Pike County Ballads
Pike County Ballads is an 1871 book by John Hay. The collection of post American [Civil War|Civil War] poems is one of the first works to introduce vernacular styles of writing. Published originally in 1871, a 2nd edition was published in 1890 and a 3rd edition in 1912 by the Houghton Mifflin Company containing 35 illustrations by N.C. Wyeth.