The Roof Tree

1921. Author, cartoonist, journalist. Though Buck wrote various kinds of novels, his most famous writings are those in which he drew upon his own background and experiences in law and/or the Kentucky mountains. Buck formulated his themes by using revenge, romance, and struggles with the law amongst his characters. The Roof Tree begins: Between the smoke-darkened walls of the mountain cabin still murmured the last echoes of the pistol's bellowing, and it seemed a voice of everlasting duration to the shock-sickened nerves of those within. First it had thundered with the deafening exaggeration of confined space, then its echo had beaten against the clay-chink wall timbers and rolled upward to the rafters. Now, dwindled to a ghostly whisper, it lingered and persisted. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.