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Caintuck Lies Within My Soul: The Jemima Boone Story Kindle Edition

by C.M. Huddleston (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 out of 5 stars 121 ratings

An award-winning historical novel, Caintuck Lies Within My Soul, is a masterful, historical biography which relates the story of Jemima Boone, Daniel Boone's fourth child and second daughter. Jemima's thrilling tale, especially her dream of moving west of the Appalachian Mountains to live on America's first frontier, begins with her childhood in North Carolina. All comes to fruition when during America's Revolutionary War, the Boone family’s arduous and dangerous journey into Kentucky sees them settle at Fort Boonesborough. Jemima, her sister Suzy, and her mother, Rebecca, arrive to find themselves the first three white women in Caintuck.

Jemima's experiences in the new settlements include by her capture by Indians and the 1778 siege of Boonesborough, which lasted ten days. Based on years of detailed research, this historically-accurate novel relates one of America's great adventure stories as experienced through the eyes of a woman.

Jemima’s life is one of a young woman who finds courage, happiness, and love while becoming an American Revolutionary War veteran. Caintuck Lies Within My Soul won awards from Royal Dragonfly (2020) and Incipere Awards (2021) in historical fiction.

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  4. Publication date
    February 3, 2020
  5. Reading age
    13 - 18 years
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Jemima followed her famous father to Caintuck.
There Indians took her captive.
Now every Kentuckian knows her name.

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Diane Donovan of Midwest Book Reviews -
  • Jemima Boone's story begins in the mid-1700s and opens with a feisty little girl's determination to hunt ginseng in the Yadkin Valley hills. Her success at uncovering 'sang' without tools or the help of her older brother is somewhat tempered by the realization that she's gotten lost. The roots of her determination and adventures are formed on this night, as well as author C.M. Huddleston's ability to capture not only sights, sounds, and atmosphere, but the culture and language of Kentucky's peoples: "She stopped and turned in a slow circle, observing every direction for familiar landmarks or smoke from a cabin fire, for theirs was not the only cabin along the Yadkin. She listened, but heard only the tree frogs begin their songs, a few crows, and then a whippoorwill. Not close. She knew the will's loud call carried for miles."
  • As Jemima grows up in an environment that includes Indian threats, the dangers of settling in 'Caintuck', and the spirited now-young-adult Jemima's handling of two suitors and many changes in her life and family, readers receive an engaging, engrossing story. Part of its strength is because it is narrated from more than one perspective and incorporates the lingo of the region in a readily understandable fashion that lends atmosphere and meaning to the story: "Flanders Callaway, the worst happenin' a married woman faces is the loss of her husband. While I've not suffered it myself, I suffered with her as Daniel's sister Hannah grieved for John. Today, Jemima stood at that gate watchin', while her husband acted like a fool, exposin' himself and his brother to the danger of being shot and scalped. And yet you, young man can't figure out why Mima is crying?"
  • From women who bravely face their man's absence or treachery to meetings between captains, warriors and chiefs and the lasting impact on Native American and white relationships that these moves bring, the pioneering efforts, perceptions, and challenges of early America come to life in a re-enactment of early Kentucky's history and settlement.
  • Caintuck Lies Within My Soul is a work of fiction with a strong historical overlay. Almost every event described in the course of the story really happened. Years of research about early Kentucky settlements in general and the Boone family in particular create a strong reality-based focus to the story.
  • In profiling the women involved in the nation's first major westward expansion, Huddleston expands upon and adds depth to the Boone family story, which traditionally focuses relatively exclusively on the more famous Daniel Boone.
  • Readers interested in American pioneer experience in general and women's perceptions and challenges in particular will find Caintuck Lies Within My Soul does an outstanding job of bringing the times and women's issues to life.
  • It's a story hard to put down, not easily forgotten, and packed with facts about Kentucky's evolution.

