Look to the Mountain by Cannon Jr., LeGrand - 1942

New York.: Henry Holt and Company., 1942. Book-of-the-Month Club edition w/ flyer inserted.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Spine titles rubbed. Else near fine. Front end paper tucked inside.. 1 Book Club Edition. Gray cloth over boards. White front graphic, tree w/ mountain line art, also on title page. 547 p. Pen&Ink map frontispiece. First published 1942. The classic story of 2 young people, 19 and 16, expecting their first child, and of poor circumstances from Kettleford (Bedford), New Hampshire, in 1769. They had married and traveled by canoe and foot northward to the wilderness of Tamworth, to homestead with only distant neighbors and few tools. Simply told in the dialect of the era, their tale is of New England pioneers, turning seasons, and transformation. By 1777, their recognition of independence from England is clear. For decades, this novel was required reading in many New Hampshire high schools. The B.O.M.C. pamphlet review was authored by Dorothy Canfield (Fisher).