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A narrative set in an isolated mountain community centers on a mysterious prehistoric burial ground of diminutive people and the local responses it provokes. Interwoven episodes portray neighbors’ everyday routines, domestic tensions, and curious visitors while rich landscape description and regional folklore shape mood. Themes of memory, mortality, and the persistence of superstition emerge as reverence and skepticism collide, producing an atmosphere-driven series of scenes that emphasize setting and communal life over a single, linear plot.

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Title: In the "Stranger People's" country

A novel

Author: Charles Egbert Craddock

Illustrator: W. T. Smedley

Release date: October 23, 2024 [eBook #74630]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891

Credits: Peter Becker, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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IN THE "STRANGER PEOPLE'S" COUNTRY

A NOVEL

BY CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK

With Illustrations

NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE
1891

Copyright, 1891, by Harper & Brothers.

All rights reserved.


CONTENTS

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VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.
XIV.
XV.
XVI.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

"LEETLE MOSE"
"'WAR—WAR HE 'QUAINTED WITH ENNY OF 'EM?'"
"THE SADDLE BORE NO RIDER"
"'YES, SIR, TER KILL HIM EF HE WAR TER INTERFERE WITH ME!'"
"IT WAS AN ATTITUDE THAT COMMENDED A TEMPORIZING POLICY"
"HE HAD SNAPPED THE BARREL IN PLACE"
"'COME, GUTHRIE,' HE ONLY SAID"
"EVERY DAY THAT DAWNED"

IN THE "STRANGER PEOPLE'S" COUNTRY.