The Choir Invisible

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by George Catlin, Thomas Cole and Jacob van Strij. Kentucky in the 1790s: a schoolmaster on the frontier, a woman he cannot have, and a country between the wilderness and the law. Allen grew up on a Kentucky farm ruined by the Civil War and spent his career writing the state into American literature — its hemp fields, its woods, its stiff-necked pe...