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Jesse Stuart Short Stories

This document provides summaries of several short story collections and individual works by American author Jesse Stuart. It outlines the table of contents and stories/poems included in each collection. The summaries focus on highlighting the various parts and sections of each collection and listing the individual stories, poems, and essays included. Over 30 separate works by Stuart are summarized in 3 sentences or less detailing their contents.

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Jesse Stuart Short Stories

This document provides summaries of several short story collections and individual works by American author Jesse Stuart. It outlines the table of contents and stories/poems included in each collection. The summaries focus on highlighting the various parts and sections of each collection and listing the individual stories, poems, and essays included. Over 30 separate works by Stuart are summarized in 3 sentences or less detailing their contents.

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Jesse Stuart - Short Story Collections

The Best-Loved Short Stories


Selected and with Commentary by H. Edward Richardson
Introduction by Jerry A. Herndon
Part 1 – Out of Mountain Shadows: Growing Up in W-Hollow
The Storm
Nest Egg
Dark Water
Uncle Fonse Laughed
Savings the Bees

Part 2 – The Old People


A Land Beyond the River
Men of the Mountains
Sunday Afternoon Hanging
Sylvania is Dead
The Farm for Sale

Part 3 – Youth
Split Cherry Tree
The Slipover Sweater
New-Ground Corn
Eustacia
How to Thread A Needle

Part 4 – The “Strange and Powerful” Characters of W-Hollow


Beyond the News
In Still Hollow
Woman in the House
Death Has Two Good Eyes
Toes
Old Op and the Devil
Word and the Flesh
Betwixt Life and Death
Yoked for Like

Part 5 – The Human Comedy


Hair
Hot-Collared Mule
Rain on Tanyard Hollow
Hurdie’s Night Out
Love in the Spring

Part 6 – Epiphany
Walk in the Moon Shadows
Another April

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Dawn of Remembered Spring
Clearing in the Sky
Thanksgiving Hunter
This is the Place

Clearing in the Sky & Other Stories


Foreword by Ruel E. Foster
(published by the University Press of Kentucky)
The Champion
To Market, To Market
Clearing in the Sky
When Mountain Men Make Peace
Fight Number Twenty-Five
No Petty thief
The Slipover Sweater
Thirty-two Votes Before Breakfast
Testimony of Trees
Horse-trading Trembles
Road Number One
Coming Down the Mountain
Land of Our Enemies
No Hero
Competition at Slush Creek
Governor Warburton’s Right-hand Man
The Anglo-Saxons of Auxierville
Evidence is High Proof
Battle with the Bees
Hot-collared Mule
Old Gore

Come Back to the Farm


Introduction by John H Spurlock
Appalachian Patriarch
Why Menifee Wasn’t Our Country
Give Charlie a Little Time
Maybelle’s First-Born
Victory and the Dream
Wild Plums
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Builders and the Dream
Little Giant
The Highest Bidder
A Pilgrim Out in Space
The Twelve-Pole Road
Lost Land of Youth
Holiday With the Larks

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Uncle Mel Comes to the Aid of His Clan
Eighty-one Summers

Come Gentle Spring


Introduction by Danny L. Miller
Come Gentle Spring
Two Worlds
The Weakling
A Christmas Present for Uncle Bob
The Old Law Wasn’t Strong Enough
Love in the Spring
The Water Penalty
Our Wiff and Daniel Boone
Pa’s a Man’s Man All Right
Mad Davids and a Mechanical Goliath
The Last Round Up
A Land Beyond the River
Powderjay’s Red Hen
Fast-Train Ike
Uncle Fonse Laughed
Does the Army Always Get Its Man?
Seventy-Six Days
The Rainy Day at the Big Lost Creek
The War and Cousin Lum
King of the Hills

Dawn of Remembered Spring


(published by McGraw-Hill Book Company)
 Stories
Dawn of Remembered Spring
Old Ben
The Old Are Valiant
Grandpa Birdwell’s Last Battle
Yoked for Life
Love
Word and the Flesh
Disputing Warriors
Time of the Cottonmouth Winds
The Usurper of Beauty Ridge
Death for Two
The Blacksnake’s Operation
Confrontation
Old Jackson Was My Teacher
A Thousand Years is a Long Time

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Poems
Dawn
The Poet Speaks to Cold-Blooded Snake
The Poet Speaks to Living Things
Bull Blacksnake Speaks of Love and Fear
Copperhead Speaks
Bull Blacksnake Defends His Race
Miss Blacksnake Speaks
Copperhead Speaks of Love and Enemies
Blacksnake Eavesdrops the Grass
Bull Blacksnake Speaks of Final Victory
Finale of the Whispering Grass

Head o’ W-Hollow
Foreword by Robert Penn Warren
(published by The University Press of Kentucky)
Head o’ W-Hollow
300 Acres of Elbow Room
Uncle Casper
Henpecked
Woman in the House
Dark Winter
Uncle Jeff
Snake Teeth
Mountain Poorhouse
Accidental Death
Word and the Flesh
Battle Keaton Dies
A Bad Disease
The Bellin of the Bride
Toes
Red Jacket: The Knockin Spirit
One of the Lost Tribe
The Senator is Dead
A Yard of String
Governor of Kentucky
Log Shacks and Lonesome Waters

A Jesse Stuart Reader


Introduction by Max Bogart
Commentary and Study Questions by Ella DeMers
 Short Stories
Nest Egg
The Thing You Love

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Uncle Jeff Had a Way
No Hero
Rain on Tanyard Hollow
Battle With the Bees
Ezra Alcorn and April
Wild Plums
The Great Cherokee Bill
The Moon Child from Wolfe Creek
This Farm For Sale
As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap
No Petty Thief
Miss Anna’s Asleep
Old Op and the Devil
A Ribbon for Baldy
Tradelast
Fight Number Twenty-Five

 Biography
From God’s Oddling
The Earth Poet
Sounds on the Wind
Testimony of Trees
Clearing in the Sky

From The Thread That Runs So True


The Fight With Guy Hawkins
The Contest with Landsburgh High School

From The Year of My Rebirth


I Will Not Die
The Summing Up

 Poetry
A Farmer Singing
Time for a Rhyme
Land Scroll
This Land is Mine
Upon This High Hill
Our Heritage
Return
Early Autumn
Go, Dance Tonight
Kyon Murray
Hard Luck
Who Built America?

