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G H T E R O F
T H E L E G E N D
McGraw-Hill,
New York City, New York, 1965. 249 pp.
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Jesse Stuart’s seventh novel,
Daughter of the Legend,
published in 1965, is not set in
Kentucky, but in the Cumberland Gap
mountains of Tennessee. The story treats
the reaction of local society to the
love between a lumberjack, David
Stoneking, and a beautiful a Melungeon
girl, Deutisa Huntoon. Stoneking’s love
for Deutisa leads to the loss of friend,
his job and various indignities, but he
finally finds a new home with Deutisa
people.
Jesse’s interests in Melungeons
blossomed during his time as a student
at Lincoln Memorial University at
Harroagte, Tennessee, where he met a Melungeon
girl. He became fascinated with the
mysterious history of these people. His initial efforts to publish
the manuscript in 1945, while serving in
the United States Navy, failed; it was
not published until twenty
years later.
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