James Still - The Wolfpen Notebooks: A Record of Appalachian Life

1. Nancy Hanks: A Playlet in Three Acts. Harrogate, Tenn.: Lincoln Memorial University, 1929. Unpublished. Presented at Lexington Ky., Middlesboro, Ky., and Harrogate, Tenn., May-July 1929.

2. Place Names in the Cumberland Mountains. American Speech 5, no. 2 (December 1929); 113. [Article]

3. Christian Names in the Cumberlands. American Speech 5, no. 4 (April 1930): 306-7. [Article]

4. The Function of Dreams and Visions in the Middle English Romances. M.A. Thesis, Vanderbilt University, 1930. Unpublished.

5. Dreams. Arcadian Magazine 1, no. 3 (April 1931): 23. [Poem]

6. A Burned Tree Speaks. Boy's Life 21, no. 1 (October 1931): 61. [Poem]

7. Horse Swapping Court. Our Dumb Animals 66 (January 1933): 7. [Article]

8. Answer. Kaleidograph 7, no. 2 (June 1935): 13. [Poem]

9. Mountain Dulcimer. Virginia Quarterly Review 11 (July 1935): 396. [Poem]. Reprinted in Literary Digest, 27 July 1935, p. 28; and as Dulcimer in Mountain Life and Work 39, no. 2 (Summer 1965): 15.

10. Horse Swapping on Troublesome Creek. Saturday Review of Literature 12, no. 11 (13 July 1935): 10. [Poem]

11. These Goodly Things. The Better Home 1, no. 3 (July-August-September 1935): 15. [Short story]

12. Wilderness. Kaleidograph 7, no. 5 (September 1935: 8. [Poem]

13. Dulcimer. Mountain Life and Work 11, no. 3 (October 1935): 10. [Poem]

14. Mountain Fox Hunt. Poetry 47, no. 1 (October 1935): 12. Reprinted in Literary Digest, 5 October 1935, p. 25. [Poem]

15. Mountain Infare. Poetry 47, no. 1 (October 1935): 13. [Poem]

16. When the Dulcimers Are Gone. Poetry 47, no. 1 (October 1935): 14. [Poem]

17. Mountain Twilight. Sewanee Review 43, no. 4 (October-December 1935): 435. [Poem]

18. Mountain Heritage. New Republic 85 (18 December 1935) : 170. [Poem]. Set to music by Harvey O. Davis for the Rafinesque Bicentennial Celebration, Transylvania College, Lexington, Ky., 22 October 1983. Choir directed by Harvey O. Davis.

19. Death on the Mountain. Mountain Life and Work, 11, no. 4 (January 1936): 15 [Poem]

20. Shield of the Hills. Mountain Life and Work 1, no. 4 (January 1936): 15. [Poem]

21. Mountain Men: (1) Uncle Ambrose, (2) Clabe Mott. Kaleidograph 7, no. 9 (January 1936); 9. [Two poems]

22. The Hill-Born. Sewanee Review 44, no. 1 (January-March 1936): 99. [Poem]

23. Aftergrass. Kaleidograph 7, no. 10 (February 1936): 6. [Poem]

24. Child in the Hills. Atlantic 157, no. 2 (February 1936) : 226. [Poem]

25. Passenger Pigeons. New York Times, 5 February 1936, p. 18. [Poem]

26. Mountain Farm. The Household 36, no. 3 (March 1936): 58. [Poem]

27. Fox Hunt on Defeated Creek. Frontier and Midland 16, no. 3 (Spring 1936): 186. [Poem]

28. Spring Foal. Mountain Life and Work 13, no. 1 (April 1936): 11. Reprinted as Foal in Wind 2, no. 7 (Spring 1973): 3; and as a limited edition broadside, King Library Press, University of Kentucky, July 1982.

29. Black Bread. Publications of the Poetry Society of Florida, 1936, 1 page. [Poem]

30. On Troublesome Creek. Sewanee Review 44, no. 2 (April-June 1936): 163. [Poem]

31. Interval. The Skyline [Colorado], 1936, 1 page. [Poem]

32. All Their Ways Are Dark. Atlantic 157, no. 6 (June 1936): 708-12. [Short story]

33. Graveyard in the Hills. Atlantic 158, no. 1 (July 1936): 93. [Poem]

34. Tracks on Stone. The Household 36, no. 7 (July 1936): 25. [Poem]

35. Mountain Coal Town. Sewanee Review 44, no. 3 (July-September 1936): 319. [Poem]

36. Fiddlers' Convention on Troublesome Creek. New York Herald Tribune, 13 July 1936, in The Conning Tower column. [Poem]

