SOURCE: "With the Pioneers," in The New York Times Book Review, May 28, 1904, p. 359.

In the following essay, the reviewer provides a favorable evaluation of The Frontiersmen.

With a large class of novel readers there is always a keen sympathy with the men and women who blazed the trail on the frontier; those who defended their homesteads and stockades against fierce American Indians. . . . These readers prefer reminiscences of homely and adventurous life to the conventional society novel. Among such, Charles Egbert Craddock has made the pioneers in the frontier region that is now Tennessee a field peculiarly her own. Her newest book [The Frontiersmen] deals with persons and scenes with which all her readers are familiar in the Great Smoky Mountains and the Blue Lick Springs. There are eight stories about them in their log cabins, buckskin clothes and primitive forts. Each story holds the genuinely American flavor of...