![]() He is married, and though he had children, he has lost them to a number of diseases. Percy Northumberland Driscoll is the Judge's younger brother. While he and his wife are nearly happy, they remain childless and therefore are unable to enjoy absolute bliss. He is descended from the First Families of old Virginia, and is fiercely proud of this ancestry. ![]() York Leicester Driscoll is forty years old, county judge, and the town's chief citizen. And, as it is seated on the Mississippi River, the town is only a half-day's journey to the bustling city of St. ![]() A rich, slave-worked backcountry of grain and pork provide the sleepy town with its economic sustenance. It is a young town - only fifty years old - but it is growing. When the novel opens, the year is 1830 and we are introduced to the small Missouri town of Dawson's Landing. ![]()
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