  The author has cleverly interwoven a tale of absorbing heart interest with a graphically depicted view of the present Tobacco Troubles in Kentucky and the exciting times when the people formed into bands, known as THE NIGHT RIDERS, to protest against what they considered the unjust tax of the Toll Gate System. These protests were of a strenuous nature, not unlike those of the tobacco-growing section today, and as the characters in the story are real, live beings, who did things, the reader's interest never flags. THE PUBLISHERS.
Bracing himself in his stirrups, Milt cried hurriedly to Judson: "Leap up behind me!"—Page 130. Bracing himself in his stirrups, Milt cried hurriedly to Judson: "Leap up behind me!"—Page 130. |
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