Other editions of book Back Home: Being the Narrative of Judge Priest and His People

AFTER I came North to live it seemed to me, as probably it has seemed to many Southern born men and women that the Southerner of fiction as met with in the North was generally just that—fiction—and nothing else; that in the main he was a figment of the drama and of the story book; a type that had no just claim on existence and yet a type that was currently accepted as a verity.

Excerpt from Back Home: Being the Narrative of Judge Priest and His PeopleHaving such an aim I wrote what I con ceived to be a series of pictures, out of the life of a town in the western part of Kentucky that part of Kentucky which gave to the nation among others, Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. These pictures 'fell into the form of inter-related stories, and as such were first printed in the Saturday Even ing Post. They are now offered here as a whole.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.