Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by George Catlin, Johan Christian Dahl and Winslow Homer. A Kentucky mountain boy, born into a feud and educated out of it, goes down to the Bluegrass and the law schools and comes back — and the mountains have not agreed to change. Buck was a Kentucky lawyer who set his fiction among moonshiners and feudists in the country he practiced in; the courtroom and the still are both drawn by someone who had been in them. Fifty-seven plates by painters including Winslow Homer and Edvard Munch follow the mountain and hill country that shapes the novel, from burnt peaks and bridle paths to climbers at rest.