Title: The choiring of the trees
First published: 1991
Description: Corrupt politicians of Stay More, Arkansas, frame Nail Chism for rape and sentence him to death in 1914, while Viridis Monday, an artist trained in Paris, draws trial sketches and decides that Chism is not guilty.
Subjects: Capital punishment, Fiction, Judicial error, Mountain life, Trials (Rape), Fiction, historical, general
Places: Arkansas, Ozark Mountains
LC classification: PS3558.A6242 C5 1991