This text presents a collection of short stories from American rural magazines from 1900 to 1925. The stories were first published in such popular farm magazines as "Successful Farming", "Farm and Fireside", "The Farmer's Wife", "The Ohio Farmer", and "The Country Gentleman".
Robert Hays has been a newspaper reporter, public relations writer, magazine editor, and university professor and administrator. A native of Illinois, he taught in Texas and Missouri and retired in 2008 from a long journalism teaching career at the University of Illinois. He served in the U.S. Army and holds three degrees, including an interdisciplinary Ph.D., from Southern Illinois University. He has spent a great deal of time in South Carolina, the home state of his wife, Mary, and is a member of the South Carolina Writers Workshop. His publications include academic journal and popular periodical articles and eight books, one released in paperback under a new title. His three most recent books are novels. Robert and Mary live in Champaign, Illinois. They have two sons and a grandson and share (long story!) a cat named Eddie with the family next door.
