 "Mountain
Woman"
by Jean Ford
Uni Book No. 55
originally published 1936,
reprint 195?
The back cover reads:
"Tennessee Temptress
Here is a tempestuous tale of the Tennessee hills
told with disarming simplicity, yet with a canny understanding of mountain
people that brings them vividly to life before your very eyes.
It is the story of Laura Logan--beautiful, sophisticated
Greenwich Villager who, fed up with the shallowness and sham of the city,
emulates Mohammed and walks to the mountains, searching for a new life
and peace of mind.
How she finds wild adventure, love and romance...and
a strange mountain madness...makes one of Jean Ford's most exciting novels,
and one you won't forget for a long time.
She was drawn to the mountains by a force
so powerful she couldn't resist!"
Just like Victorian
novels, this is a book that puts the spotlight on the "noble savage"--in
this case the barefoot, gun toting hillbilly. Our heroine Laura, says goodbye
to city life (ala Green Acres) and hitchhikes her way from
New York to the hills of Tennessee, meeting the kindest, gentlest, well
kept mountain folk you can imagine. After a few weeks in the mountains,
Laura gets the rambling bug again and tries to get back to her urban jungle,
but the pull of the mountains is too strong and she must return. Luckily
this book stays away from most of the Hatfield/McCoy hillbilly clichés,
but you after about the twentieth time Laura praises the clean mountain
air and the robins singing you want to get out a twelve gage and administer
some mountain justice of your own.
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