New York: Viking, 1956. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her epic third novel, and the first in the Beulah quintet, set in 1754 to 1774. 'It was the eve of revolution against the Engish king, and the English, Germans and Irish, the gentry and ex-bondsmen who had claimed land beyond the Alleghanies, were already calling themselves Americans. This fusion of people, this compound of loyalties and hatreds, is the theme of this sweeping story of the Virginia wilderness, land of the Endless Mountains. Map endpapers, 368 pp.