Sue K. Ballard, author of My Blessed, Wretched Life: Rebecca Boone's Story
  • The story of Kentucky pioneer history is so fascinating, wild, and violent that it can hold almost anyone's attention. But sometimes we want to immerse ourselves in this story through the eyes of a pioneer woman, especially one as involved and well-remembered in the history books, as Daniel Boone's fourth child, Jemima.
  • Author Connie Huddleston has answered readers' wishes in this, her fifteenth book, an historical novel, well researched and full of the momentous people and events of the times. We first meet Jemima in the year 1767, at five-years- old, already showing her independence and love of adventure. She grows up embracing her father's dream of settling the wilderness of Kentucky - and, as it turns out, at whatever the cost. Through Jemima's engaging, authentic voice, we are taken on this arduous and daring journey. Any reader ages 12- adult will be thrilled they came along for the ride.

From the Back Cover

Amidst the forested hills of North Carolina, a girl, daughter of a long hunter, dreamed of a land beyond the Appalachians—a land called Caintuck. She envisioned its mountains that rolled into large meadows, cut by rock-bottomed streams and fast-flowing rivers—meadows covered with thick grass where buffalo, elk, deer, and turkeys grazed. She knew Caintuck as a land filled with the riches of nature and scarcely inhabited— the hunting ground of many Native American tribes. Lying beyond the Donelson Line separating the colonies from the Indian inhabited wilderness, Caintuck drew men to its beauty as well as its bounty. Having heard the stories from her father and uncle, among others who had dared to cross the mountains into Caintuck, and despite the many dangers, Jemima hankered - yearned - longed to cross those mountains and live in that promised land of milk and honey.
Caintuck Lies Within My Soul tells the story of Jemima Boone, daughter to Kentucky pioneer Daniel Boone.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B084GWXJFD
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Interpreting Time's Past Press
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 3, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 543 KB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 235 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1732833333
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 - 18 years
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C.M. Huddleston tried making careers of teaching, archaeology, and historic preservation before attempting her dream of writing the stories circling through her head. While her first three ventures proved successful, her dream career has panned out to be much more appealing! She now writes, edits, and then shares the characters and the stories roaming her head so you can experience their adventures right along with her. Can you imagine a more fun job? No boss except for all those characters vying for attention, wanting their story written, and constantly telling her to get on with it and type faster! So, immerse yourself in fiction, discover a bit of history—maybe even some archaeology—and peruse the stories gleaned from an award-winning author’s imagination.

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  • Sophie Shopper
    5.0 out of 5 stars I wanted to Time Travel - And I did with the help of this book
    Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2024
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    Thank you Connie, for writing this book. I have been doing genealogical research on the Boone family for quite some time and have read various books about Daniel. However, I really wanted to learn more about Rebecca Bryan and her children and how they lived. As much as Daniel interests me and I feel kinship with him and his love of the wilderness - I am now a bigger fan of his wife. She, Rebecca, was such an amazing woman. I don't know how women like her were able to deal with the cards they were dealt. We are spoiled today and complain about stupid things. I wonder if she complained about her lot in life. I bet not. I'm betting she just did what she had to do. Even with a husband that didn't act very husbandly during their first few decades. Always running off to hunt and not for a few weeks or months - but for years. That would've infuriated me and I'm sure many other women. And then he comes back, gets her pregnant again and leaves once more. He was a piss poor husband. Maybe he loved her and didn't realize this was a horrible way to show it. Or maybe, it was the times and all men were this way; so it was not really that shocking. Now days we ladies don't tolerate being abandoned like that. We just get divorced and go on with our lives and find somebody else. I didn't read the other reviews - but did see one out of the corner of my eye as I scrolled up. It was complaining about the book being outdated. I had to laugh at that one. That person was upset by the use of the word 'Savages' that referred to the Native Americans. But, I hate to tell you - that is part of history. That is what everyone thought back then. The Natives did do savage deeds. They didn't BS around. They wanted the white man gone and I can hardly blame them. We were the interlopers. We were stealing their land. So they acted. And they were brutal. That's just a fact. We don't call anyone a 'savage' today. We are all civilized today in 2024. But to get into the world of Boone, we have to go back in time. We have to get into their world, their clothes, their food, their work, their play. We don't have girls getting married at the age of 14 anymore either. We don't travel around on horseback. We don't have to go hunt down our dinner. I would think anyone smart enough to read a book about historical peoples, would get it. Apparently not. Anyway, this is a book to learn about times passed by. I truly enjoyed it and hated for it to end. As a genealogist I have a huge family tree and I think some of my Bryan's are ones that knew and lived around the Boones. We are stuck at one lady, Mary Bryan. I hope to find out her parents one day and be able to close the book on that. Meanwhile I love reading about the life and times of all these real folks who lived and died during the 1700s/1800s.
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  • Kindle Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
    Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2022
    The story is documented, but the author adds incite to make the story interesting and readable. I have enjoyed all of C. M. Huddleston's work.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read
    Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2025
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    Perfect for the historical fiction buffs! A great take on tales many of us heard growing up. Quick, great read.
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  • Dorothea Jensen, Author
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Fascinating and Detailed Portrayal of Life on the 18th Century Frontier
    Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2020
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    I enjoyed reading this book about the life of Jemima Boone, daughter of Daniel Boone. It gave a very detailed picture of the difficulties faced by 18th century settlers moving into the wilderness on the western side of the Appalachians into what became Kentucky, (Of course, these same difficulties continued to challenge American pioneers throughout the settling of the western frontier.)

