The complete online text of The Frontiersmen by Mary Noailles Murfree.

Mary Noailles Murfree's writing career spans almost fifty years. During that period she wrote eighteen novels and six volumes of short fiction on a variety of distinctly American subjects: polite Southern society, the Civil War, colonial history, and Mis...

Most of the fifty short stories that Mary Noailles Murfree wrote in a career of almost fifty years were about the mountaineers of East Tennessee; but the dominant theme of all her fiction is, as she stated in her first published story, "The Dancin' Party...