420 HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS
winner in 1930 and sire of Omaha, which won the Kentucky Derby in
1935, and later won the Preakness, Belmont Stakes, and othenraces. 1
Other famous Claiborne horses are Galahad III, Gallant Sir, Diavolo, j
Stimulus, Alcazar, EHard 'élglg, §eigh_Cc311nt,3_ap1;i Fir Andfegp F I ]
A11‘sK11.L ARM m. 1S e 1r p ace o o n ox, r. y
(lgdlg-&>19), author of The’Trail,of the Lonesome Iiine, The Little (
Shepherd of Kingdom Come, and other Kentucky stories. The house 1
in which he was born has been destroyed by fire. .
john Fox, jr., the son of a schoolmaster, entered Transylvania Uni- 4
versity in 1878 when he was only 15. After two years he transferred (
to Harvard from which he was graduated in 1883, the youngest man in y
his class. He joined the staff of the New York Sun and later entered ;
Columbia Law School, but soon abandoned law and joined the staff of E
the New York Times. After a few months, illness compelled him to ;
move to the Sou . 2
He joined his father and brother in a mining venture in the Cum- (
berland Mountains, where he later taught school for a time. He began
his literary career with the Story, “A Mountain Eur0pa," which ap- E
peared in the Century of September and October 1892. It was fol- 4
lowed by "On Hell-fer-Sartain Creek," published in Harper’s Weekly, 1
November 24, 1894. When the Spanish-American War was declared, l
. Fox went to Cuba as a Rough Rider, but left the Army to_act as cor- 1
respondent for Harper'.; Weekly. His experiences were written into Z
his f1rst long novel, Crittenden (1900). The Little Shepherd of King- I
dom Come (1903), The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908), and other l
stories followed. In 1909 he married Fritzi Scheff, the light opera star,  
from whom he was later divorced. He died of pneumonia on july 8,
1919, at Big Stone Gap, Virginia, where he had lived for several years. '
He was buried at Paris, Kentucky.
The road crosses a small, whitewashed Covnnnn Bnrnon, 9 m., over 4
Stoner Creek, the last of three such bridges met in a five-mile course, `
and leaves behind the wide, fairly open land with a thin march of trees ‘
against the distant low horizon. Moderate but repeated rolls and swells l
run back from the highway across large pasture fields and small corn `
and tobacco patches. Few trees are seen, but fences of all kinds- I
stone, board, and rail—mark off the uneven fields for grazing cattle ·
and sheep. Livestock farming is good in this area, and substantial 3
modern houses are met along the way.
WINCHESTER, 17.2 m. (981 alt., 8,233 pop.) (see Tour 16), is at 1
the junction with US 60 (see Tour 16) and State 15 ( see Tour 2). ' j
At 24.2 rn. is the junction with a lane.
Right on this lane to the little stone Pizovmznca Crrtmcn, 0.5 m., in constant use
since it was built about 1787; this is one of the oldest Protestant church buildings
west of the Alleghenies. It was built by members of the body known as the Tray-
eling Baptist Church, who came to Kentucky from Spotsylvania County, Virginia,
in 1781, to escape the church laws of Virginia (see Tour 3). It was turned over
to Negro Baptists during the middle of the nineteenth century.