''Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency'' is an 1835 novel by John P. Kennedy that was a popular seller in its day.Hart, James D
The Popular Book: A History of America's Literary Taste
p. 305 (1951)(July 1835
Literary Notices (book review)
''

The Knickerbocker ''The Knickerbocker'', or ''New-York Monthly Magazine'', was a literary magazine of New York City, founded by Charles Fenno Hoffman in 1833, and published until 1865. Its long-term editor and publisher was Lewis Gaylord Clark, whose "Editor's Ta ...

'', Vol. VI, No. 1, p. 71 The novel was Kennedy's second, and proved to be his most popular. It is a work of historical romance of the

American Revolution The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791. The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies formed independent states that defeated the British in the American Revolut ...

, set in the western mountain areas of the

Carolinas The Carolinas are the U.S. states of North Carolina and South Carolina, considered collectively. They are bordered by Virginia to the north, Tennessee to the west, and Georgia to the southwest. The Atlantic Ocean is to the east. Combining Nort ...

and

Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth ar ...

,Lemon, Armistead
Summary
in ''Documenting the American South'' website, Retrieved 8 December 2014 culminating at the

Battle of Kings Mountain The Battle of Kings Mountain was a military engagement between Patriot and Loyalist militias in South Carolina during the Southern Campaign of the American Revolutionary War, resulting in a decisive victory for the Patriots. The battle took plac ...

.(November 1835)
Critical Notices (book review)
''The Western Monthly Magazine'', p. 350(September 1835)
Miscellaneous Notices (book review)
''The American Quarterly Review'', Vol. 18, pp. 240-42 The primary characters of the novel include

Francis Marion Brigadier-General Francis Marion ( 1732 – February 27, 1795), also known as the Swamp Fox, was an American military officer, planter and politician who served during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. During the Ameri ...

, Banastre Tarleton, General Charles Cornwallis, Horseshoe Robinson (so named because he was originally a blacksmith), Mary Musgrove and her lover John Ramsay, Henry and Mildred Lyndsay (patriots), Mildred's lover Arthur Butler (whom she secretly marries), and Habershaw with his gang of rogues and Indians. Warner, Charles Dudley, ed
Library of the World's Best Literature, Vol. XXX
p.269 (1898)

Play

The novel was adapted for the stage a number of times, but the best known were by Charles Dance in 1836, which starred actor

James Henry Hackett James Henry Hackett (March 15, 1800 – December 28, 1871) was an American actor. Hackett was born in New York City. He entered Columbia College in 1815 but withdrew. He then studied law privately. In 1818, he became a wholesale clerk in a groc ...

, and a version created in 1856 by Clifton W. Tayleure titled ''Horseshoe Robinson, or the Battle of King's Mountain'', which included William Ellis as Robinson and George C. Boniface as Major Arthur Butler.Burt, Daniel S
The Chronology of American Literature
p. 205 (2004)Bank, Rosemarie
Frontier Melodrama
in Ogden, Dunbar H. et al., ''Theatre West: Image and Impact'', pp. 151-52 (1990)Hischak, Thomas S
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
p. 317 (2004)

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