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A Melungeon Winter
Resource ID: 19088
Type: book, fiction
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- UPDATED: 6.17.2025
- status: in progress
- Melungeons
editor:
n/a
publisher:
date:
2001
ISBN:
9781570721434
pages:
202
notes:
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contents:
description:
Two young friends - one white, the other black - become men when the father of one of them is wrongly accused and convicted of a murder. They turn to a feared Melungeon hermit whose wisdom and courage take the three of them on a journey through Appalachia of the 1950s. With the assistance of a black holy woman who lives in a cave, and a 350-pound Texan who drives a tractor-trailer called The Yellow Rose of Texas, they uncover a plot involving bootleg whiskey, blackmail, and betrayal. Using humor, suspense, and folk legends, the author spins a tale of murder and friendship that rises above the prejudices of the times.
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