Preface

   The author has cleverly interwoven a tale
of absorbing heart interest with a graphically
depicted view of the present Tobacco Troubles
in Kentucky and the exciting times when the
people formed into bands known as THE
NIGHT RIDERS, to protest against what they
considered the unjust tax of the Toll Gale
System.  These protests were of a strenuous
nature, not unlike those of the tobacco-growing
section today, and as the characters in the
story are real, live beings, who did things,
the reader's interest never flags.
                       THE PUBLISHERS.