The Frontiersmen

Mary Noailles Murfree, an esteemed American author, wrote under the pseudonym Charles Egbert Craddock during the latter half of the 19th century. Born on January 24, 1850, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Murfree hails from a lineage of local prominence. She developed an early proclivity for literature, propelled by her enrollment in the Chegary Institute, a Philadelphia finishing school where she nurt...