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My father was raised in Boone, NC, in the far northwestern corner of the Appalachians of that state, about 30 miles from the Tennessee line. His parents had a hillside farm there, and I can just barely remember seeing my grandfather behind a plow being pulled by a mule. Plowing furrows on the side of a mountain takes some work, much different from a farm in the flatlands. This would have been in the late 1950s. I also remember some chickens, an old farmhouse, some apple trees, and blue skies and fresh mountain air.The Land Breakers took me back 225 years from now, beginning in 1779, when the first settlers came up that mountainside to build a life and farm the land, to start families and carve out a piece of the brand new America. They were lucky to have a gun and an ax, the two things most necessary for survival. With those two things and enough sense and courage to make what they needed, plus a horse, a cow, a pig and a dog, they built a cabin for protection, killed deer and caught fish to eat til they could get crops in the ground, fought the bears and the wolves and the snakes and did what they had to do.The hard work and determination of the settlers is almost beyond my scope of understanding. Yes, there were those among them who were lazy, or mean, or naive about what it would take to survive. Some generous men and women who helped out neighbors when needed, some stingy, sly men who wanted it all for themselves, and as always the case, some who just wanted to fiddle and sing, with never a thought for tomorrow. It seems that the people who make up a community come in all types and personalities, and thats something that hasnt changed in all these years. This book is also full of adventure and sickness and death and birth and hunger and love and some mighty tough people who wouldnt let any of those things beat them, because they had a future to build. These were the people who came before my grandfather behind the plow, the ancestors that made my father such a good man, and the reason that I have enough leisure time to read a book about them instead of working my fingers to the bone every minute of the day. These people were giants.This one is the best book I have read this year.
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