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Their Ancient Love is Written in This Dust
Gone Today
Free Ride
School Master, Once
Song
The Last Leave Home
A Song for Naomi
Parent Ties
Admonition to a Child
Time Passes
Hold April
Lullaby
Land Where the Honey-colored Wind is Fair
Why Ever Grieve?

Land of the Honey-Colored Wind


Out of Print; copies available only as collectibles
Stories
Nest Egg
Battle With the Bees
This Farm for Sale
As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap
The Slipover Sweater
Rain on Tanyard Hollow
Spring Victory
Hot-Collared Mule
Old Dick
Walk in the Moon Shadows
Another April
Clearing in the Sky

Poems
Their Ancient Love is Written in This Dust
Who Built America?
For Mitchell Stuart
Her Work is Done
Robert Diesel
April is Spirit
Trees Live Again
These Hills I Love
Clay From the heart of It
A Tree That Men Will Slay
Land Where the Honey-Colored Wind is Fair
The Time of Frost

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This is the Place
Of Dead Leaves
Come Gentle Snow
The Snow That Lies Patched
Ides of March
Why Ever Grieve?
The Wind’s Triumphant Note
Hold April
Be in a Joyful Mood
April Night and the Singing Winds
Spring Song
Their Eyes Have Seen
Our Heritage

Lost Sandstone and Lonely Skies and Other Essays


(published by Archer Editions Press)
I Live in Three Houses
When Heart and Death Lie Down Together in a Lonely Land
The Colors Winter Wears
In Moments of Reflection
Lost Sandstone and Lonely Skies
Are We a Nation of Digits?
Needed . . . A National Cleanup Day!
Constructionists versus Destructionists
The People I Meet
The Simple Joys
The Poetry of the Nile
A New Garden of Eden?
The Simple Joys of Snow
Conscientious Acceptors
Manifest Destiny
Snowstorm: A Downfall of Beautiful Physical Poetry
The Sun’s Undoing
Winds
The Color of the Storm
The Hummingbird in the Garden

Men of the Mountains


Foreword by H. Edward Richardson
(published by The University Press of Kentucky)
The Men of the Mountains
The People Choose
For the Love of Brass
New-ground Corn
One of God’s Oddlings
Hell’s Acre

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The Basket Dinner
Moonin’ Round the Mountain
Eyes of an Eagle
The Blue Tick Pig
Wilburn
Fern
Betwixt Life and Death
Saving the Bees
Hair
Vacation in Hell
Whip-Poor-Willie
Six Sugar Maples on the Hill
This is the Place
Love
Uncle John, the Baptist

New Harvest
Foreword by David R. Palmore
Introduction by Jesse Stuart
The Accident
Big Charlie Had a Party
Brother-in-Law, Eif Tongs
Catalogue Girl
Clothes Make the Man
The Cousins
Crabgrass
Death Comes to Nicodemous
First Journey to the Clan
From the Mountains of Pike
The Guests in King Arthur’s Court
I Can Climb Higher Than You
Nine Bean Rows
Not Without Guns
The Red Hats of Plum Fork
Seth Winters
Sour Grapes
Sunday Morning on Sulphur Creek
Two Sides of the Fence
Uncle Sam Married an Angel
A Witness for Noonie Paw
A Woman of Stature

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Seven by Jesse
Foreword by James M. Gifford
Introduction by Ronald L. Baker
Neighbors in the Night
The Reason
Night of Love
He Saw the Sun this Time
More Fun Than a Circus
The Usurper of Beauty Ridge
The Biscuit Maker

Stories by Jesse Stuart


Introduction by David R. Palmore
Uncle Jeff and the Family Pride
Lady
Alec’s Cabin
Another Thanksgiving
Grandpa
Poems

Tales From the Plum Grove Hills


Preface by James M. Gifford
Introduction by Charles M. Daughaday
Another April
The Sanctuary Desolated
Whose Land is this?
My Father is an Educated man
Brothers
Thanksgiving Hunter
The Storm
I Remember Mollie
Fitified Man
Grandpa’s Birdwell’s Last Battle
Bury Your Dead
Death Has Two Good Eyes
Weep No More, My Lady
Rain on Tanyard Hollow
Another Hanging
Spring Victory
The Freeing of Jason Whiteapple
Dawn of Remembered Spring
Nest Egg
Frog-Trouncin’ Contest

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32 Votes Before Breakfast
(published by McGraw-Hill Book Company)
Uncle Casper
A Little Piece of Striped Candy-colored String
The Moonshine War
Rothwell Periwinkle Was My Teacher
The Senator is Dead
The Governor of Kentucky
Love Beyond the Law
As the People Choose
Huckleberry’s Diehards
One of the Lost Tribe
Uncle Felix and the Party Emblem
The Election
My Brother Eric
The Judge Takes a Holiday
Law in Poppie’s Vest Pocket
The Voting Goodlaws
Love and the Law
Sweetbird for Sheriff
32 Votes Before Breakfast
Peace and the Right Party

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