The Right of the Strongest
by Frances Nimmo Greeneliterary work· published 1913
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The Right of the Strongest is a novel by Frances Nimmo Greene, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1913. It was adapted into a film of the same name. Mary Elizabeth Dale is a young school teacher who has been educated by a philanthropist on the understanding that she go back to her people in the mountains of Alabama and devote her life to them. John Marshall, a self-willed, clear-sighted financier, comes to the mountain community where Mary Elizabeth is teaching for the purpose of acquiring land for a money making project. The story is set in a rugged mountain-rimmed valley of Alabama. It is a story of mountain feuds, and of a modern business scheme that involved buying up the squatters' patches of land that belong by right only to the strongest.
Adaptations (1)
The Right of the Strongest was adapted into a 1924 film.
The Right of the Strongest1924 · film · dir. Edgar Lewis · IMDb ↗John Marshall, young engineer, goes to Bullis Valley in the Alabama hills to secure lands for a big power project. The hill folks think he is a revenue spy and plans are laid against his life.
