The Pecks of Mossy Creek series highlights Adam Peck, Sr. and his wife Elizabeth (Sharkey) Peck, the founding family of Mossy Creek (now Jefferson City), Tennessee and the stories and writings of their ancestors and descendants.

Current Titles Include:

Ada's Journal and Emma's Letters: The Civil War Era Journal and Letters of Emma Peck

Charley's Novel: Mary Anderson and Peacock the Mineralogist, the Bad Luck of a Young Southern Girl

Sawbones: The Life and Times of Dr. Isham Talbot Peck (1811-1887), Volumes I & II

The first book in The Pecks of Mossy Creek series is Ada's Journal and Emma's Letters. 

Summary: Ada’s Journal is a travel and personal journal of Ada Louise Peck (1853-1859) written by her mother Emma Peck in pre-Civil War East Tennessee and Henderson Plantation in Louisiana. Emma’s Letters includes 33 transcribed handwritten letters describing life before, during, and after the Civil War in Tennessee and Louisiana. 

The second book in The Pecks of Mossy Creek series is Charley's Novel.

Summary: Professor Charles T. Peck, great-grandson of Adam Peck, Sr., and Ada's brother, wrote an epic Southern novel in April 1879 during his "idle hours." This novel, Mary Anderson and Peacock the Mineralogist: The Bad Luck of a Young Southern Girl, is captivating. It is the story of a comfortable Southern family, the Andersons, and their blossoming daughters. The lure of a profitable marriage to the handsome Mr. Peacock proves enticing enough for Mr. Anderson to give his blessing for this hasty union. But tragedy awaits, not only for Mary, but for everyone who comes in contact with the silver-tongued Mr. Peacock...

The third and fourth books in the Pecks of Mossy Creek series are Sawbones: Volumes I & II.

Summary: Adam Peck's first grandson by Judge Jacob Peck (from Virginia) and Sophia Talbott (from Kentucky), Isham was born in 1811 and died in 1887. Sawbones is his story, including his biography and writings. From 1874-1886 a total of 41 articles were written by him, to him, or about him using the pen name "Sawbones." He wrote for the Spirit of the Times newspaper, and later The Morristown Gazette. He was the primary person who exposed the Smoky Mountain Volcano hoax of 1874, and his articles were carried by newspapers across the country. He continued to write and covered an extremely wide variety of topics, including: Mossy Creek (Jefferson City) Civil War history, 19th century medicine, early Methodism and circuit riding preachers, Tennessee geography, geology, slavery, farming, reconstruction, politics, the Whig party, history of dueling in Vicksburg, D. L. Moody and Ira Sankey, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and Elizabeth Tilton Affair, and much more. Sawbones Volume I analyzes his first 21 articles, and Volume II the last 18. Click on the link above to learn more or the button below to ORDER now.

Cross Mountain Books is a proud supporter of the Mossy Creek Foundation. A portion of the proceeds from each copy sold of Ada's Journal and Emma's Letters and Charley's Novel will be donated to the Mossy Creek Foundation in its efforts to revitalize the Historic Mossy Creek District in Jefferson City, TN. Learn more about this great project by visiting mossycreekfoundation.org.