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Spirit of Appalachia

Spirit of Appalachia follows the Spencer family and their neighbours across the Appalachian Mountains into the Watauga and Tennessee frontier during the American Revolution and the unsettled years that followed. Migration, warfare, poverty and difficult courtships shape a community attempting to survive beyond established colonial authority.

The five novels combine frontier adventure, family saga and romance with a sustained Christian interest in grief, forgiveness and providence. The fictional settlers’ experiences are placed within the contested expansion of American communities into Cherokee homelands.

Reading order

Books in this series (5 books)

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1. Over the Misty Mountains

Gilbert Morris

4.3(963)

A tragic loss forces Josh Spencer to leave his home in Virginia and seek the frontier as an escape from his pain and bitterness of heart. Setting out in late fall with no knowledge of wilderness survival, he encounters a heavy snowstorm. And then a Cherokee…

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2. Beyond the Quiet Hills

Gilbert Morris

4.4(573)

The Tennessee frontier had brought together Hawk and Elizabeth Spencer in the harshest of times. As they struggle to survive and raise their family at the Watauga settlement, Hawk brings his son, Jacob, to live with them. But Jacob has only known the life of the…

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3. Among the King’s Soldiers

Gilbert Morris

4.3(530)

Sarah MacNeal is struggling with the death of Philip Baxter. Her stepbrother, Jacob Spencer, escorts her and her friend Amanda Taylor back across the mountains to Williamsburg to visit Jacob's grandparents. Here Jacob becomes embroiled in a struggle that finally forces him to decide his loyalty…

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4. Beneath the Mockingbird’s Wings

Gilbert Morris

4.3(430)

The American Revolution may have ended, but life for the settlers of the land over the Appalachian Mountains was hardly settled. British attempts to drive the Americans out of the land and hostilities with the Cherokees put a tremendous strain upon the inhabitants. Nathaniel "Fox" Carter,…

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5. Around the River’s Bend

Gilbert Morris

4.3(446)

Sabrina Fairfax was raised in an elegant house with servants catering to her every desire. With her father's unexpected death, she finds herself impoverished and alone in London. Among his papers, however, she discovers a deed to a piece of land in the Colonies and seizes…