We are making our way across the USA Fiction Challenge.
Today our stop is the Show Me State of Missouri.
The Shepherd Of the Hills
by Harold Bell Wright
The story depicts the lives of mountain people living in the Ozarks.
The main story surrounds the relationship between Grant
Matthews Senior and Dad Howitt Howitt is elderly, learned man who
has escaped the buzzing restlessness of the city to live in the
backwoods neighborhood of Mutton Hollow. Howitt spends his time alone,
acting as a mediator and friend to the mountain people, and trying to
recover from his tragic past, which includes the deaths of his
wife and children, and the later presumed madness and subsequent suicide
of his only surviving child, his artist son (Mad
Howard). Howitt's reclusiveness has earned him the moniker "The
Shepherd of The Hills" But he befriends the Matthews clan who come to love and
trust him.
Printing History
Written by Harold Bell Wright (1872 –1944)
Book Supply Company
1907
The Film
1941
Starring
John Wayne
Betty Field
Harry Carey
Directed by
Henry Hathaway
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