There’s little room in this world for a moral man
Meet Early “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 survive the taunts of others. In the hills of southern West Virginia, a boy grows up fast. Trenchmouth sips moonshine, handles snakes, pleasures 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 backwoods of Appalachia’s 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 Taggart’s story, like the best ballads, etches its mark deep upon the memory.
- ISBN13 9780007337736
- Publish Date 7 January 2010
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 21 April 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint The Borough Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk