilization entirely different people. (V.W.P.)

Young, Stanley Preston, 1906- 696

Young Hickory. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1940. 271pp. This story of the frontier boyhood and youth of Andrew Jackson Young presents his home life in "Waxhaw Valley," North Carolina. There are accounts of ventures into neighboring states, encounters with Indians and Redcoats, and the study of law. Jackson emerges as a courageous and strong character. (C.M.P.) INDEX

INDEX

Numbers refer to entries in the bibliography.

Aberdeen, 447 Asheville, 5, 9, 50, 54, 75, 82, 134, Acres of Beauty, 625 171, 247-249, 305, 306, 312, 323, 325, 367, 488, 595, 672-675, 680 Across the Cotton Patch, 117 Asheville Presbytery, 154 Adeline Desmond, 104 At the Big House, 129 Adventures of Tittletom, 118 At Top of Tobin, 454 Adventuring, 622 Ata-culla-culla, 439 After Innocence, 213 Auburn, 239 After Many Days, 588 Aunt Flora, 103 Against Human Nature, 488 Authors. See Writers Airplane Andy, 610 Author's manuscripts. See Manu- Airplane flight over N.C., 610 scripts Alamance, 662 Autumn on Breezy Hill, 376 Alamance, Battle of, 36, 164, 189, Avery County, 226, 227, 276 290; See also Regulators Awakening, The, 82 Alas Lucinda!, 19 Awards. See American Associa- Albemarle, 522 tion of University Women; Albemarle region, 181, 183 Mayflower Society Cup; Sir Alexander, McKnitt, 36 Walter Raleigh Award Alexandriana, 36 Azalea, The Story of a Girl in Alice in Blunderland, 130 the Blue Ridge Mountains, 470 All the Kingdoms of Earth, 443 Azalea garden, 67 Alumnae Miscellany, 224 Azalea's Silver Web, 471 American Association of Univer- sity Women Award for juvenile literature, 57, 74, 75, 657, 644 Baer's American Nights' Entertainments, Christmas, The, 377 223 Bakery, 641 Among the Pines, 206 Balloon ascension, 528 Angel, 261 Balsam Groves of the Grand- father Mountain, 169 Animal stories, 28, 55, 73-79, 87, 105, 118, 120, 121, 124, 126, 127, Bandon Plantation, 188 129, 137, 144, 190, 244, 278, 284, Banner Elk, 21 547, 572. See also 436, 453, 496, Baptist church, 20, 145, 242, 279, Dialect stories; Folk tales; 280 Wildlife Barbara's Vagaries, 587 Animal Tales from the Old North Barnwell, Col. John, 99 State, 105 Baseball, 318, 360, 620 Animals Talk to Gussie, The, 572 Basil the Page, 651a Annie Laurie and Azalea, 469 Basketball, 317 Apostate Physician, 197 Appalachian Mountains. See Bath, 183, 350, 613 Mountain region Battles. See names of battles Apple growing, 385 Be Ye Beggar or King, 373 Architect, 459, 689 Beal, Fred, 250 Art and artists, 22, 62, 165, 262, Beanie, 73 516, 641 Bears, 73 As By Fire, 375 Beaufort, 15, 211, 451, 622 Ashe County, 268 Beauty shop, 391 Asheboro, 468 Beavers, 649 174 Index

Beggars All, 64 Bonny Kate, 589 Behind the Great Smokies, 589 Book of My Lady, The, 534 Bellamy Case, The, 247 Boone, Daniel, 205, 295, 298, 444, 647 Belmont Abbey, 602 537, 645, Bootleggers. See Moonshiners Benjie's Hat, 273 Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge, 80 Bennett's Welcome, 181 Boy Spies with the Regulators, Bennie Ben Cree, 108 290 Bensboro Plantation, 112 Bragg, Fort, 232, 339, 427 Benson, 72 Brave Interval, 695 Bertha the Beauty, 653 Bread for the Hungry, 379 Bertie, or Life in the Old Field, Brevard Mission School, 611 584 Bricks Without Straw, 608 Bertie County, 151. 507, 584, 685 Bride of a Thousand Cedars, 307 Better Way, The, 577 Bride's Return, The, 279 Beulah Land, 146 Bright Leaf, 180 Beyond Desire, 7 Broken Bondage, A, 48 Big Cypress Buck, 284 Broken Sword, The, 685 Big End of the Horn, 72 Brown Mountain lights, 229, Boat, 478 9, Big-Enough 648 Foot, the Guide, 99 Big Brunswick County, 164 Laurel, 21 Big Bryson City, 620 Foundling Nag's Biiou: The of Buckskin Brigade, 299 Head. 549 Buncombe County, 152, 490 Biltmore House, 160 Bundle of Troubles, 255 Birthright, 514 Burke, Governor Thomas, 265 Bittern Point, 341 Burke County, 2 Bla~k Homer of Jimtown, The, 436 Burnside, General Ambrose E., 618, 651 Black Hood, The, 157 Burnsville, 627 Black Mountain, 149 Burr, Theodosia, 229, 486 Black Top, 378 By Reason of Strength, 282 Black Ulysses, 448-448 Blackbeard, 108, 179, 182, 235, 254, 451, 462, 487, 502, 536, 564, 613, also Pirates 667. See Cabin in the Pines, 459 Blackbeard's Treasure, 451 Caldwell, Joseph P., 258 Bladen County, 501 Caleb, My Son, 136 Blindness, 394, 419 Caleb's Luck, 29 ' The, 617 Blockade Runner, Call Home the Heart, 138 running, 307, 582, Blockade 191, Call It Freedom, 539 615, 643 Camden, 335 Blowing Rock, 155, 306, 349, 154, Camp. See Summer camp; names 541, 582 of military camps Blue laws, 540 Camping, 80, 695 Blue Ridge. See Mountain region Camp meetings, 574 Blue Ridge Billy, 314 Cane Creek, Battle of, 265 Blue Ridge Breezes, 523 Canoe trip down Lumber River, Boarding houses, 178, 324 646 Bogue sandbanks, 14 Cape Fear region, 43, 67, 101, 164, Bonnet, Stede, 462, 564, 667. See 182, 193, 218, 436, 498, 545, 546, also Pirates 554, 564, 664. See also Blockade Bonnie New World, 526a running Index 175

Cape Hatteras, 234, 357, 478, 644 Civil War, 6, 43, 49, 104, 108, 150, Captain's Bride, The, 259 173, 191, 192, 198, 233, 235, 259, Carl Werner, 535 260, 282, 288, 291, 302, 307, 363, 398, 428, 433, 475, 486, 545, 562, Carolina, 203 579, 609, 615, 618, 643, 653, 664, Carolina Corsair, 613 665, 678. See also Blockade run- Carolina first mentioned in fic- ning; Unionists tion, 204 Civil War, Union prisoners held Carolina Mountain Breezes, 173 by Confederates, 150, 579 Carolina Sketches, 575 Civil War veterans (Union), 607. See also Confederate veterans Carpetbaggers. See Reconstruc- Clansman, The, 158 tion Clark, Major Robert R., 229 Carrboro, 175 Cliffs of Fall, 640 Carteret County, 78, 311 Clinton, 476 Carthage, 692 Cloud Over Catawba, 142 Cary, Thomas, 183 Coal mining, 583 Cary's Rebellion, 183 Coast Guard life, 14, 357 Catawba County, 272 Coastal region, 15, 22, 35, 83, 84, Catawba Indians, 534 106, 108, 110, 203, 206, 211, 356, Catawba River, 293, 422, 597 486, 536, 585, 628, 644, 690. See Cats, 28, 74, 137 also Eastern North Carolina Cattle raising, 388 Cock fighting, 521, 547 Caxton's Book, 507 Cold Blue Moon, 446 Cedar Island, 15 Collection of Hearts, A, 264 Chain gang, 33, 220 College, attendance at, 4, 24, 56, Chapel Hill, 190, 216, 218, 234, 100, 102, 153, 198, 216, 383, 389, 429. See also names of indi- 458, 459, 506. See also Univer- vidual colleges sity of North Carolina College president, 2 Charlotte, 3, 8, 48, 132, 145, 157, 159, 162, 167, 232, 291, 293, 309, College professors, 31, 213, 506. 418, 447, 453, 539-542 See also Teachers Chatham County, 144, 265 Colonel's Dream, The, 90 Cherokee, 614 Colonial Apparition, A, 554 Cherokee Boy, 297 Colonists. See Roanoke Island; Settlers Cherokee County, 334 Come Snow fer Christmas, 25 "Cherokee Embassage, The," 535 Common Problem, The, 492 Cherokee Indians, 11, 26, 129, 146, 212, 278, 286, 295, 297, 332, 360, Communism, 7, 130, 138, 250, 330, 439, 496, 499, 535, 537, 538, 566, 457, 640 614 Complete Works of O. Henry, 494 Cheshire, Bishop Joseph Blount, Confederacy. See Civil War 100 Confederate Cabinet, 167 Child of Mary, A, 590 Confederate hospital, Raleigh, 302 Chilhowee Boys, 432 Confederate imprints, 259, 260 Chimney Rock, 407 Confederate prison, Salisbury, Chowan County, 188, 565 150, 579 Chowan River region, 181, 188 Confederate surgeon, 545 Christmas and Christmas stories, Confederate treasury, 167 25, 377, 467b, 531, 609 Confederate veterans, 90, 157, Circle's End, The, 16 546 Circuit rider, 551 Conjure Woman, The, 91 Circus, 125 Constitution, Federal, ratifica- City on the Hill, The, 540 tion of, 184 176 Index

Cooleemee Plantation, 604 Dead Reckoning, 638 Core Banks, 15 Dear Doctor Dick, 275 Cornwallis, Lord Charles, 143, Dear Editor, 686 308, 414, 417, 418, 420, 424, 426, Death on the Mountain, 452 605. See also Revolutionary War Defense plant, 690 Democratic convention, 576 Corona of the Nantahalas, 474 Depression Cotton planting, 168 (1930's), 364, 367, 372, 459, 517, 533, 625 Cotton Top, 455 Deserter's Daughter, The, 260 County home, 242 De Soto, Hernando, 360 Coverlets, 277, 567 Detective stories. See Mystery Cowan's Ford, 331 and detective stories Cracker barrel philosophy, 505 Devereux plantations, Bertie Cranberry iron mine, 170 County, 151 Craven County, 208 168, 192, Devil, 89, 229 Creek Indians, 129 Devil Must, The, 655 Croatan, 286 Devil's Tramping Ground, The, Croatan Indians, 13, 329, 646. See 229 also Roanoke Island Dialect stories, 81, 105, 117, 129, Cropsey, Nell, 229 152, 171, 196, 255, 257, 269, 301, Crossing, The, 98 324, 344, 436, 446, 480, 487, 547, Cudgel, The, 485 685. See also Folk tales; Moun- tain region; Mountain words Cumberland County, 220, 221 and expressions Cumberland The, 201 Rifles, Digby the Only Dog, 74 Curious Experience With the Dime novels, 287, 414-426, 664 Tombstone of a Pirate, 156 Diomed, 668 Currituck Sound, 210 Dismal Swamp, 12, 89, 108, 565, 678 Divorce, 594, 612 Dally, 489 Dobbs (now Wayne) County, Dan and Jack Find a Pal, 380 526a Dan River, 420, 608, 609 Dobson, 347 Dare, Eleanor, 39. See also Roa- Doctor for Barbara, A, 50 noke Island Doctor Happy, 381 Dare, Virginia, 246, 286, 354, 530, Doctor Joel, 687 561, 634. See also Roanoke Doctor, pioneering, 543 Island Doctors, 25, 47, 50, 177, 197, 209, Dark Heritage, 193 233, 240, 275, 394, 527, 543, 545, Dark Stranger, The, 163 546, 687, 692; doctor's appren- Darker Grows the Valley, 304 tice, 179. See also Hospitals Darlingtons, The, 468 Dog on the Sun, 218 Daughter of Bohemia, A, 591 Dogs, 73-79, 120, 210, 357, 547, 552, 650, 668 Daughter of the Blood, The, 246 Dolores, 511 Daughter of the Highlanders, A, 358 Don't Tread on Me, 292 Daughter of Virginia Dare, The, Double Man, The, 499 634 Dover Swamp, 260 Davidson, General William Lee, Down, Down the Mountain, 119 143 Down to Seven, 254a College, Davidson 153 Draftee, World War II, 232 Davie, William R., 418, 513 Drake, Sir Francis, 186, 351 Davie County, 604 Dred; A Tale of the Great Dis- Days of Daniel Boone, 444 mal Swamp, 565 Index 177

Driven from Home, 131 Fairs, 119, 496 Drivin' Woman, 95 Fairy Gold, 592 Dmvaht and Other North Caro- Fallen Angel, The, 482 lina Yarns, 547 Fanning, David, 265 Drowning Creek, 282 Fanning, Edmund. See Regulators Druid, 691 Farming, 57, 58, 117, 125. 239, Drummer Boy, The, 618 242, 303, 315, 388, 508, 531, 621. Drummond, Governor William, See also names of various 40 crops as cotton, peanuts, tobacco, etc. Drums, 41 Farmville, 431 Drums Beat in Old Carolina, 563 Favetteville. 90-92, 103, 163, 252, Duke, Benjamin N., 180 328, 358, 362, 416, 427, 464, 511, Duke, James B., 9, 95 573, 580 Duke Narrative and Verse, 33 Ferdinando, Simon, 39. See also Duke University, 4, 33, 463 Roanoke Island Dunn, 458 Fiddler's Fancy, 567 Durham, 180, 288, 463, 465 Finer Things of Life, The, 463 Fireside Musings of "Uncle" Ras- tus and "Aunt" Randy, 195 Eastern North Orol^q: 20. 22, First: 57-59. 108. 120. 122. 125 203. 208, Children's book by a North 240. 222. 259 260. 303, 355, 358, Carolinian. 352 366, 372, 425, 431a, 476, 484, Mention of Carolina in fiction, 508. 629. 692 Se° also Coital 204 region; Pirates; Plantation life; North Carolinians in fiction, 258 Settlers Novel by a native of North Eden, Governor Charles, 106 Carolina, 662 Ed^nton, 41, 156, 184, 185, 292, Novel by a Negro to be cri- 315, 341 tically acclaimed, 91 Edenton Tea Party, 185 Novel with a North Carolina setting, 495 Education. See College, attend- First, the Fields, 677 ance at; College professors; Schools and schooling; Teach- Fisher's River, 574 ers; names of individual col- Fishing and fishermen, 15, 22, leges 110, 210, 478, 574, 622, 626, 628, Educational reform, 458, 533 683 Elizabeth City, 12, 203, 487, 549 Five Little Martins, 626 Elizabethtown, 193, 497 Flames of the Blue Ridge, 165 Elon College, 275 Flaming Gahagans, The, 364 Entwined Lives of Miss Gahrielle Flat Rock, 135, 595

Austin . . . and . . . Redmond, Flesh of the Orchid, The, 503 the Outlaw, 128 Flight to the Hills, 54 Eoneguski, or The Cherokee Flop-Eared Hound, The, 120 Chief, 566 Florist shop, 403 Episcopal Church, 100, 450, 679 Folk tales, 11, 12, 26, 86, 88, 89, Eveless Eden, 688 91, 127, 277, 278, 436, 447, 461, Eye Witness, 651 466, 650 Eyes Unto the Hills, 382 Fool's Errand, A, 607 Eyrie, The, 486 Football, 316, 319, 570 For the Love of Lady Margaret, 666 Facing the Flag, 629 For the Major, 679 Fair Adventure, The, 215 Forest City, 379, 381, 391, 403 Fair Lady of Halifax, The, 484 Forest fire, 689 ;

178 Index

Forests and forestry, 96, 107 Gods and One, The, 225 Fort Bragg. See Bragg, Fort Golden Admiral, 351 Fort Macon. See Macon, Fort Golden Root, The, 556 "Fortunate Shipwreck, The," 204 Goldfish, 118 Four-H Clubs, 303 Goldsboro, 198, 252, 641

Fov hunting, 33, 45, 244, 429, 508, Golf and golfing, 9, 195, 539 589 Good Gumption, 280 Foxes, The, 244 Good Morning, Miss Dove, 464 Franklin (state), 98, 370, 544. Gothic romance, 17, 339, 347, 348 See also Tennessee Grpffenried, Baron Christoph de, Franklin (town), 4, 535 99 Free Forester, 107 Graham, Frank P., 657 French Broad River, 432, 587, 603 Graham, Joseph, 513 "Freshman bible," 198 Grandfather Mountain, 100, 169 Friends, Society of. See Quakers Grandfather Tales, 86 From Death to Morning, 670 Granville County, 444 From My Highest Hill, 139 Gray, Mabry ("Mustang"), 101 From Palms to Pines, 383 Gray Caps, 302 Frontier. See Franklin (state) Graylyn Mental Hospital, 515 Mountain region; North Caro- Great Smoky Mountains. 77, 78, lina-Tennessee border; Set- 124, 139, 140, 253, 261, 312, 368, tlers; Tennessee. 438, 461, 569. 695. See also Frontier Nurse, 689 Cherokee Indians; Mountain Fumbler, 526 region Fundamental Constitutions, 40 Green Arch, The, 639 Green Centuries, 212 Green Pond, 47 Gallant Mrs. Stonewall, 291 Greene, General Nathanael, 46, Gap o' the Mountains, 63 143, 164, 228, 417, 419-421, 424 Gardner-Webb College, 388 Greensboro, 12, 113, 133, 167. 274, 607-609, 633 Gastonia, 7, 8, 47, 130, 138, 250, 310, 349, 447, 458, 330, 631 Greenville, 8, 303 Gates County, 526a Grenville, Sir Richard, 186, 246, 616. See also Roanoke Island Gathering Storm, 457 , Gena of the Appalachians, 635 Gristmill, 190 Gentle Belle, A, 593 Guilford County, 174, 234, 265, 684 Gentle Insurrection, The, 30 273, 274, 444, 606, 662, 682, Guilford Court House, Battle of, Geologist, 29 143, 164, 228, 257, 308, 417, 419, printed in, 528 Germany, book 421, 497, 619, 662 Get Out of Town, 656 Gulf Stream North, 110 Ghost stories, 147, 156, 230, 255, Gunpowder factory, 563 436, 466, 554. See also Dialect stories; Folk tales Ghost Stories and Legends of the Mountains, 466 Haiglar, Chief, 534 Gibsonville, 447 Hakluyt, Richard, 186 Girdle of the Great, The, 166 Halifax County, 479 Girl in Checks, The, 135 Hallowe'en, 531 Girl of the Blue Ridge, A, 176 Hamlet, 656 Girl of the Listening Heart, 384 Hand in Tand Through the Happy Go With Him Twain, 385 Valley, 450 Goat That Went to School, The, Hangman's Handyman, The, 440 121 Hanover, 199 Index 179

