Exerpt: "A creaking complaint of loose and rattling boards rose under the old mountaineer's brogans as he stepped from the threshold to the porch. His eyes, searching the wooded mountain-side, held at first only that penetration which born woodsmen share with the hawk and ferret, but presently they kindled into irascibility as well."
Charles Neville Buck (April 15, 1879 - ?) was an American writer who had many of his novels staged in theater productions and adapted into films during the silent film era. He was born in Woodford County, Kentucky. His father Charles William Buck served U.S. president Grover Cleveland's administration in Peru[2] and wrote Under the Sun about the Inca period. His work includes yarns about the mountain men of Kentucky and their traditions.