Helen Hill Norris wrote a weekly column for the Highlander during the 1960s called "Looking Backward." She drew on her childhood and the tales her elders would tell around the fireplace about a bygone frontier world of covered wagons, gold miners, traveling peddlers, and headstrong shopkeepers.
"The line between history and folklore is sometimes blurred, but Helen's claim to truth is that this is how the stories were told to her in the vernacular of the mountain folks, whose creative and colorful tropes adorned their language like bright stars in the firmament. Good stories of this type are timeless in the annals of well-written literature." -Randolph P. Shaffner, Highlands Historical Society Archivist Emeritus
by: Helen Hill Norris
1st ed., Paperback
160 pages
ISBN: 978-1-4671-4945-7
Pub: History Press
Pub. date: 2021
