Hardcastle
John Yount
Open Road Media
<p><B>"From now on, there are bound to be two classics of the Great Depression&#8212;<I>The Grapes of Wrath </I>and <I>Hardcastle</I>." &#8212;<I>Los Angeles Times</I></B><BR /> In 1931 William Music is making his way back home to Virginia when he hops off a freight train in Switch County, Kentucky, to find something to eat. For eleven cents&#8212;all the money in his pocket&#8212;he buys a soda bottle's worth of moonshine. Farther down the road, he takes two turnips and a handful of string beans from a kitchen garden and beds down for the night in a haystack. It is still dark out when he wakes up to a dog licking his forehead and a man pointing a pistol in his face.<BR /> Despite the awkward introduction, Music and Regus Bone are soon friends. Bone is a guard at Hardcastle Coal Co., whose owner will do anything to keep his employees from unionizing. For the irresistible wage of three dollars a day, Music&#8212;outfitted with an ancient, misfiring revolver and a holster made from...</p></BR>