# In the Tennessee mountains Author: Craddock, Charles Egbert, 1850-1922 Genre: Category: Novels Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74759 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=In+the+Tennessee+mountains+Craddock&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary High above Lost Creek Valley towers a wilderness of pine. So dense is this growth that it masks the mountain whence it springs. Even when the Cumberland spurs, to the east, are gaunt and bare in the wintry wind, their deciduous forests denuded, their crags unveiled and grimly beetling, Pine Mountain remains a sombre, changeless mystery; its clifty heights are hidden, its chasms and abysses lurk unseen. Whether the skies are blue, or gray, the dark, austere line of its summit limits the horizon. It stands against the west like a barrier. It seemed to Cynthia Ware that nothing which went beyond this barrier ever came back again. One by one the days passed over it, and in splendid apotheosis... ## Chapters - [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/in-the-tennessee-mountains-74759/chapters/16/index.md) - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/in-the-tennessee-mountains-74759/chapters/6/index.md) - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/in-the-tennessee-mountains-74759/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/in-the-tennessee-mountains-74759/chapters/9/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/in-the-tennessee-mountains-74759/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/in-the-tennessee-mountains-74759/chapters/12/index.md) - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/in-the-tennessee-mountains-74759/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/in-the-tennessee-mountains-74759/chapters/7/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/in-the-tennessee-mountains-74759/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/in-the-tennessee-mountains-74759/chapters/8/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/in-the-tennessee-mountains-74759/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/in-the-tennessee-mountains-74759/chapters/10/index.md) - [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/in-the-tennessee-mountains-74759/chapters/11/index.md) - [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/in-the-tennessee-mountains-74759/chapters/13/index.md) - [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/in-the-tennessee-mountains-74759/chapters/15/index.md) - [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/in-the-tennessee-mountains-74759/chapters/17/index.md) - [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/in-the-tennessee-mountains-74759/chapters/14/index.md) - [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/in-the-tennessee-mountains-74759/chapters/18/index.md)