Havvy Animals of Ata- go -hi, The, Ho^itals, 50, 197, 209, 302. See 278 also Doctors Hariot, Thomas, 186. See also Roa- Hot Springs, 61. See also Warm Springs noke Island House Behind the Cedars, The, Harnett, Cornelius, 497 92 Harnett County, 218, 220-222 House Divided, 665 Hat maker, 273 House for Leander, A, 552 Haunts of Drowning Creek, The, How Old Man Corn Held Posses- 646 sion, 480 in the Hawk Wind, 365 How Zach Came to College, 102 Haydocks' Testimony, The, 678 Howard McPhlinn, 152 Healing Hills, The, 386 Huguenot planter, 49; settler, 182 Heart the Blue Ridge, 12 of Humor. 44, 63. 87. 144. 170. 232, Heart's Haven, 111 280. 292a, 505. 521. 547, 574, 642, Hearthstones, 236 660. See also Dialect stories Heirs of St. Kilda, The, 429 Hum.ors of Falconbridge, The, Helen Comes Home, 690 292a Henderson, Richard, 205, 295 Hung for a Song, 462 Hendersonville, 306 Hunter, Theophilus, Jr., 18 Henry, O. See Porter, William Hunter's Horn, The, 508 Sidney Hunting, 73, 83, 210, 429, 574, 589, 668 Herbs and herb gathering, 556 Hurricane, 683 Here Comes the Showboat, 122 Hurry Home, to My Heart, 68 Hereford, 549a Husband, Herman, 189. See also Hertford County, 429 Regulators Hickory, 582 Hickory Limb, The, 271 Hidden Woman, The, 248 Hyde, Governor Edward, 183 Hiddenite, 582 I Take This Squaw, 32 Highland Annals, 140 Impassioned Foothills, 516 Highlands, 452 In a Dark Garden, 545 Highvockets, 620 In All Its Glory, 272 Hiking. See Mountain hiking In Buncombe County, 490 Hill Billies, The, 524 In Connection With the De Wil- Hill Doctor, 543 loughby Claim, 60 Hills Beyond, The, 671 In the Nantahalas, 611 Hills Step Lightly, The, 226 Indian legends, 11, 26, 129 Hillsboro, 164, 184, 189, 294, 420, Indian reservation, 26, 538 444, 645 Indians, 5, 11, 13, 26, 99, 115, 146, 205, 246, 271, 444, 484, 532. 534, Hirum Harum, 528 647. See also Catawba Indians; His Victory, 594 Cherokee Indians; Creek In- History of Rome F^nks, The, 475 dians; Croatan Indians Holdfast Gaines, 532 Inland waterway, 35 Holston River settlements, 559 Inner Voice, The, 501 Home to the Hills, 691 Interval in Carolina, 3 Homeward Trail, The, 13 Iola, 20 Horace Chase, 680 Iola Leroy, 233 Hornet's Nest, The, 513 Iredell County, 293 Horns of Capricorn, The, 366 Iron, 62, 170 Horse racing, 429, 589 Island Girl, 137 Horse-Shoe Robinson, 293 It Was Forever, 211 180 Index

Jack and the Three Sillies, 87 Kings Mountain, Battle of, 36, Jack Crews, 37 85, 188, 256, 257, 287, 293, 295, 300, 322, 331, 369, 544 Jack O'Doon, 22 Kinston, 259, 260, 303 Jack Tales, The, 88 Kit Brandon, 8 Jackson, Andrew, 292a, 321, 442, 696 Kitchin, Governor William W., 576 Jackson, Thomas J. ("Stone- Kittrell Springs, 651 wall"), and Mrs. Jackson, 291 Kitty Hawk, 356, 610 Jackson Mahaffey, 521 Knight, Tobias, 613 Jane Hope, 216 Korean War, 387; veteran, 658 Jane Lends a Hand, 641 Ku Klux Klan, 157-159, 162, 219, Janey Jeems, 237 281, 374, 607 Janey's Shoes, 123 Ku Klux Klan No. 40, 281 Jenifer, 586 Jews, 145, 323 John Dean's Journey, 336 Labor problems, 7, 130. 138, 141, John Eax and Mamelon, 608 283, 330, 365, 457, 533, 577, 631 John Rattling -Gourd of Big Cove, Laborers Together, 391 26 Lady of New Orleans, The, 582 John Vytal, 467 Lake, John, 379 Johnny and His Mule, 124 Lake Junaluska, 69 Johnson, Andrew, 345a, 440a Lake Toxaway, 602 Johnston County, 32, 72, 105 Land of the Sky, The, 595 Jolly J's stories, 387-389, 393, 396 Landscape of the Heart, 515 Jones, John Paul, 41, 292 Lane, Governor Ralph, 186, 616. Jones County, 208, 254a See also Roanoke Island Joscelyn Cheshire, 294 Last Cruise of the "Nightwatch," Journey Cake, 343 35 Joy Shop Stories, 390 Last Mammoth, The, 647 Jucklins, The, 504 Laughing Pioneer, The, 219 Julia Gwynn, 347 Lawson, John, 99 Junaluskie, The Cherokee (no Lawyers 160, 166, 306 copy known), 550 Leaf Against the Sky, The, 4 June Gold, 14 Leaves of Leisure, 467a June of the Hills, 69 Legends. See Folk tales; Indian Juny, 149 legends Just Plain Larnin', 533 Lejeune, Camp, 571 Lenoir, William, 450 Lenoir, 625 Lenoir County, 105 Kaolin, 586 Leonora, a Tale of the Great Kappy Oliver, 633 Smokies, 312 Kate Bonnet, 564 Leopard's Spots, The, 159 Weathers, Kate 628 Liberty Boys stories, 414-426 Katrine, 309 Life and Entertaining Adventures Kentuckians, The, 205 of Mr. Cleveland, 495 Kentucky, 54, 107, 205, 343, 645 Life, Confession and Execution of Kill 1, Kill 2, 9 the Jew and Jewess, 323 Kindred Spirits, 113 Life in the United States, 324 King of Scuffletown, The, 329 Lightly Lies the Earth, 623 Kingpin, The, 657 Lights Over Skeleton Ridge, 648 Kings Mountain, 253 Like a River Flowing, 428 Index 181

