John Fox Jr.
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John Fox Jr. was an American journalist, novelist, and short story writer. His home in Big Stone Gap, Virginia is a museum and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Several of his works
John Fox Jr. in the frontispiece of a 1911 New York publication of Crittenden
John Fox Jr. 1903
John Fox Jr. House / Museum front porch
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1908 romance novel/western novel by John Fox, Jr. The novel became Fox's most successful, and was included among the top ten list of bestselling novels for 1908 and
John Fox Jr.
…occasionally wrote for periodicals, after 1904, Fox dedicated much of his attention to fiction. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (published in 1903) and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (published in 1908) are arguably his most well known and successful works, entering the New York Times top ten list of bestselling novels for 1903…
First edition cover
She Had Never Been Up There Before..., by Frederick Coffay Yohn, c. 1906, published in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox, Jr., Scribner's, 1908 - New Britain Museum of American Art
Reprising her 1912 Broadway role, Charlotte Walker starred with Thomas Meighan in the 1916 film The Trail of the Lonesome Pine.