The Heart of the Hills

John Fox was an American journalist, short story writer and novelist. Fox was born in Kentucky, educated at Harvard, and became a journalist in New York. A Mountain Europa was his first novel serialized in Century Magazine. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, published in 1903, made the New York Times top ten list of best selling books. Many of Fox's novels are historical romances set in the area of his childhood. Fox's visits to this area made him aware of how the mountain people were taken advantage of by the industrialists who became rich by coal mining and cutting the timber. The Heart of the Hills is set in the Cumberland region where two children