Cane Brake Men, The - Softcover

Cameron, Judd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553562770 ISBN 13: 9780553562774

Publisher: Domain, 1993

Synopsis

Following the War of Independence against the British Crown, Tennessee settlers face opposition from the federal government as they set out to carve out a new state for themselves. Original.

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About the Author:

Cameron Judd is the author of more than 30 published historical and Western novels, and is an award-winning newspaperman. Two of his novels, "Crockett of Tennessee" and "The Canebrake Men", were national finalists in the annual Spur Awards competition of Western Writers of America. He lives near Greeneville, Tennessee, with his wife.

From Publishers Weekly:

The final installment in Judd's ( The Border Men ) trilogy about the late 18th-century American frontier is set in Franklin, the territory that eventually became the state of Tennessee. Fourteen-year-old Owen Killefer survives a nighttime ambush by sadistic Redcoat deserter Tom Turndale. Turndale has killed or wounded Killefer's relatives and taken his sister, Emaline, as his captive bride. The balance of the story traces Owen's coming of age during his quest to rescue Emaline from Turndale, who lives among the Chickamauga tribe. In an attempt to supply badly needed background information, Judd has his characters deliver proclamations about every imaginable topic to practically anyone who will listen, as if the American frontier were tamed almost exclusively by curiously verbose semiliterates of outstanding moral fiber--and by the women who loved them. Unfortunately, neither these expository speeches nor the gratuitious epilogue succeed in making sense of a muddled, disjointed storyline that is burdened with too many coincidences and too much tragedy.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Domain
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0553562770
• ISBN 13: 9780553562774
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 10