"Follows thirteen-year-old Lizzy's adventures in the diverse and increasingly restrictive society of Piedmont North Carolina in the 1760s. Nuggets of recognition will engage twenty-first century readers and connect them with the backcountry world of Lizzy and her friends. Their stories display everyday habits, folk knowledge and stories, religious identities, experiences with fosterage and apprenticeship, and skills such as papermaking, guiding a pack line of horses across a stream, and using snakes to kill bad guys. Readers of The red dog are likely to come away understanding the conflicts that produced the Regulator Movement, and they may gain insights on how practices of white supremacy grew during Lizzy's lifetime"--Page 4 of cover.