Lincoln County, 142 Macon, Fort, 622 Linville Falls, 169 McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, 374 Linville Mountain, 583 Mad Dan, the Spy of 1776, 322 Little Alma, 327 Madeline, 520 Little Benders, 301 Madison, 100 Little Brown Jug at Kildare, The, Madison County, 61, 207, 247 441 Magic Circle, The, 361 Little Carolina Blue Bonnet, 500 Magic Pen, The, 251 Little Jeems Henry, 125 Magic Pin, The, 190 Little Maid of Arcady, A, 596 Magic Spring, 692 Little Miss Capo, 200 Maid of the Mountains, A, 460 Little Pansy, 477 Mail packet, 554 Little Squire Jim, 348 Major Jones's Sketches of Travel, Locke, John, 40 581 Log Meeting-house and the Mc- Mama's Little Rascal, 437 Ilhanys, 174 Man Without a Friend, A, 132 Long Hunt, 42 Manse Dwellers, 326 Long March, The, 571 Manteo, 245 Look Homeward, Angel, 672 Manteo. See Roanoke Island Lords Proprietors, 40 Manuscripts, 28, 76, 100 (UNC), Lost Citadel, The, 354 136, 143, 186, 188, 190, 218-220, Lost Colony, 39 229, 239, 310, 464, 479, 605, 514, 636 Lost Colony. See Roanoke Island 515, 531, 567, 582, Marching On, 43 Lost Morning, 262 Marcy, the Blockade Runner, 191 Louisiana, 61 Marcy, the Refugee, 192 Love Comes Last, 367 Marines, 571 Love in the Mists, 676 Marion's Men, 214 Love Is a Wound, 252 Marrow of Tradition, The, 93 Lovell's Folly, 258 Mars Hill College, 402 Love's Tapestry, 517 Marthy Lou's Kiverlid, 277 Lowrie, Henry Berry, 329 Marty and Company on a Caro- Loyalists, 46, 187 lina Farm, 303 Lucky Mischief, 55 Mary Barker, 115 Lumber River, 13, 646 Masquerade, The, 362 Lumberton, 655 Master of Appleby, The, 331 Lusty Wind for Carolina, 182 Master of L'ttrange, The, 17 Lynching, 94 Master of the Red Buck and the Bay Doe, 265 Master of the World, The, 630 Mabel Gordon, 172 Matilda's Buttons, 274 Mabel, Lee, 597 Mayflower Society cup winner, Macdonald, Flora, 103, 148, 187, 239 217, 416, 497 Maynard, Robert, 106 McDowell, Joseph, 295, 30< Mayodan, 100 McDowell County, 637 Me an' Old Kate, 467b Mclntyre's farm, 513 Mecklenburg County, 142, 331, Mclver, Charles D., 458 513 Mclvor's Folly, 289 Mecklenburg Declaration, 36, 185 Maco Station, ghost of, 230 Medical school, 431 Macon, 4 Meet the Prince, 693 Macon County, 29 Meggy Macintosh, 217 ,

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Memo, to Timothy Sheldon, 541 Mount Mitchell, 595 Men of Albemarle, 183 Mount Olive, 68, 437 Mercy Forever, 392 Mountain Boy, 27

Methodist church, 2, 18, 174, 252, Mountain climbing, 169. See also 523, 548 Mountain hiking Michaux, Andre, 556 Mountain Girl, The, 177

Middle Button, The, 682 Mountain hiking, 9, 19, 80 Mill towns, 100, 457, 625. See also Mountain Mating, 461 Gastonia; problems; Labor Tex- Mountain region, Before 1800: 5, tile industry- 38, 85, 97, 107, 205, 212, 271, 287, Mill workers, 8, 30, 100, 141, 222, 322, 370, 439, 495, 499, 543, 544, 330. See also Labor problems; 551, 556, 557; 1800-1860: 42, Tetxile industry- 146, 170, 174, 296, 297, 332, 445, 1860-1870: Mines and mining, 29, 62, 170, 487, 543; 60, 123, 563, 583, 648 173, 207, 226, 302, 363, 428, 438, 679; 1870-1880: 61, 152, 454, Ministers, 100, 154, 279, 280, 282, 567, 595, 680; 1880-1900: 12, 17, 320, 326, 387, 468, 523, 548, 551, 37, 62, 81, 123, 135, 149, 154, 155, 679. See also Missionaries; 176, 227, 251, 370, 434, 449, 480, names of various Protestant de- 583; 1900-1910: nominations; Episcopal Church; 488, 25, 165, Roman Catholicism 177, 202, 225, 277, 435, 460, 470, 523; 1910-1930: 1, 16, 19, 21, 34, Mirrors of Bensboro The, 112 70, 80, 96, 261, 325, 492; 1930- Miscegenation, 92, 94, 161, 233, 1940: 119, 269, 371, 625: 1940- 242, 382, 582 1957: 73, 77, 114, 121, 147, 268, Miscellanea Aurea, 204 276, 306, 314, 621, 671, 689; Un- dated: 27-29, Miss Churchill, 598 63, 66, 86, 88, 139, 140, 234, 253, 466, 468. See also Mr. G. Strings Along, 660 Great Smoky Mountains; Nan- Mr. Hall and His Family, 548 tahala region; names of coun- Mr. Hugh MacWhirr Looks After ties and individual mountains; His $1.00 Investment, 44 North Carolina-Tennessee bor- Mr. Nosey, 267 der Mountain-V/hite Heroine, A, 207 Missionaries, 276 Mountain words and expressions, Mitchell, Elisha, 353 227. See also Dialect stories Mitchell County, 567 Move Over, Mountain, 175 Money Island, 270 Mule, 124 Monroe, 3 Murder Goes Rolling Along, 427 Moonflower, 56 Murder stories. See Mystery and Moonshine (by A. T. Abernathy) detective stories 1 Murphy, 324, 454 Moonshine (by J. F. Oertel), 449 Musgrove's Mill, Battle of, 300 Moonshiners, 1, 8, 12, 14, 80, 128, 149, 176, 261, 325, 386, 449, 481, Music and musicians, 69, 122, 226, 635, 676 309, 394, 512, 549a Moore County, 646, 649 Mustang Gray, 101 Moores Creek Bridge, Battle of, My "Budie" and I, 583 36, 187, 497, 526a, 580, 663 My Heart's In the Hills, 305 Moravians, 200, 456, 518, 519 My Southern Friends, 208 Morehead City, 211 Mysterious Rifleman, The, 605 Morgan, Colonel Daniel, 143, 419 Mystery and detective stories, 9, Morganton, 514, 630 17, 48, 54, 65, 66, 111, 147, 229, Morrisville, 500 247-249, 341, 345, 427, 440, 452, Motorcycle Chums in the Land of 481, 485, 503, 568, 623, 624, 638, the Sky, 325 646, 649, 655, 656, 658

