HANNAH FOWLER

by Janice Holt Giles ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 7, 1956

A plain woolsey of pioneering days relies on sentiment, on steady and sturdy virtues, and on the sobering annals of lives well weathered by hardship. The year turns back to 1778 when Hannah Moore, headed up the Kentucky River with her father-suffering from a festering axe wound- would have been stranded there were it not for Tice Fowler, met in the woods. Tice tries to save her father but cannot, and then brings Hannah back alone to Logan's Fort. With many men to choose from it is still Tice she wants and to whom she proposes. They raise a house together; there is a rough winter in which their animals starve- and wolves attack; and finally Hannah, carrying a second child, is alone in the house which two marauding Indians burn to the ground while taking her captive. There is the long march- and finally her escape, after she is forced to kill for the first time... A dependable, durable, rather than romantic reworking of incidents within the familiar frame of this period- this is largely for women.

Pub Date: March 7, 1956

ISBN: 0813108101

Page Count: -

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1956

Categories: FICTION