""A Champion Of The Foothills"" is a novel written by Lewis Edwin Theiss. The story is set in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in the early 1900s. The protagonist, Tom, is a young man who dreams of becoming a champion wrestler. He trains hard and competes in local matches, but his dreams are put on hold when he falls in love with a girl named Mary. Tom and Mary's love story is complicated by the fact that Mary's father is a wealthy landowner...