"The Wild Huntress: Love in the Wilderness" by Mayne Reid is a story placed in the 1800's American frontier, presenting Frank Wingrove, a young landowner who has trouble with a squatter, Hickman Holt, whose daughters unexpectedly pull him into their turbulent world of frontier dangers. The opening unveils a beautiful Tennessee landscape and the initial conflict between Frank and Hickman over land ownership, interrupted by Hickman's contrasting daughters, Marian and Lilian, one fierce and the other innocent. Their interactions with a new character coming to visit creates romance, conflict and excitement inside the wilds, as their father seems interested in stopping it.
The Wild Huntress: Love in the Wilderness
By Mayne Reid
Amidst the beauty of the wild American frontier, a landowner finds himself caught between a bitter feud and unexpected love with two very different sisters.
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About the AuthorThomas Mayne Reid was a British novelist who fought in the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). His many works on American life describe colonial policy in the American colonies, the horrors of slave labour, and the lives of American Indians. "Captain" Reid wrote adventure novels akin to those by Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). They were set mainly in the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica. He was an admirer of Lord Byron. His novel Quadroon (1856), an anti-slavery work, was later adapted as a play entitled The Octoroon (1859) by Dion Boucicault and produced in New York.
Thomas Mayne Reid was a British novelist who fought in the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). His many works on American life describe colonial policy in the American colonies, the horrors of slave labour, and the lives of American Indians. "Captain" Reid wrote adventure novels akin to those by Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). They were set mainly in the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica. He was an admirer of Lord Byron. His novel Quadroon (1856), an anti-slavery work, was later adapted as a play entitled The Octoroon (1859) by Dion Boucicault and produced in New York.
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