Dorothy Nickerson

The Witch of Sawtooth Mountain Dorothy Nickerson

"There ain''t no use for ye to get het up," the old woman continued as she spit tobacco juice on the ground. "Ye ain''t the first do-gooders thet has tried to take over my hollers. I done sent them packing, and ye might as well git ready to go too!" As the new wife of a preacher assigned to his first church in the backwoods of the Ozark Mountains, Ann Nilson finds herself torn between the superstitions, beliefs, and poverty of the people around her/ memories of her life in Denver; and the threats of her former lover. Discover the quiet beauty and strength of the Ozark''s hill people in this haunting tale of one woman''s struggle for love and self-esteem in the early 1920s.