Books with title The Shepherd of the Hills

Disillusioned and depressed, Dan Howitt leaves his city life to seek refuge in the backwoods of the Ozark Mountains. There he meets the families that live and work among the hills and becomes entwined in their lives. Becoming part of the community he is a friend to Old Matt whose life has been shattered by sorrow; an advisor to the young lovers Sammy and Young Matt; a guardian to the poor lost boy, Pete; a victim of mountain vigilantes; and finally a player in the mystery of the ghostly figure that roams the hills at night.

"IT was corn-planting time, when the stranger followed the Old Trail into the Mutton Hollow neighborhood. All day a fine rain had fallen steadily, and the mists hung heavy over the valley. The lower hills were wrapped as in a winding sheet; dank and cold. The trees were dripping with moisture. The stranger looked tired and wet..." The Shepherd of the Hills is a book written in 1907 by author Harold Bell Wright and illustrated by Frank G. Cootes. It depicts a mostly fictional story of mountain folklore and has been translated into seven languages since its release.Wright began visiting the Ozark Mountains in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas in 1898 at the bidding of his physician, who recommended two vacations a year in a more suitable climate for health reasons. In following his doctor's advice, he became acquainted with John and Anna Ross, known locally as Old Matt and Aunt Mollie. The people he encountered during his eight summers spent camping on the Rosses' land were the inspirations for his characters in the book.

The Shepherd of the Hills by Harold Bell Wright Harold Bell Wright's masterpiece, The Shepherd of the Hills may be familiar to theater goers and movie enthusiasts, too. However excellent these adaptations may be, their power cannot be compared to the original: a wonderful and moving text about the life of the people living in the Ozark Mountains in Missouri and Arkansas.The book captivates the reader not only with the multiple plots developing parallel to each other, then intersecting in exactly the right moment. The characters are also masterfully built and the journey is taken not only into the mountains, but into the protagonist's own self as well. A lonely stranger comes to the Ozarks and makes a very powerful appearance, changing the community's life and changing himself, too. The story amuses with little, anecdote-like events such as Young Matt's attempts to conquer Sammy Lane's heart or the fight between Matt and Wash Gibb for the honorable title "the Strongest Man in the Hills". The anecdotes on one side are balanced out by much more serious events on the other side - the book is spiced with humor, but it is ultimately about what any good book should be: the eternal fight between good and evil and life, with all its beauty and pain, all told in a fascinating, thought raising way.Wright's novel is certainly educational, but it is also heartwarming, making an excellent read for youth and adults alike. If you liked Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, you will certainly love The Shepherd of the Hill, too and not only because the vernacular spoken by the characters is pretty much the same as Mark Twain used in his famous stories, but also because the events are just as well structured and multi-faceted, the characters are just as complex as the characters in Twain's fictional, but all too real world.

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Reprint Edition but possible first edition for Grosset. GROSSET & DUNLAP, NY 1907 on copyright page, but book may have been published in 1970. THERE IS WHAT APPEARS TO BE A RED STAMP 'SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS FARM - MISSOURIT OZARKS' ON THE FRONT ENDPAPER (see photos). AT THE LOWER AREA OF THE FRONT ENDPAPER THERE IS WHAT APPEARS TO BE ANOTHER STAMP BUT COULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR (see photos) "For "Old Matt's Cabin" Sincerely Yours - Harold Bell Wright - Tucson Ariz." Good-/Fair++ dust jacket condition. COMPETITIVE PRICING! Once paid, books will ship immediately without email notification to customer (it's on the way), you are welcomed to email about shipment date! REFUNDS: All ViewFair books, prints, and manuscript items are 100% refundable up to 14 business days after item is received. InvCodePrc 45 E H V VIEWFAIR BOOKS: 005511

All day a fine rain had fallen steadily, and the mists hung heavy over the valley. The lower hills were wrapped as in a winding sheet; dank and cold. The trees were dripping with moisture. The stranger looked tired and wet. By his dress, the man was from the world beyond the ridges, and his carefully tailored clothing looked strangely out of place in the mountain wilderness. His form stooped a little in the shoulders, perhaps with weariness, but he carried himself with the unconscious air of one long used to a position of conspicuous power and influence; and, while his well-kept hair and beard were strongly touched with white, the brown, clear lighted eyes, that looked from under their shaggy brows, told of an intellect unclouded by the shadows of many years. It was a face marked deeply by pride; pride of birth, of intellect, of culture; the face of a scholar and poet; but it was more--it was the countenance of one fairly staggering under a burden of disappointment and grief. As the stranger walked, he looked searchingly into the mists on every hand, and paused frequently as if questioning the proper course. Suddenly he stepped quickly forward.

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Harold Bell Wright (1872-1944) was a best-selling American writer of fiction, essays, and non-fiction during the first half of the 20th century. Although mostly forgotten or ignored after the middle of the 20th century, he is said to have been the first American writer to sell a million copies of a novel and the first to make $1 million from writing fiction. Between 1902 and 1942 Wright wrote 19 books, several stage plays, and many magazine articles. More than twenty one movies were made from Wright's stories, including Gary Cooper's first major movie, The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926). In 1902, while pastoring the Christian Church in Pittsburg, Kansas, he wrote a melodramatic story, entitled That Printer of Udell's. But it was Wright's second novel, The Shepherd of the Hills (1907) that established him as a best-selling author. In 1912 he published his most popular book, The Winning of Barbara Worth. Amongst his other works are The Calling of Dan Matthews (1909), The Uncrowned King (1910), Their Yesterdays (1912), The Eyes of the World (1914), The Re-Creation of Brian Kent (1914), When a Man's a Man (1916) and Helen of the Old House (1921).