He was not quite certain yet that Jim Asberry had murdered his father, but he knew that Asberry was one of the coterie of "killers" who took their blood hire from Purvy, and he knew that Asberry had sworn to "git" him. To sit in the same car with the...
Governor could not erase. A sunken grave bore testimony in a steep mountainside burial-ground back in Bloody Breathitt, where dead weed stalks rattled and tangled ropes of fox-grapes bore their fruit in due season. However, even the name of Newt Spoo...
A native of Kentucky, Charles Neville Buck grew up near Lexington in the late 1800s. Well-educated, Buck held a Bachelor of Arts and a law degree from the University of Louisville. He also attended the Cincinnati Academy of Arts, and became a cartoon...
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Charles Neville Buck (1879-1930) was the author of The Key to Yesterday (1910), The Lighted Match (1911), The Portal of Dreams (1912), The Call of the Cumberlands (1913), The Battle Cry (1914), The Code of the Mountains (1915), Destiny (1916), The Ty...
A native of Kentucky, Charles Neville Buck grew up near Lexington in the late 1800s. Well-educated, Buck held a Bachelor of Arts and a law degree from the University of Louisville. He also attended the Cincinnati Academy of Arts, and became a cartoon...
Between the smoke-darkened walls of the mountain cabin still murmured the last echoes of the pistol's bellowing, and it seemed a voice of everlasting duration to the shock-sickened nerves of those within. First it had thundered with the deafening exa...
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They were types in embryo, but of course they did not know it. No more would a grain of wheat and a poppy seed dropping side-by-side in a fallow place reflect upon their destinies, though one might typify a working world's dependence for bread; the o...
A creaking complaint of loose and rattling boards rose under the old mountaineer's brogans as he stepped from the threshold to the porch. His eyes, searching the wooded mountain-side, held at first only that penetration which born woodsmen share with...
Brooding at one of the front desks, sat a boy, slender and undersized for his thirteen years. The ill-fitting crudity of his neatly patched clothes gave him a certain uniformity with his fellows, yet left him as unlike them as all things else could c...
Blake. After A Troubled Upbringing, He Found Himself On The Streets. It Seemed Like His Luck Could Be Turning Around When A Charming Girl Invited Him To Stay With Her And Her Two Pleasant Sisters At Their Large, Comfortable House. After A Long Journe...