Philip Nolan, an officer in the United States Army, is tried as part of the Aaron Burr conspiracy and is convicted to life on a naval vessel where he stays for 57 years.

After running away from home, Angel Woolsack, a preacher's son, settles on the rough frontier of West Florida where he is swept up in a violent new world as would-be revolutionaries plot to break away from the young United States and create a new country under the leadership of renegade Aaron Burr. "The Blood of Heaven is the story of Angel Woolsack, a preacher's son, who flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father, falls in with a charismatic...

In Hales' 1897 edition of "The Man Without a Country" he includes a fascinating introduction in which he explains the details of his original ideas for writing the bestseller and the story of its initial publication in The Atlantic. It is this introduction along with the story itself that has been republished here for the interested reader. In beginning his introduction Hale writes: "The publisher of this edition of THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY asks...