Christy

Christy Huddleston left home at nineteen to teach school in a remote mountain region of the Cherokee National Forest. There she came to know the wild mountain people with their fierce pride, their dark superstitions, their terrible poverty.

In these primitive surroundings, confronted by blood feuds and whisky smugglers, undergoing privations and an appalling typhoid epidemic, she first encounters the real meaning of life... and love...