Ballad of Trenchmoutht Taggart - Tapa blanda

Meet Trenchmouth Taggart, a man born and orphaned in 1903, a man nick-named 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, 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 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.

M. Glenn Taylor was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia. He holds graduate degrees in writing from Ohio University and Texas State University. His stories have won awards and been published in Mid-American Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Meridian, and Gulf Coast, among others. Taylor teaches English and fiction writing at Harper College, in suburban Chicago.