    Jemima herself, who narrates the story, has more than a touch of Laura Ingalls Wilder about her: her tale begins with her getting lost in the woods overnight as a little girl. Some of her later adventures could have come straight out of "Little House in the Big Woods."

    This book is not aimed at young children, however, as Wilder’s were. It contains some graphic descriptions of Indian attacks on the settlers, as well as of settler attacks on the people native to Kentucky. This was NOT a win/win situation, to say the least. (It was obvious that the local tribes had legitimate grievances about the British settlers moving into their lands.)

    Jemima’s story also shows very clearly how tough everyday life was for these people. Just as with Wilder’s books, Caintuck Lies Within My Soul seems to accurately portray the homely details of surviving on the 18th/19th century frontier.

    It also conveys a lot about Jemima’s father, Daniel Boone, some of the controversy he engendered, and what an effective leader he was.

    I found it interesting to read about how the American Revolution affected the frontier settlements. Just as the French encouraged the various tribes to attack British settlements on the far edges of the colonies during the French and Indian War, it appears that the British encouraged tribal assaults on British/American settlements during the Revolution.

    P.S. As a sidelight, one other thing I learned from this book was where the name of the town I grew up in came from: Chillicothe, Illinois. Apparently, the name Chillicothe came from the Shawnee Chalahgawtha, one of the five divisions of the Shawnee tribe, and also the name of the town where the members of that division (and its chief) lived. When the Shawnee chief, Black Fish, captured Daniel Boone, he brought Boone (along with other prisoners) to the town called Chillicothe. (Not the Illinois one, of course, but a Chillicothe all the same!)
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  • Deb Glascock
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    Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2024
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    I enjoyed this book very much. I’ve read extensively on both Daniel Boone, and Simon Kenton(Butler) and enjoyed reading another perspective of these stories. Thank You
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  • Kindle Reader
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great blend of history and imagination
    Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2023
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    After reading this book, I had a greater understanding of the lives of pioneers in America. The inquisitive child who experiences hardships prior to the American Revolution is a perspective I had not imagined. The women overcame the challenges of living without their husbands when they were away hunting or fighting enemies. Thank you for proving another look at American History.
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  • Peggy Flack Ake
    5.0 out of 5 stars Jemima Boone's life and Daddy Daniel Boone's life through Jemima's eyes.
    Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2020
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    I loved this book. Daniel Boone is my first cousin, eight times removed. It's not always easy to find books about him, let alone hi is other family members. I would say, of his daughters, Jemima had to be his favorite. The book is very well written and hard to put down. I learned more from this book than the other three I've read about Daniel Boone, which I won't mention, not remembering the names of those books or authors. CM Huddleston has written an excellent book with obviously well researched materials. I am impressed and delighted that I ran across this book.

    You don't have to be a distant relative to really enjoy this book. It's that interesting and good.
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  • Kathie Palazzolo
    1.0 out of 5 stars Way out dated
    Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2022
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    I realize this was written in a different era but could not get used to the references to savages.
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