Donald McCaig's book "Rhett Butler's People", authorized by Margaret Mitchell heirs a background of the novel "Gone with the wind" and partly its continuation has come forward yesterday in USA.Rhett Butler's story in this novel begins with 12 years before his acquaintance with Scarlett O'Hara. In "Rhett Butler's People" Rhett quarrels with his father, the owner of rice plantations, keep company with slaves and white poor men, that is with despised by rich south people. Rhett's and Scarlett O'Hara's relationships at McCaig have turned out the same wild at Mitchell.
McCaig's novel is the third "branch" from the original novel "Gone with the wind".