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    The Last Stetson
    The Last Stetson
    The Last Stetson
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    The Last Stetson

    By John Fox, Jr.

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    Classic western. According to Wikipedia: "Born in Stony Point, Kentucky to John William Fox, Sr., and Minerva Worth Carr, Fox studied English at Harvard University. He graduated in 1883 before becoming a reporter in New York City. After working for both New York Times and the New York Sun, he published a successful serialization of his first novel, A Mountain Europa, in Century magazine in 1892. Two moderately successful short story collections followed, as well as his first conventional novel, The Kentuckians in 1898. Fox gained a following as a war correspondent, working for Harper's Weekly in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898, where he served with the "Rough Riders." Six years later he traveled to Asia to report on the Russo-Japanese War for Scribner's magazine. Though he occasionally wrote for periodicals, after 1904, Fox dedicated much of his attention to fiction. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (published in 1903) and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (published in 1908) are arguably his most well known and successful works, entering the New York Times top ten list of bestselling novels for 1903, 1904, 1908, and 1909 respectively. Many of his works reflected the naturalist style, his childhood in Kentucky's Bluegrass region, and his life among the coal miners of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Many of his novels were historical romances or period dramas set in that region."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455430116
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      The Last Stetson - John Fox, Jr.

      THE LAST STETSON BY JOHN FOX JR.

      published by Samizdat Express, Orange, CT, USA

      established in 1974, offering over 14,000 books

      Westerns by John Fox, Jr.:

      Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories

      Crittenden

      Cumberland Vendetta

      The Heart of the Hills

      Hell fer Sartain and Other Stories

      In Happy Valley

      A Knight of the Cumberland

      The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

      A Mountain Europa

      The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

      feedback welcome: info@samizdat.com

      visit us at samizdat.com

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      A MIDSUMMER freshet was running over old Gabe Bunch's water-wheel into the Cumberland.  Inside the mill Steve Marcum lay in one dark corner with a slouched hat over his face.  The boy Isom was emptying a sack of corn into the hopper.  Old Gabe was speaking his mind.

      Always the miller had been a man of peace; and there was one time when he thought the old Stetson-Lewallen feud was done.  That was when Rome Stetson, the last but one of his name, and Jasper Lewallen, the last but one of his, put their guns down and fought with bare fists on a high ledge above old Gabe's mill one morning at daybreak.  The man who was beaten was to leave the mountains; the other was to stay at home and have peace.  Steve Marcum, a Stetson, heard the sworn terms and saw the fight.  Jasper was fairly whipped; and when Rome let him up he proved treacherous and ran for his gun.  Rome ran too, but stumbled and fell.  Jasper whirled with his Winchester and was about to kill Rome where he lay, when a bullet came from somewhere and dropped him back to the ledge again.  Both Steve Marcum and Rome Stetson said they had not fired the shot; neither would say who had.  Some thought one man was lying, some thought the other was, and Jasper's death lay between the two.  State troops came then, under the Governor 's order, from the Blue Grass, and Rome had to drift down the river one night in old Gabe's canoe and on Out of the mountains for good.  Martha Lewallen, who, though Jasper's sister, and the last of the name, loved and believed Rome, went with him.  Marcums and Braytons who had taken sides in the fight hid in the bushes around Hazlan, or climbed over into Virginia.  A railroad started up the Cumberland.  "Furriners  came in to buy wild lands and get out timber. Civilization began to press over the mountains and down on Hazlan, as it had pressed in on Breathitt, the seat of another feud, in another county.  In Breathitt the feud was long past, and with good reason old Gabe thought that it was done in Hazlan.

      But that autumn a panic started over from England.  It stopped the railroad far down the Cumberland; it sent the furriners

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