Catch The Lightwood Chronicles Crafted By Brainard Cheney Presented As File

compiler of this work, it is recommended as a companion to all of Brainard Cheney's novels, These novels include Lightwood, River Rogue, This is Adam and Devil's Elbow,

All of Cheney's novels are set in south Georgia, covering a period from circathrough, A member of the Fugitive and Agrarian movements of Vanderbilt University in thes, His close friends included Caroline Gordon, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, and later, Flannery O'Connor,

He opens up a neglected part of the south to deep examination of historical roots and

the people who lived in that era,

Excellent authorall of his works include autobiographical and local historical information,

Best of allfine literature! The Lightwood Chronicles tells the epic story of a violent struggle over land rights, The novel Lightwood told the story in fiction, The Chronicles offers the historical background and also celebrates the work of Brainard Cheney, author of Lightwood, Following the Civil War, another war broke out in the piney woods of south Georgia between Northern land baronsthe Dodge Companyand local landowners, The Dodge Company began harvesting the ancient pine forests and shipping the timber to customers worldwide, They made hundreds of millions of dollars in the process, They evicted the squatters from land occupied for decades, Epic court battles led to violent struggle and murder, Angry "squatters"demanded that "the Dodges be sent hellward, " An alleged conspiracy led to the murder of Captain John Forsyth, the timber company boss, Prominent citizens went to prison and many others died, The Dodge Company left the majestic pine forests a wasteland, with,acres of wooden treasure ransacked, the lives of the natives forever altered, .