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In this gripping novel from Emerson Hough, long-simmering racial tensions come to a head in a small town in the Mississippi Delta when a powerful local land baron is tried for a gruesome crime; meanwhile, a confounding mystery of mistaken identity and lost fortune is resolved.
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Table of contents
- THE LAW OF THE LAND
- Contents
- The Law of the Land
- BOOK I
- Chapter I - Miss Lady
- Chapter II - Muley
- Chapter III - The Visitor
- Chapter IV - A Question of Valuation
- Chapter V - Certain Problems
- Chapter VI - The Drum
- Chapter VII - The Bell
- Chapter VIII - The Volcano
- Chapter IX - On its Majesty's Service
- Chapter X - Miss Lady of the Stair
- Chapter XI - Colonel Calvin Blount's Proposal
- Chapter XII - A Woman Scorned
- Chapter XIII - John Doe Versus Y.V.R.R.
- Chapter XIV - Number 4
- Chapter XV - The Pursuit
- Chapter XVI - The Traveling-Bag
- Chapter XVII - Miss Lady and Henry Decherd
- Chapter XVIII - Misfortune
- BOOK II
- Chapter I - The Making of the Wilderness
- BOOK III
- Chapter I - Eddring, Agent of Claims
- Chapter II - The Opinions of Calvin Blount
- Chapter III - Regarding Louise Loisson
- Chapter IV - The Religion of Jules
- Chapter V - Discovery
- Chapter VI - The Dancer
- Chapter VII - The Summons
- Chapter VIII - The Stolen Steamboat
- Chapter IX - The Accuser
- Chapter X - The Voyage
- Chapter XI - The Wilderness
- Chapter XII - The House of Horror
- Chapter XIII - The Night in the Forest
- Chapter XIV - At the Big House
- Chapter XV - Certain Motives
- Chapter XVI - The New Sheriff
- Chapter XVII - The Law of the Land
- Chapter XVIII - Miss Lady at the Big House
- Chapter XIX - Three Ladies Louise
- Chapter XX - The Lid of the Grave
- Chapter XXI - The Red Riot of Youth
- Chapter XXII - Amende Honorable