The Balm of Gilead Tree and Other Stories

Published by:
Gnomon Press (Paperback 1999)
The Balm of Gilead Tree at Amazon
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 SmithRobert 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[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