The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come Author:John Fox Jr. Chad Buford, an orphan from the Cumberland Mountains, is befriended by the aristocratic Majot Calvin Buford of the Kentucky Bluegrass region, and begins a new life as "Chadwick Buford, Gentleman." But the Civil War begins, and Chad, like many other Kentuckians, faces a moral dilemma. Concluding that he is "first, last and all the ... more »time, simply American," Chad casts his lot with the Union.
Written 35 years after the Civil War, The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come is more than a moving story of a Kentucky mountain boy who fights to save the Union. Even the Civil War itself is but an epic stage for the novel's main business -- the testing and maturation of a hero as American as Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer.
An immediate best seller when it was published in 1903, The Little Shepherd of Kindom Come has mantained it perennial appeal through numerous editions, a successful stage adaption, a silent movie, and a 1961 family film that stressed its Civil War love story.« less