The Balm of Gilead Tree and Other Stories

Published by: Gnomon Press (Paperback 1999)
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Published by: Gnomon Press (Hardcover 1999)

Included stories:

The Tracks of Chief de Soto

Poinsett's Bridge

Kuykendall's Gold

Little Willie

A Brightness New & Welcoming

Pisgah

Dark Corner

1916 Flood

Murals

The Welcome

Tailgunner

Death Crown

The Ratchet

Sleepy Gap

The Bullnoser

A Taxpayer & A Citizen

The Balm of Gilead Tree

Praise for Robert Morgan:

Robert Morgan's lyric mountain language is equal to the epic sweep of history, to the grandeur of the land itself.

— Lee Smith

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Robert Morgan's writing is... clear and simple, yet it possesses a luminous poetic quality, a rough beauty hewn from the countyside and from old, forgotten ways.

— The Philadelphia Inquirer

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[Robert Morgan] is a seasoned author whose prose reads like poetry and whose nonfiction reads like novels... His books teach and inspire. He gives the past, with all its heroes and villains, a new life, if not a new purpose.

— Southern Literary Review

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