The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1908 romance novel set in the Appalachian Mountains at the
turn of the 20th century. Sprinkled throughout the work are all the elements of a good romance.
It has an elegant but realistic heroine a hero who is an agent of progress and enlightenment
and a group of seemingly ignorant mountaineers to be pulled into the flow of orthodox American
culture. In addition it portrays the class struggles of the period incredibly.
