author
Hugh Lundsford
1879–1957
Known to readers as Hugh Lundsford, this Kentucky-born novelist wrote vivid mountain dramas and adventure stories that were popular enough to reach the stage and the silent screen. His fiction is especially remembered for its strong sense of place and its feel for Appalachian life and tradition.
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The Law of Hemlock Mountain
by Hugh Lundsford
About the author
Writing under the name Hugh Lundsford, he was better known in literary history as Charles Neville Buck. Born in Woodford County, Kentucky, in 1879, he became a prolific American novelist whose stories often drew on the people, landscapes, and customs of the Kentucky mountains.
Before gaining recognition as a novelist, he studied art and worked in journalism. That background helped give his books a lively, visual quality, and many of his novels later found a wider audience through theater productions and silent-film adaptations.
His work was especially associated with tales of mountain life, where local tradition, conflict, romance, and adventure often met. The Hugh Lundsford name appears as a pseudonym on works including The Law of Hemlock Mountain, linking that pen name to a writer who left a distinctive mark on early 20th-century popular fiction.