author

Hugh Lundsford

1879–1957

Best known as a storyteller of Kentucky mountain life, this American novelist also published under the pen name Hugh Lundsford. His fiction was popular enough to inspire stage productions and silent-film adaptations in the early 20th century.

1 Audiobook

The Law of Hemlock Mountain

The Law of Hemlock Mountain

by Hugh Lundsford

About the author

Hugh Lundsford was a pen name used by Charles Neville Buck (April 15, 1879 – August 10, 1957), an American writer whose novels often drew on the people, customs, and conflicts of the Kentucky mountains. Works published as Hugh Lundsford include The Law of Hemlock Mountain.

Buck built a wide readership in the early 1900s, and several of his stories were adapted for the stage and for silent films. Readers were drawn to his fast-moving plots and his interest in regional life, especially the traditions and tensions of Appalachian communities.

Today, the Hugh Lundsford name survives mainly through public-domain editions and audiobook recordings, while Buck is generally the better-known name behind the work. Together, those two bylines point to a writer who helped bring mountain-set American fiction to a broad popular audience.