Captain Thomas Hunt Morgan, returning from his second tour in Afghanistan, looks forward to resuming his job as the Deputy Sheriff of Logan County in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. He was born and raised in the mountains, and except for his time in the military, has been a Deputy Sheriff just like his father and grandfather. He likes the people, their idiosyncratic ways and they, in turn, like and respect him. But he can be mean in a fight and everybody knows it, so he is generally successful in protecting his people from outsiders and from each other. However, these are mountain people...

J. T. Oney is the author of several fictional novels about the Morgan family from the mountains of Eastern Kentucky and books of non-fiction dealing with such varied subjects as war, politics, science, religion, and Islam. In this book the author tells of growing up in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. Under Part 1, Tales from the Mountains, the author begins with a series of stories about growing up in the mountains of Southeast Kentucky in the 1940s. The period in which the stories occur encompasses the end of the Depression, and was bookended by World War II and the Korean War. They were...