Cobb wrote these linked stories to show the Southerner as he knew him rather than as fiction painted him. In a river town in western Kentucky, the shrewd, kindly Judge Priest presides over elections, horse trots, a lynch mob from Massac and the quarrels of old Confederate veterans.
The stories that inspired John Ford’s Judge Priest films; their racial attitudes and Confederate nostalgia are those of 1912. Download the free EPUB.