Gerald had lived in Savannah long enough to acquire a viewpoint of the Coast��that all of the rest of the state was backwoods, with an Indian lurkin ...
Gerald, his mind never free of the thought of owning a plantation of his own, arranged an introduction, and his interest grew as the stranger told how ...
He had gone up there and established a plantation; but, now the house had burned down, he was tired of the accursed place and would be most happy to g ...
He had been one of the winners in the land lottery conducted by the State to divide up the vast area in middle Georgia, ceded by the Indians the year ...
Then the hand of Fate and a hand of poker combined to give him the plantation which he afterwards called Tara, and at the same time moved him out of t ...
And here in this new country, safe from the twin perils of the land he had left��taxation that ate up crops and barns and the ever-present threat of ...