The Gabriel Horn Author:Felix Holt In the last immense wilderness of western Kentucky, the Jackson Purchase country, the need for men who were really men was great. Big Eli qualified on every count and yet in caring for his motherless son, Little Eli, he displayed a tenderness and gentleness that any mother might envy. — Only a man of Big Eli's size and strength could blow the Gab... more »riel Horn, the hunting horn which played so important a part in the lives of those rugged individuals fighting for existence on one of the last of the American frontiers. It was Little Eli's ambition to grow up to become a man who could make his father proud and to one day take his own turn in blowing the Gabriel Horn.« less