As time passes and she sees Richard's affection recede, only her stubborn honesty gives her the strength to deny lip service to a doctrine she cannot truly accept and, at the last, courage to follow the dictates of her heart. She becomes part of a strange world in which men and women―even husbands and wives―live apart, coming together only for meals and for worship. When Richard joins the Shaker community, Rebecca goes with him, as a dutiful wife should, hoping that her love will ultimately win him back to her and to the larger world. The Shaker missionaries newly arrived in Kentucky find him an easy convert. At first the marriage is happy it is only after their child is stillborn that Richard shows preliminary signs of religious fanaticism in his insistence that this is God's punishment visited upon them. She cannot remember a time when she has not loved and trusted him and followed where he led. Rebecca Fowler is only seventeen when she marries Richard Cooper. In The Believers, first published in 1957, she continues her series about the settling of Kentucky with a moving story of love and marriage set in a Shaker community. In her historical novels about Kentucky, Janice Holt Giles has become known for the integrity with which she handles her material and for the realism with which she writes. Good / good.The Believers is a novel written by Janice Holt Giles. First published in 1958, this reprint gives Giles fans another lively piece of Kentucky's frontier history.(Publisher). Like Giles's earlier historical novels, The Land Beyond the Mountains is an engaging story of adventure and romance. Interwoven with the Spanish Conspiracy are tales of struggles with Indians, of the birth of a Green River Valley town, and of the two women Cass loves: Rachel, a gentle Quaker, and Tattie, a fiery waif he rescues from Philadelphia slums. Had it not been for the loyalty of men like Giles's fictional hero, Major Cassius Cartwright, General James Wilkinson's 1783 attempt to create a Spanish empire in the West might have succeeded.

In her fourth novel of the Kentucky frontier, Giles combines her fascination for the past with her gift for storytelling.

Stickers from Horton's Bookstore in Carrollton, GA to front paste-down and endpaper. Inked inscription to front free endpaper.

Dust-spotting and remainder mark to edges of text block. Rubbing, soiling, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of green cloth over boards. Rubbing, creasing, chipping, and tears to covers, corners, and edges of price-clipped dust jacket. Giles, Janice Holt The Land Beyond the Mountains FOURTH PRINTINGīoston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958.

The Believers by Janice Holt Giles