Mound digging, 608 Mystery Ladys The, 83 Index 183

Nag's Head, 585 Ocracoke Island, 12, 74, 182, 254, 462, 613, 667 I Nag's Head, 486, 585, 663 in Nantahala region, 435, 474, 611 Oddities Southern Life and Character, 642 Naomi Wise, 116 Of Time and the River, 673 Nash County, 117 Old Fort, 595 Nashville, 191 Old Lim Jucklin, 505 Native Son Who Loses His Iden- the Boy, The, 525 tity, The, 529 Old Man and Negro authors. See Chesnutt, Old Moat Farm, The, 483 Charles Waddell; Fulton, David Old Pines and Other Stories, 45 Bryant; Harper, Frances Ellen On Golden Hinges, 612 Watkin^; McGirt, James Eph- On Guard! Against Tory and raim; Micheaux, Oscar Tarleton, 619 Negroes, 33, 45, 51, 55, 58. 90, 91- On Silver Creek Knob, 393 94. 136. 175, 195, 199, 222, 233, 237, 243, 249, 255, 258, 342, 344, On the Midnight Tide, 615 362, 443, 448, 531, 565, 606, 607, One and Twenty, 33 609, 685. See also Dialect stor- One Man Backfield, 316 ies; Folk tales; Miscegenation; One V/oman's Life, 637 Racial conflict One Word, and a Tear, 476 Neuse River region, 194, 629 Only a Factory Boy, 578 New Bern, 104, 109, 137, 168, 189, 192, 231, 260, 311, 660, 663 Onslow County, 284 Nem Confederate Short Stories, Optometrist, 381 288 Ordered Steps, 394 New Hanover County, 414 Orphans, 380, 393 Newspapermen and women, 4, Osteopathy, 209 44, "161, 275, 283, 520, 526, 529, Other Fires, 332 631, 655-657, 686 Ouaneetee, 5 Ney, Marshal, 229 Outer Banks, 79, 137, 357, 486, Nick Baba's Last Drink, 210 549, 628. See also Bogue sand- Nikwasi, 535 banks; Core Banks; Ocracoke Nina's Atonement, 599 Island; Salter Path; Shackle- Nitchey Tilley, 253 ford Banks North Carolina Federation of Outlaws, thieves, and counter- Women's Clubs, 313 feiters, 37, 128 North Carolina in the Short Over-Mountain Boy, 557 Story, 636 North Carolina Sketches, 81 North Carolina-Tennessee bor- Pamlico Sound, 12 der, 38, 201, 304, 439, 504, 560. Papermaking, 311. See also Pulp See also Settlers, Western N. C. mills North Carolinians, first, in prose fiction, 258 Parakeet Peter, 553 Northampton County, 58, 237, 241 Pasquotank River, 122, 486 Novelists. See Writers Passing Clouds, The, 431 Novellettes of a Traveller, 445 Patriot in the Saddle, 442 Number Thirty -Six, 283 Patterson, 178 Nun, 24 Pauline, 510 Nurses, 50, 233, 580, 689, 691. See Peach growing, 509 also Doctors; Hospitals Peanut, 75 Peanut Butter Mascot, 453 Peanuts, 59, 315, 453 Oblivion: an Episode, 334 Peanuts for Billy Ben, 315 Oconoluftee, 496, 614 Peddler, 567 184 Index

Pender County, 194, 510 Prophet of the Great Smoky Penny Rose, 57 Mountains, 438 Person County, 632 Proprietors of Carolina. See Lords Proprietors Phantom Fortress, 308 Prostitutes, 615 Phantom of the Foul Lines, 317 Proud Retreat, The, Physicians. See Doctors 167 Provincial Assemblies, 185 Picture books, 71, 531, 572 Psychiatry, 481, 515 Piece of Luck, A, 465 Psychoanalysis, 515 Piedmont region, 16, 30, 134, 141, 143, 219, 228, 262, 293, 331, 342, Pulp mills, 365, 371, 694. See also 344, 364, 588, 589, 591, 598 Papermaking Pig-o-Wee, 126 Purslane, 239 Pike, The, 268 Pilot Mountain, 547

Pine Ridge Plantation, 168 Quakers, 6, 189, 273, 274, 501, 678, Pinehurst, 346, 427 684 Pioneers. See Settlers Qualla Indian Reservation, 26 Pirate Brig, 667 Queen's Gift, 184 Pirate Island, 350 Question of Honor, A, 600 Pirate Quest, 179 Pirate Tales from the Law, 235 Pirates, 52, 84, 106, 156, 179, 182, Rabbit, 144 235, 270, 341, 350, 462, 564. See Race riot, Wilmington, 93, 199 also Blackbeard; Bonnet, Stede Racial conflict, 93, 136, 161, 199, Plantation, The, 479 514, 565 Plantation life, 32, 95, 112, 120, Radio broadcasting, 394, 410 244, 142, 151, 164, 166, 188, 243, Raeford, 427 429, 446, 479, 508, 584, 589, 597, 598, 653 Ragged Ones, The, 143 Plantation Sketches, 151 Raiders of Beaver Lake, The, 649 Pleasure Piece, 269 Railroads, 34, 45, 581 Rain on the Plow and Scalpel, 209 Just, 430 Plumes, 555 Rainbow at Dusk, 328 Poet, 264 Rainbow Round My Shoulder, 447 Raleigh, Sir Walter, 186, 482. Politics, 247, 657 53, See also Roanoke Island Pollock, Thomas, 183 Raleigh, 18, 136, 159, 161, 209, Polly of the Pines, 580 302, 441, 458, 463, 465, 482, 512, Ponies, 74, 78, 137 680 Porter, William Sidney, 493 Raleigh's Eden 185 Portulaca, 238 Ralph Fabian's Mistakes, 153 Possumist, The, and Other Stories, Randolph County, 115, 116, 274 196 Ransom, General Matthew W., Potters, 527 241 Precious stones, 29, 165 Ratification of Federal Constitu- Presbyterian church, 154, 326, 662 tion, 184 Prize winners. See Awards Real estate agent, 264 Prodigal Judge, The, 296 Rebel Siege, 300 Professors. See College professors Reconstruction, 23, 157-159, 161, Prohibition and prohibition era, 162, 173, 178, 272, 281, 344, 458, 14, 34, 540. See also Moonshin- 546, 607, 685 ers Red Belts, 473

Proletarian novels, 7, 138, 141, Red-Bridge Neighborhood, The, 160, 330, 457, 526 491 Index 185

