# The despot of Broomsedge Cove Author: Craddock, Charles Egbert, 1850-1922 Genre: Category: Novels Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76287 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+despot+of+Broomsedge+Cove+Craddock&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary On a certain steep and savage slope of the Great Smoky Mountains, the primeval wilderness for many miles is unbroken save by one meagre clearing. The presence of humanity upon the earth is further attested only by a log cabin, high on the rugged slant. At night the stars seem hardly more aloof than the valley below. By day the mountains assert their solemn vicinage, an austere company. The clouds that silently commune with the great peaks, the sinister and scathing deeds of the lightnings, the passionate rhetoric of the thunders, the triumphal pageantry of the sunset-tides, and the wistful yearnings of the dawn aspiring to the day,—these might seem the only incidents of this lonely and ex... ## Chapters - [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/14/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/31/index.md) - [Part 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/29/index.md) - [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/18/index.md) - [Part 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/33/index.md) - [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/21/index.md) - [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/10/index.md) - [Part 39](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/39/index.md) - [Part 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/27/index.md) - [Part 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/32/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/17/index.md) - [Part 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/23/index.md) - [Part 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/25/index.md) - [Part 38](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/38/index.md) - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/6/index.md) - [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/12/index.md) - [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/13/index.md) - [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/7/index.md) - [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/11/index.md) - [Part 34](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/34/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/15/index.md) - [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/16/index.md) - [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/9/index.md) - [Part 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/22/index.md) - [Part 36](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/36/index.md) - [Part 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/26/index.md) - [Part 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/28/index.md) - [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/19/index.md) - [Part 35](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/35/index.md) - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/20/index.md) - [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/8/index.md) - [Part 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/24/index.md) - [Part 37](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/37/index.md) - [Part 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/30/index.md) - [Part 40](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/40/index.md) - [Part 41](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-despot-of-broomsedge-cove-76287/chapters/41/index.md)