The Rosewood Casket
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THE ROSEWOOD CASKET. Copyright © 1996 by Sharyn McCrumb. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint from the following:
“Small Farms Disappearing in Tennessee” by Jim Wayne Miller, from Brier, His Book, published by Gnomon Press. Used by permission.
All chapter-opening epigraphs, excluding chapters 1, 3, and 13, are from Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer by John Mack Faragher, published by Henry Holt and Company.
Cover design by Ervin Serrano
Cover photographs: mountains by Robert Cable/Getty Images; landscape by Judy Kennamer/Arcangel Images; woman by Mark Owen/Arcangel Images
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
McCrumb, Sharyn, 1948–
The rosewood casket: a Ballad Novel / Sharyn McCrumb.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-312-38886-7 (trade paperback)
ISBN 978-1-250-02269-1 (e-book)
1. Farm life—Fiction. 2. Women—Appalachian Region, Southern—Fiction. 3. Appalachian Region, Southern—Fiction. 4. Mountain life—Fiction. 5. Domestic fiction. I. Title.
PS3563.C3527R67 2013
813'.54—dc23
2013014561
e-ISBN 9781250022691
First published in the United States by Dutton, an imprint of Dutton Signet, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc.
First St. Martin’s Griffin Edition: August 2013