Hounds on the Mountain No Friends of Coal

No Friends of Coal

and examples of Still's use of the "sayings" in poetry and prose

Narrated by a young boy (a cousin of the narrator of Still's classic novel River of Earth)

fears what will happen the more entrenched they become in fundamentalist thinking and finds herself in a fight to save the people she loves from self-destruction

Hounds on the Mountain No Friends of CoalFirst published in 1937, Hounds on the Mountain evokes James Still's personal experiences of eastern Kentucky through reflective folk poems describing Appalachian mountain life from birth through death. Written during the Great Depression, the collection emphasizes a collective reliance on the earth and the primacy of nature that Still observed from the seclusion of his thirty acre home in Knott County, Kentucky. Still, who became known as the "Dean