Red Lady, The, 65 Rowena's Happy Summer, 512 Red Swan's Neck, The, 363 Roxboro, 677 Reflections in a Golden Eye, 339 Royal Gentleman, A, 609 Regulators, 36, 189, 212, 290, 444 Royal Southern Family, A, 2 Reid, Christian. See Tiernan, Rumrunners, 14 Frances Fisher Rurality: Original Desultory Religious controversy, 4, 20, 142 Tales, 573 Religious practices, primitive, 575 Russia, book printed in, 457 Remembrance Way, 508 Rutherford, General Griffith, 295 Reuben Delton, Preacher, 154 Rutherford College, 2 Revolutionary War, 36, 41, 46, 85, Rutherford County, 102, 293, 433. 98, 107, 137, 143, 164, 185, 187, See also books by Bertha B. 188, 214, 228, 256, 257, 287, 292, Moore, 375-413 294, 295 (from British view- Rutherfordton, 375 point), 308, 322, 33i, 335, 369, 370, 414-426, 484, 497, 513, 557, 605, 662, 663. See aUo Guilford Court House; Kings Mountain; Sacred Heart Academy, 24 Moores Creek Bridge Sage Quarter, 240 Revolutionary War, maps, 143 Sail the Dark Tide, 582 Reynolds family, 661 Salem, 200, 528. See also Mora- Ridgecrest, 407 vians; Winston-Salem River Treasure, 58 Salem Academy, 200 Road construction, 378 Salisbury, 150, 167, 251, 321, 335, Road to Carolina, The, 6 338, 532, 551, 579, 592, 600-602, 696 Roanoke Hundred, 186 Salisbury Prison. See Confeder- Roanoke Island and colonists, 39, ate Prison, Salisbury 71, 186, 229. 246. 286, 299, 333, Salt 351, 354, 467, 483, 561, 616, 634, and Pepper, 76 651a, 666; descendant, 311. See Salter Path, 622 also Dare, Virginia Saltpeter mine, 563 Roanoke Island (Civil War), 192, Saluda, 48 618 Salute to Adventure, 52 Roanoke: or, Where Is Utopia?, Salvation on a String, 220 663 Samanthy Billins of Hangin'-Dog, Roanoke Renegade, 616 171 Roanoke River and region, 58, Samarcand, 509 653 151, 241, 425, Sampson County, 362 Roberta E. Lee, 144 Sand In My Shoes, 509 Robeson County, 329, 374 Sandhills region, 33, 289, 427, Rock of Decision, 395 509, 693 Rock Was Free, The, 434 Schools and schooling, 27, 28, 55, Rockingham County, 578 114, 155, 166, 172, 173, 176, 200, Rodman the Keeper, 681 215, 390, 464, 507, 533, 549a. See also College, attendance at; Rogue's Holiday, 106 names of individual schools; Rogue's March, 85 Teachers Rogue's Moon, The, 84 Scotch Hall, Bertie County, 584 Catholicism, Roman 24, 548, 590, Scotland County, 282, 650 592, 594, 602, 604, 683 Scotswoman, The, 187 Carolina, Rombert: a Tale of 518 Scott Burton in the Blue Ridge, Rookie Southpaw, 318 96 Root Evil, The, 160 of Scottish settlers, 148, 163, 187, Roslyn's Fortune, 601 217, 358, 497, 526a, 527, 580. Ross, John, 614 See also Macdonald, Flora 186 Index

Scouts and scouting, 80, 649 Slavery, 18, 49, 151, 233. 433, 501, Sea Change, 683 565; in Western N. C, 207. See also Sea Snake, The, 356 Negroes Dies Seaboard (town), 238 Slow the Thunder, 369 Smith, Willis, Sea-Gift, 198 657 Smithfield, 72 Seashore, 477, 585, 683. See also Smoked Glass, Coastal region; Nags Head; 440a Mountains. Wrightsville Beach Smoky See Great Smoky Mountains Second Awakening, 114 Snifty, 496 Secret Bequest, The, 602 Social worker, 361 Secret Shot, The, 287 So Fair, So Evil, 658 See Here, Private Hargrove, 232 Son of the Valley, 621 Settlers, Eastern N. C, 181, 182, Sorghum making, 433 187, 299. See also Roanoke Sound of Chariots, The, 370 Island; Scottish settlers Sounding Brass, The. 310 Settlers, Western N. C, 205, 212, South Mountain Institute, 379, 299, 304, 432, 439, 544. See also 380, 382 Kentucky; North Carolina-Ten- Southern Belle, 694 nessee border; Tennessee Southern Cousin, The, 652 Sevier, John, 370, 473 98, Southern Pines, 65, 358, 481, 527 Shackleford Banks, 78 Southerner, The, 458 Shadow of Hampton Mead, 627 Southport, 252, 525, 554 Shadow of the Potrock, 435 Southward Ho!, 536 Shadows Slant North, 34 Spanish-American War, 434 Sharecroppers, 221, 241 Spindale, 375 Sharon, 368 Splendor of Eagles, 371 Shelby, Isaac, 295, 300 Spring Hill (Wake County), 18 Shelby, 159, 385 Spring on Breezy Hill, 397 Ships and sailing, 35. See also Spy, Yankee, 545 Blackbeard; Blockade running; Stage travel, Pirates 595 Statesville, 31, 150, 280 Short stories, 30, 33, 45, 51, 62, 67, 81, 94, 105, 127, 129, 139, 140, Still Water, 66 151, 170, 196, 210, 218, 220, 222- Stock market crash (1929). See 224, 229, 230, 234, 235, 255, 263, Depression 264, 285, 288, 299, 301, 313, 342, Stokes County, 100, 547 345, 353, 374, 431, 463, 465, 467a, Stone Came Rolling, A, 141 482, 486, 494, 507, 534, 535, 536, 573, 599, 632, 636, 654, 670. See Stone in the Rain, The, 340 also Dialect stories; Folk tales; Stories and Poems from the Old Indian legends North State, 313 Silent Scot, Frontier Scout, 544 Stories from an Indian Cave, 11 Siler City, 213 Stories of the South, 263 Silver Creek's Camp Jolly, 396 Storm Before Daybreak, 542 Simon Kenton, 645 Storm Center, 345a Simpson, Anne K., case, 511 Story of Jack Ballister's For- Sincerely, Willis Wayde, 346 tunes, The, 502 Sins of the Father, The, 161 Story of Marthy, The, 155 Sir Walter Raleigh, 53 Story of Old Fort Loudon, The, Sir Walter Raleigh Award, 31, 439 184, 463-465, 479 Story of Six Loves, A, 285 Skull Mountain, 147 Story of the Lost Colony of Roa- Skyland, 428 noke, The, 71 Index 187

Strange Stories of Carolina, 345 Teeny and the Tall Man, 355 Stranger's Stratagem, The, 654 Television, 413 Strength of the Hills, 398 "Tell Me a Story/' 519 Strike!, 631 Tennessee, 38, 42, 149, 201, 271, Strikes. See Labor problems 304, 473, 559. See also Franklin (state) ; North Carolina-Ten- The, 576 Struggle, nessee border John, 439 Stuart, Tennessee Outpost, 38 Stubborn Heart, The, 546 Tennessee Valley Authority, 304, Studies in Black and White, 49 621 356 Submarine, Textile industry, 7, 8, 10, 138, 141, Summer camp, 305, 306, 396, 407, 457, 526, 577 631 506 Thanksgiving, 531 Summer Gold, 306 Then and Now; or Hope's First Summer Idyl, A, 603 School, 194 Summer on Breezy Hill, 399 Then and Now, Reminiscences Sumter, General Thomas, 415, and Historical Romance, 433 422, 423 There Is a Season, 109 Surfman, 357 Thermal belt, 9 Surgeons. See Doctors These Are My People, 527 Surly Tim, 62 These, My People, 400 Surry County, 348, 574, 575 They Could Not Sleep, 67 Survival, 70 They Don't Dance Much, 522 Swain, David, 13 They Loved to Laugh, 684 Swain County, 26 This Body the Earth, 221 Swamp reclamation, 311 Thomas, William Holland, 614 Swannanoa, 311 Thomasville, 10, 283 Swannanoa River, 17 Those American R's, 23 Sweet Beulah Land, 241 Three Bears, The, 401 Sweet Old Days in Dixie, The, Thursday April, 227 344 Thyatira, 336 Tiernan, Frances Fisher, 251 Time Is Noon, The, 250 Taffy of Torpedo Junction, 644 To Make My Bread, 330 Tall Grey Gates, 579 To These Also, 402 Tall Houses in Winter, 31 Tobacco Auction Murders, 624 Tall Tales from Old Smoky, 353 Tobacco farming and industry, Tall Tales from the High Hills, 95, 180, 193, 262, 547, 624, 677 127 Tobe, 531 Tangled Threads, 133 Toe River Valley, 276 Tarboro, 112, 623 Toil of the Brave, 188 Tar-Heel Baron, A, 472 Tom Benn and Blackbeard, 254 Tar Heel Ghosts, 230 Tomahawks and Trouble, 558 Tar Heel Tales, 51 Toppy and the Circuit Rider, 551 Tarleton, General Banastre, 419, Topsail Inlet, 84, 564, 613 425, 619 Torpedoes, 320 Taw Jameson, 349 Tory Oath, 497 Teach, Edward. See Blackbeard Touch of Polly Tucker, The, 403 Teachers, 194, 201, 233, 24, 28, 29, Tough Enough stories, 77-79 266, 382, 464, 504, 510, 523, 547, Lake, 602 549, 549a, 662, 688. See also Col- Toxaway, lege professors; Schools and Train journey through N. C, 581; schooling wreck, 596 Tears Are for Angels, 659 Traitor, The, 162 188 Index

