Pike County Ballads

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | 462 words | Copyright

Pike County Ballads, dialect poems by John Hay, published in 1871. They show an appreciation of the candor, crudeness, and self‐reliance of frontiersmen in Pike County, Ill., during the 1860s, and include Jim Bludso, the story of a Mississippi steamboat engineer who is burned to death while saving his passengers from a fire, and Little Breeches, about the four‐year‐old son of a Pike man, who is miraculously rescued from a wagon accident.

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