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John William Fox was born on December 16, 1863 at Stony Point, Kentucky to John William Fox Sr. and Minerva Worth Carr.
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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1908 romance novel/western novel written 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 1909.
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This novel by John Fox is a thoughtful reminiscence of small town American life in Kentucky, leading up to and during the American Civil War. First released in 1903, this novel follows the residents of the town of Kingdom Come as they mature. The principle character, Chad, is made to grow up quickly as the war affects life in the little town he lives in. Chad is ostracized by members of his family and his friends as he joins the Union Army, believing firmly in the abolition of slavery. His character is marked by compassion and understanding of all the people he encounters, giving the novel a moral element which remains poignant to this day. The divisions present within Kentucky were noted by scholars and historians. Families in the towns and villages of the state were torn asunder by differences of opinion on whether the Union or the Confederacy should be supported. In this book, it is ultimately the choices Chad makes, and his unstinting loyalty to his own innate principles, that forms the deciding elements of this book's plot. Written by John Fox partly in recollection of his own formative years in the 1860s, The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come was famously adapted by 20th Century Fox into a popular motion picture during the early 1960s. Although elements of the plot were streamlined in the movie, it remained true to the essential morals the author sought to convey.
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"A lively narrative, the reader gets a vivid picture of Manchuria under war conditions." -The Congregationalist 1905 "Anything that John Fox writes has distinction." -World Today 1905 "One of the best correspondents in the field." - The Book Buyer 1905 In John Fox's 1905 book “Following the Sun Flag,” he recounts his experiences as a war correspondent in Japan and Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War. Fox was one of the newspaper correspondents who flocked to Japan on the outbreak of the war. With Port Arthur as a goal, a number of war correspondents, among them Mr. John Fox, Jr., set out for Japan in the early part of the Japanese-Russian war, with the distinct purpose in view of witnessing the Japanese "in assault and in retreat—to see him fighting, wounded, and since such things in war must be, dying—dead." We have become tolerably well acquainted with the difficulties of correspondents in the East, but this little book by Fox gives them a picturesque and almost humorous turn which helps one realize the helplessness of the newspaper man with the Japanese forces. The chief interest and complacency of the book is in the free and easy style by which he gives sidelights into the examples of patriotism, sacrifices of the people of all ranks, and conditions of men and women in assisting the soldiers who went to the front, as well as into the habits and customs of the domestic circles of the Japanese and their amusements. "Following the Sun-Flag" gives us a picture of turn of the century society in Japan, a comparative study of Japanese character that is finely realistic, and a series of personal experiences carefully noted. The work is never dull and is brightened with a touch of happy humor. In his conclusion Fox notes: "All my life Japan had been one of the two countries on earth I most wanted to see. No more enthusiastic pro-Japanese ever put foot on the shore of that little island than I was when I swung into Yokohama Harbor nearly seven months before. I had lost much--but I was carrying away in heart and mind the nameless charm of the land and of the people--for the charm of neither has much succumbed to the horrors imported from us." About the author: John Fox Jr. (1862 –1919) was an American journalist, war correspondent, novelist, and short story writer. Fox gained a following as a war correspondent, working for Harper's Weekly in Cuba during the Spanish–American War of 1898, where he served with the "Rough Riders." Six years later he traveled to Asia to report on the Russo-Japanese War for Scribner's magazine. "Following the Sun-Flag" is a well-regarded historical account, cited by the following modern works: •John Fox, Jr., Appalachian Author, Bill York – 2002 •Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary, Flora 2006 •War and Society Volume 1: A Yearbook of Military History, Bond, 2015 •From Ally to Enemy: Anglo-Japanese Military Relations 1900-45, Towle – 2006 •Political History and Culture of Russia, 2003 •Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military, Edgerton – 1997 Other works by the author include: •A Cumberland Vendetta and Other Stories (1895) •Hell-fer-Sartain and Other Stories (1897) •The Kentuckians (1898) •A Mountain Europa (serialized 1892, published 1899) •Crittenden: A Kentucky Story of Love and War (1900) •Blue-grass and Rhododendron: Outdoors in Old Kentucky (1901) •The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1903) •Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories (1904) •Following the Sun Flag: A Vain Pursuit Through Manchuria (1905) •A Knight of the Cumberland (1906) •The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908) •The Heart of the Hills (1913) •In Happy Valley •Erskine Dale •A Purple Rhododendron and Other Stories
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Serving as tour guide, Fox invites his audience to go with him log rafting down the Kentucky River, bass fishing in the Cumberland Mountains, rabbit hunting in the Bluegrass, and chasing outlaws in the border country of Kentucky and Virginia. Along the route we meet Old South colonels and their ladies, lawless moonshiners and their shy daughters, bloodthirsty preachers, and educated young gentlemen visitors who explore the southern mountains for fun and profit. These sketches offer a delightful blend of macho adventure and sage observation by an erudite young writer who had lived in the two worlds that provide his subject matter-the elegant society of the Bluegrass aristocracy and the hardscrabble feuding clans of mountaineers.
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John William Fox was born on December 16, 1863 at Stony Point, Kentucky to John William Fox Sr. and Minerva Worth Carr.
Since John Fox's father was a school-teacher, and John’s education until he was fifteen was chiefly at home. Then he attended Transylvania College in Lexington, and from 1880 to 1883, when he was graduated, he was a student at Harvard.
His scholastic interest seems to have been confined to literary subjects, but he was a good athlete and an enthusiastic amateur actor, especially of the roles of women.
After leaving Harvard John Fox worked for a brief time with the New York Sun, attended the Columbia Law School for two months, returned to newspaper work with the New York Times, and in February 1883, his health having failed, went home to Paris, Kentucky, for a year's rest.
Later he joined his father and brother in some mining ventures in the Cumberland Mountains, and actually went into the mountains to live. With him were a number of young men who, like himself, had recently left college and were anxious for excitement. They could not, however, let the new world they had invaded go onward as it would; they organized a volunteer police force among themselves and in a short time made life in the mountains as safe as in a great metropolis.
After his business and police activities, Fox turned to teaching, but the mountaineers continued to dominate his mind, and before long he began publishing about them a series of writings which showed a mastery of their dialect, and of their ways and thoughts.
A Mountain Europa (1894) was the first of a series of novelettes which later included A Cumberland Vendetta (1895), Hell fer Sartain (1897), Christmas Eve on Lonesome (1904), and A Knight of the Cumberland (1906). The Kentuckians (1897) is concerned more with the aristocratic lowlands than with the mountains, but in Blue Grass and Rhododendron (1901), more essay than fiction, he returned to his old emphasis upon the mountains.
During the Spanish-American War, his writing was interrupted by his going to Cuba as a Rough Rider, but he soon left that organization and became a war correspondent for Harper’s Weekly. In this capacity he witnessed a great deal of actual fighting, much of which he soon used as material in the novel Crittenden (1900).
He also went as a correspondent for the war between the Japanese and the Russians, but was forced to come home without reaching the front. Following the Sun Flag (1903) is a flat, querulous account of this experience. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1903), The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908), The Heart of the Hills (1913), and Erskine Dale, Pioneer (1920) are novels dealing with the mountaineers, and at times—most notably in the Little Shepherd—with mountaineers in contact with the urbane civilization to the west of them. These books were all romantic in outlook and made little contribution to thought, but they were enormously popular, and the Little Shepherd, for all its sentimentality, doubtless furthered a realization throughout this country that the Civil War was evil and for the most part inexcusable. The celebrity of the books kept their author always in the public consciousness, and for years he went about giving dialect readings from his own works.
His death was at Big Stone Gap, Virginia in 1919 from pneumonia. He was buried in the family plot in Paris, Kentucky.
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His scholastic interest seems to have been confined to literary subjects, but he was a good athlete and an enthusiastic amateur actor, especially of the roles of women.
Some of the accounts and photographs of him give the impression that John Fox was a poseur, but the general testimony is that in his personal relations he was affable and humorous.
In 1908 John Fox married the comic opera singer, Fritzi Scheff, and took her to live at his home at Big Stone Gap. They were later divorced and had no children.