Traitor and Loyalist, 643 Wadesboro, 521 Transylvania Company, 205 Wake County, 105, 220, 221, 239, Transylvania County, 29, 603 242, 443 Travel, early, 146, 297, 343, 498, Wake Forest College, 317, 319, 555 581 559, Wallannah, a Colonial Romance, treasure-hunters, Treasure and 231 683. 58, 83, 270, 638, 646, 667, Walnut Cove, 100 See also Pirates Wanchese. See Roanoke Island Trent River, 352 War of 1812, 532, 566 Trenton, 254a War Trails of the Blue Ridge, 170 stories, 404-413 Triplets Ward, Nancy, 614 Triumphs Ephraim, The, 342 of Wargrave Trust, The, 604 Trouble at Pinelands, The, 481 Warm Bodies, 431a True, and Other Stories, 311 Warm Springs, 595. See also Hot True Blue, 664 Springs True Love for Jenny, 59 Warrenton, 482 True to the Old Flag, 257 Warsaw, 476 Truth Crushed to Earth, 134 Was It Worth While?, 24 Tryon, Governor William, 97, 189, Watauga County, 155, 268 231, 290, 563. See also Regula- Watauga River, 271 tors; Tryon's Palace Watauga settlement, 256, 295, 558 Tryon, 639 Waxhaws, 335, 696 Tryon's Palace, 185, 189 Wayne County, 526a Tsali, 614 332, Waynesville, 524 Turpentine forests, 206 Weathercock, 164 Tuscarora Indian War, 99, 183 Weaverville, 392 Twist of Yarn, A, 568 Web and the Rock, The, 674 Tyrrell County, 189 Webster, 676 Wedding, 431a Weddirt Trimmin's, 243 Uncle Sam, 202 Weldon, 581 Under Brazilian Skies, 487 Wendell, 624 Under Golden Skies, 456 West Goes the Road, 498 Under Greene's Banner, 228 West Point Wins, 570 Unionists, 191, 192, 260, 433, 617, Western N. C. See Mountain region; Settlers 651, 664 Unions. See Labor problems Western N. C, later Tennessee. See Tennessee University of North Carolina, When Blades Are Out and Love's 100, 174, 198, 213, 258, 337, 429, Afield, 46 475, 672. See also Chapel Hill; When Men Grew Tall, 321 Woman's College, U.N.C. When the Cock Crows, 15 Unknown Patriot, An, 97 When the Gates Lift Up Their Unknown Volunteer, The, 338 Heads, 178 Where the Redbird Flies, 234 Where the Weak Grow Strong, 10 Vernal Dune, 18 Where's Teresa?, 359 Victory Pass, 319 Whisper My Name, 145 Village Chronicle, 337 Whispering River, 372 Virginia Dare, 530 White, John, 71, 186, 616, 666. See Virginia Dare, Mystery Girl, 561 also Roanoke Island Index 189

White Rose of Stuart, The, 148 Woman's College, U.N.C., 224 White supremacy, 159, 161 Won in Warfare, 295 Whiteville, 206, 651 Wonderful Way, The, 100 Wicked John and the Devil, 89 Wootten, Bayard, photographs by, Wide Fields, 222 139 Wife of His Youth, The, 94 World War I, 21, 34, 123, 338, 448, Wiggins, Ella May, 330 492, 524, 529; Veterans, 555

Wigwam and the Cabin, The, 537 World War II, 3, 68, 193, 232, 236, Wild Cherry Tree Road, 242 328, 356, 400, 411, 524, 529, 640, Wild Dogs of Drowning Creek, 664, 660, 690, 691; Veterans, 650 656, 687 Wilderness Brigade, The, 150 Worth, Governor Jonathan, 684 Wilderness Journey, 559 Worth Dale, 266 Wildlife, 284. See also Animal Wounds of a Friend, The, 333 stories; Dialect stories; Folk Wreath from the Woods of Caro- tales lina, 352 Wiley Buck, 632 "Wreckers" on Outer Banks, 628 Wilkes County, 430 Wright brothers, 610 Will West, 360 Wrightsville Beach, 198, 529, 683 Williamston, 653 Writers, 251, 341, 367, 384, 493, Wilmington, 93, 164, 199, 217, 257, 270, 302, 307, 340, 417, 506, 548, 603, 688. See also Newspaper- men; Poet 554, 562 , 573, 581, 605, 615, 638, 643, 651, 663. See also Race riot, Written on the Wind, 661 Wilmington Wilson, 447 Wilson County, 105 Wind in the Forest, 189 Yadkin County, 475 Wind of Destiny, 493 Yadkin River, 13, 234, 293, 298, Wings on My Feet, 448 521 Winning Clue, The, 249 Yadkin Valley, 336, 343 Winston-Salem, 361, 456, 533, Yaller-Eye, 28 661. See also Moravians; Salem ville, 281 Winter Danger, 560 Yancey Yellow fever, 548 Wit. See Humor Yesterday's Rain, 276 Witch of Jamestown, 40 Yonaguska, 566, 614 Witches and witchcraft, 255, 428, 436, 648, 655 You Can't Go Home Again, 675 With Daniel Boone on the Caro- Young Hickory, 696 liny Trail, 298 Younger Brother, 538