The Land is Bright

By: Jim Kjelgaard

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Synopsis: In the middle of the nineteenth century, Colin Campbell's life was already mapped out for him. He had everything in his favor: good Virginian lineage, a respected position as county judge, a fine stable of horses, and the love of vivacious Jeannie Dare, a merchant's daughter. Then he met the Stewarts. To Colin, Ling Stewart represented all that was good and appealing about the Blue Ridge mountains bordering the Virginia plantations, which had always mysteriously beckoned him to their midst. Ling was crude but manly-a natural huntsman with ethics shaped by mountain living, and inevitably he became Colin's stanch friend. As for Ling's wife, Anne, she was the ideal woman, sensitive and loyal... and it was strange how she almost eclipsed Jeannie's image in Colin's heart. While the friendship flourished, rumors of war between the states grew heady and forbidding... The war, of course, would change everything. Although Colin abhorred the bloodshed that would stain his country's soil, he did what was expected of a Southern gentleman: he took up arms, choosing to lead the Blue Ridge men. Following the great popular success of his first historical book, The Lost Wagon, Jim Kjelgaard wrote this colorful picture of a stirring scene in American history.