![]() ![]() Together, they take their claim to land, build a cabin, and start a family. ![]() Finally, she turns to the bashful Tice and asks him to marry her and take her away from the crowded fort. Only with Tice, as silent and downright as herself, does Hannah feel at ease. ![]() By the time Tice Fowler, on his way to Logan's Fort, stumbles upon them alone in the wilderness, Samuel is dying from blood poisoning.When Samuel dies, Tice takes Hannah to the fort, where women are scarce, and Hannah finds herself besieged by suitors. As the story opens, Hannah is nursing her father, injured when an axe slips and cuts his leg. ![]() Samuel Moore and his daughter Hannah set out for the border country with a party led by George Rogers Clark but left to follow the Kentucky River to Boones' Fort. In the novel Hannah Fowler, Janice Holt Giles created a pioneer woman who would, In Giles's words, "endow her own physical seed with her strength and courage, and her own tenderness and love." First published in 1956, this work is the second in Giles's series of historical novels on Kentucky, which includes The Kentuckians and The Believers. ![]()
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