Category: Novels
When we speak of birth-marks our mind first pictures a physical impression, probably some bodily characteristic transmitted from an ancestor; though mental habit or mind trait of ancestry is transmitted with more consistent regularity than mere physical resemblance.
When we speak of birth-marks our mind first pictures a physical impression, probably some bodily characteristic transmitted from an ancestor; though mental habit or mind trait o...
2. CHAPTER II.--Emigrants.Their ship, a large, slow trader, plying between English and Scottish ports and Norfolk, Virginia, sailed from Greenock on the twenty-seventh day of August. She belonged to the...
3. CHAPTER III.--The Settlement.It was a community of some twenty farms, grouped for protection and company in such a way that four farm houses occupied each hill top near the central intersection of their res...
4. CHAPTER IV.--John Calvin Campbell and Dorothy Fairfax.John Calvin Campbell was a beautiful child, with strangely clear, deep blue eyes, close clinging golden curls, a complexion fair to paleness, though tinted to a delicate ruddine...
5. CHAPTER V.--An Unbidden Guest.Beginning with the abduction of the children, the whole Virginia frontier was subjected to Indian raids. While the majority of the settlers attributed the uprising to Governor D...
6. CHAPTER VI.--The Children.Logan had brought the two captive children directly to Shauane-Town. As they were too young to effect their escape, they were allowed to wander at will in and around the village...
7. CHAPTER VII.--Diamond Cut Diamond.The purpose of the easy going settler of Virginia in coming to America was not to find religious freedom, but to better his financial condition. He parted from old England with...
8. CHAPTER VIII.--The Awakening of Virginia.The result of the French-Indian war destroyed the chance of France to dominate America; and gave birth to a new issue; whether America should be a British Colony or an independe...
9. CHAPTER IX.--Chronicles.The Committee of Safety in September, 1775, promoted Captain Archibald Campbell. He was commissioned Colonel of the Minute Men of Botetourt and Fincastle counties. From the date...
10. CHAPTER X.--The End and After the War.To Donald McDonald and his friends, the most important pending legislation involved the old religious contentions, this time waged by Dissenters, who, finding themselves in the...
11. CHAPTER XI.--The Kentucky Spirit or Why the Kentucky Colonel.Orange County, Virginia, was formed by Colonial act in 1734; and its boundary was: "to the uttermost limits of Virginia." The limits of Virginia were; "westward to the Mississip...
12. CHAPTER XII.--Raise Us Up, Oh Lord.The work of tending the corn fell to John and a single servant. As it was done with a bull-tongue plow and with hoes it was no easy job; but it was well done, as its green thrif...
13. CHAPTER XIII.--The Tempter Speaks.John Brown, a member of congress from the Kentucky District of the Commonwealth of Virginia, by letters notified Judges McDowell and Muter, that Don Gardoqui, the Spanish minist...
14. CHAPTER XIV.--The Conspirator.General Wilkinson made his first trip to New Orleans with a cargo of tobacco, flour, hides and bacon in June, 1787. It was seized by the authorities; but after an interview with...
15. CHAPTER XV.--Dorothy Again a Prisoner.John, after eight months' absence, was home again. The quiet of the valley was profound and satisfying. Though he brought back in money less than he had taken away, he had store...
16. CHAPTER XVI.--A Wedding.Reverend David Rice, known to everyone as "Father Rice," was a graduate of Princeton, the first ordained Presbyterian minister of Kentucky, and a firm believer and practitioner...
17. CHAPTER XVII.--David Clark.Fortune when she deserted Wilkinson politically, deserted him financially. The river trade partnership with Major Dunn proved a failure and was dissolved, leaving Wilkinson heav...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.--State Rights.In Virginia they fought for religious freedom and social liberty; in Kentucky William McKendrie, Father Rice and such men fought to preserve Kentucky to the Union and to embody...
19. CHAPTER XIX.--The Great Awakening.The first decade succeeding the Revolution was marked by a serious demoralization which found expression in an increase of vice and crime; and as never a crime wave sweeps state...
20. CHAPTER XX.--Another Conspiracy.On Saturday, March 2, 1805, at the close of the administration, Vice-President Burr took formal leave of the United States Senate. The Washington Federalist referring to his far...
21. CHAPTER XXI.--Controversies and Peace.Calvin Campbell, ordained in 1790, slowly rose to first place among all the preachers of Kentucky. His popularity was deserved. He was not only a great preacher, but a scholar,...