The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart

<p>Meet 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 to 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 back-woods 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.</p>