American writer, born at Stony Point, KY, on the 16th of December 1863. He graduated from Harvard in 1883. His books, which depict the life of the Kentucky mountaineers, include A Mountain Europa (1894); A Cumberland Vendetta (1895); Hell-for-Sartain (1896); The Kentuckians (1897); Crittenden (1900); Bluegrass and Rhododendron (1901); The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1903); Christmas Eve on Lonesome (1904); Following the Sun Flag (1905); A Knight of the Cumberland (1906); The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908) and The Heart of the Hills (1913). He died at Big Stone Gap, VA, on the 8th of July 1919.
