The Captive Witch

by Dale Van Every

Overview

Dale Van Every’s soaring adventure saga of the untamed Kentucky wilderness, a savage woman and the young frontiersman who set out to conquer them both…

They weathered the brutal winter of ‘79 in an isolated cave deep in the Kentucky wilderness: Adam Frane, backwoodsman, rifleman, soldier; and Nita, the proud, passionate woman who had rejected her civilized past for the life of a Cherokee squaw. They shred that cruel season knowing that, when the thaws came, Adam would return to Trace’s Landing and to Cynthia, the faithful young widow who waited for him there; knowing, too, that Nita would try to keep him—with all the savage passion that had earned her the name…

One of Dale Van Every’s most exciting historical novels…filled with the raw emotions and rich adventures of America’s untamed past…

“Fascinating, vivid, real!”—The New York Times

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787208025
Publisher:	Borodino Books
Publication date:	07/31/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	331
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Dale Van Every (July 23, 1896 - May 28, 1976) was an American writer, film producer and studio executive.

Born in Van, Michigan, to Wilbert and Estella (Palmer) Van Every from Petoskey, Michigan, he graduated from a San Bernardino, California-area high school in 1914 and attended Stanford University.

During his junior year, when the United States entered World War I, he enlisted with the Stanford ambulance unit and served overseas for around three years, initially with the ambulance corps, and later as a commissioned officer in the Convois Automobiles.

He graduated from Stanford in 1920 and went to work for the United Press news agency, first in New York, then around 1921, as a bureau chief in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He eventually quit and pursued writing.

With Morris DeHaven Tracy, he wrote a biography of Charles Lindbergh which was published in 1927, the year Lindbergh made his famous solo trip across the Atlantic. He also wrote a number of historical non-fiction works, including a four-volume series on the American frontier experience. His first novel, Telling the World, was made into a 1928 movie of the same name, starring William Haines as a journalist who becomes involved in a murder.

Van Every went to Hollywood to work on the film and began writing screenplays. Along with Marc Connelly and John Lee Mahin, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) for Captains Courageous (1937). He was one of seven Universal Pictures studio executives who worked for Carl Laemmle and his son Julius (Carl Jr.) Laemmle during the golden age of Universal-Laemmle ownership. Later, he also produced some films.

He married fellow Stanford graduate Ellen Mein Calhoun in April 1922. The couple had two children before they divorced in July 1935.

Van Every died in Santa Barbara, California, in 1976, aged 79.