ROUND ANVIL ROCK


_A ROMANCE_


BY

NANCY HUSTON BANKS

AUTHOR OF "OLDFIELD"


1903

[Illustration: "The Angelus was pealing from the bell of the little
log chapel."]


TO MY FATHER


A PREFACE

In weaving a romance round a real rock and through actual events, this
tale has taken no great liberty with fact. It has, indeed, claimed the
freedom of fiction only in drawing certain localities and incidents
somewhat closer together than they were in reality. And it has done this
notably in but three instances: by allowing the Wilderness Road to seem
nearer the Ohio River than it really was; by anticipating the