Showing The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart by Glenn Taylor

Pub Date: 2009-06-16 Pages: 288 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins US Meet Trenchmouth Taggart. a man born and orphaned in 1903. a man nicknamed for his lifelong oral affliction His boyhood is shaped by the Widow Dorsett. a strong. mountain woman who teaches him to hunt and to survive the taunts of others. In the hills of southern West Virginia. a boy grows up fast. Trenchmouth sips moonshine. handles snakes. pleases women. and masters the rifle-a skill that lands him in the middle of the West Virginia coal wars. A teenaged union sniper. Trenchmouth is exiled to the back-woods of Appalachias foothills. where he spends his years running from the past. But trouble will sniff a man down. and an outlaw will eventually run home. Here Trenchmouth Taggarts story. like the best ballads. etches its mark deep upon the memory.