Contents
Foreword
Part 1: Hearts Turned Back to Dixie
1. Unto the Mountain of Nebo
2. Preview
3. An Exile from Erin
4. The Profit of the Earth Is for All
5. The Story of Cotton
6. You-all Come!
7. The Bottomless Pit of Misery
Part II: That Heap o’ Livin’
8. Poor Little House
9. Pussy Wants a Corner
10. My Baby, Sure Enough
11. Outa Heart
12. Poke and Sassafras
13. Emma Lee
14. I See Those Big Eyes Peeping
15. Fleshpots of Egypt
16. All Will Be Well
17. You Forgot the Grease
18. The Ozark Mountain Boys
19. Wild Geese
20. Seen Better Days
21. I Never Mind the Weather When the Wind Don’t Blow
22. Farming in Dixieland
23. Lidy’s Baby
24. Oh, Sailor, Come Ashore
25. Split-Board Sunbonnets
26. Doodle-Bug
27. The Square Dance
28. Grandmother’s Visit
29. Indian Summer
30. Memories
31. Old Hames
32. Arkansas Blues
33. The Flower Garden
34. The Land of Can Happen
35. All-Day Singin’
36. Stringtown
37. Malaria
38. The Cropper Speaks
39. A Jungle in the Temperate Zone
40. The Bargers and Cranes
41. Cypress and Yew
42. Philosophy
43. Rain at Night
44. Harley’s Wife Dies
45. Pink Lemonade
46. The Lady Moon
47. Day After Day
48. No Sloven Can Make Good Butter
49. The Storm Cellar
50. Beautiful Mountains
51. Clouds of Glory
52. Bill Stafford
53. Frankincense and Myrrh
54. New Year’s Letter to a Mother
55. The Missionary Meeting
56. Auld Acquaintance
57. The Waters of Life
58. The Holy Rollers
59. The Slough of Despond
60. Cotton Town
61. Last Letters to a Mother
62. October’s Bright Blue Weather