Observed arrival · 2026-08-31
What the Hills Keep
A historical novel site reconstructing Lawrence County, Missouri, from 1838 to 1885 through newspapers, county records, family histories, and a graveyard.
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The page pairs a forthcoming 126,000-word novel with short archival portraits and links to genealogy, county-history, and grave-record sources. Its historical frame runs from 1838 to 1885, while the featured narrative turns on an 1885 killing in Mount Vernon and the disappearance of a woman’s name from later family records. The opening chapter begins with John Williams Moore arriving in Lawrence County alone at twenty-three after an eight-hundred-mile journey from East Tennessee.
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