37. Horse Doctor. Frontier and Midland 17, no. 1 (Autumn 1936): 25-28. [Short story]

38. Journey Beyond the Hills. Yale Review 26, no. 1 (Autumn 1936): 133.

39. Rain on the Cumberlands. Kaleidograph 8 (October 1936) : 9. [Poem]

40. One Leg Gone to Judgment. Mountain Life and Work 12, no. 3 (October 1936): 9-10. [Short story]

41. Dance on Pushback Mountain. Esquire 6, no. 4 (October 1936): 65. [Poem]

42. A Bell on Troublesome Creek. The Better Home 2, no. 4 (October-November-December 1936): 3. [Short story]

43. Death in the Forest. Saturday Review of Literature 14, no. 26 (24 October 1936): 4. Reprinted in Chattahoochee Valley Times [Lanett, Ala.], 31 January 1940, p. 4; and in Virginia-Pilot [Norfolk, Va.], 11 February 1940: section 1, 6. [Poem]

44. On Defeated Creek. Frontier and Midland 17, no. 2 (Winter 1936-37): 120-24. [Short story]

45. The Quare Day. The Household 37, no. 1 (January 1937) : 36. [Short story]

46. On Redbird Creek. Sewanee Review 45, no. 1 (January-March 1937): 23. [Poem]

47. Pattern for Death. Nation 144, no. 1 (2 January 1937): 22. [Poem]

48. Death on Troublesome Creek. Kaleidograph 8, no. 10 (February 1937): 12. [Poem]

49. Job's Tears. Atlantic 159, no. 3 (March 1937): 35358. [Short story]

50. A Hillsman Speaks. Arcadian Life 24 (February 1937): 2. [Poem]

51. Spring on Troublesome Creek. New Republic 80 (31 March 1937): 237. [Poem]

52. Hounds on the Mountain. Sewanee Review 14, no. 2 (April-June 1937): 165. Reprinted in Unaka Range #4 (June 1977): 6. [Poem]

53. Horseback in the Rain. Frontier and Midland 17, no. 3 (Spring 1937): 158. [Poem]

54. With Hands like Leaves. Kaleidograph 8, no. 12 (April 1937): 4. [Poem]

55. River of Earth. Mountain Life and Work 13, no. 1 (April 1937): 9. [Poem]

56. White Highways. Poetry 50 (May 1937): 70. Reprinted in Kentucky Alumnus 50, no. 3 (Summer 1980): 1617. [Poem]

57. Earth Bread. Poetry 50 (May 1937): 71. [Poem]

58. Hounds on the Mountain. New York: Viking Press, 1937. 55 pp. Reprinted in a limited edition of 250 hardcover copies by the Anvil Press, Lexington, Ky., 1965. 55 pp. Dedication of the book changed. Contents:

I. Hounds on the Mountain

Child in the Hills (see no. 24)

Mountain Dulcimer (see no. 9)

Fox Hunt [original title: Fox Hunt on Defeated Creek] (see no. 27)

Horse Swapping on Troublesome Creek (see no. 10)

Infare [original title: Mountain Infare] (see no. 15)

When the Dulcimers Are Gone (see no. 16)

Journey Beyond the Hills (see no. 38)

Hounds on the Mountain (see no. 52)

II. Creek Country

On Troublesome Creek (see no. 30)

On Redbird Creek (see no. 46)

Farm [original title:

Mountain Farm] (see no. 26)

Spring on Troublesome Creek (see no. 51)

Court Day

On Double Creek

III. Earth-Bread

Mountain Coal Town (see no. 35)

Earth-Bread (see nos. 29 and 57)

Night in the Coal Camps

IV. Death on the Mountain

Pattern for Death (see no. 47)

Death on the Mountain (see no. 19)

Graveyard [original title:

Graveyard in the Hills] (see no. 33)

Epitaph for Uncle Ira Combs, Mountain Preacher

Nixie Middleton

Death in the Forest (see no. 43)

Come Down from the Hills

Passenger Pigeons (see no. 25)

V. The Hill-Born

The Hill-Born (see no. 22)

White Highways (see no. 56)

Rain on the Cumberlands (see no. 39)

Uncle Ambrose (see no. 21)

Eyes in the Grass

With Hands like Leaves (see no. 54)

On Buckhorn Creek

Horseback in the Rain (see no. 53)

Heritage [original title: