Every Friday, Marilyn Knapp Litt, who blogs at ClassicKindle.com, brings us her recommendation of a free classic book to discover (or rediscover) on Kindle. Find more of Marilyn’s recommendations at her blog, ClassicKindle.com, a guide to the best free and inexpensive classic literature for the Kindle. You can also get Marilyn’s blog on Kindle and I recommend that you “Like” the Classic Kindle Facebook page as well so you don’t miss anything. Here’s Marilyn’s post:

Think historical novels are something new?

I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters. There, on the borders of a creek that runs into the Yadkin River, in a cabin that was chinked with red mud, I came into the world a subject of King George the Third, in that part of his realm known as the province of North Carolina.

That is from a 1904 novel by Winston Churchill, a bestselling American novelist, who was 100 years closer to the time of King George than we are today!

[There is a chase to capture a bad guy named Cameron.]

“We’re to scalp the redskins and Cameron . . .”

“Cameron!” shrieked the gentleman. “But that’s the other side, man! Against his Majesty?”

“One side or t’other,” said my father, “’tis all one against Alec Cameron.

” The gentleman looked at my father with something like terror in his eyes. “You’ll never forgive Cameron,” he said.

“I’ll no forgive anybody who does me a wrong,” said my father.

Ahh, a vendetta. As well as the complications of choosing up sides for the coming American Revolution! No wonder this was a popular novel!

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