Welcome back, everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales.

This is your host, John Haggardorn.

It's been a while since we last did a

Stuart Edward White short story. And we've done a couple. The last one, I think, was the girl who got

rattled, an excellent short story. I'll give you a little background on White. He was an American

author and spiritualist whose writing focused on nature and human nature at a time when America

was starting to lose its vast wilderness. He wrote westerns, camping journals, outdoor adventure

fiction that incorporated historical details about the California gold rush, fur trading,

and pioneers who passed through are settled in rugged country.

His writing style was pithy, plain spoken, and he enjoyed describing details about hunting, fishing,

cabin building, logging, guns, and other wilderness survival skills.

He had a spiritual site as well.

Between 1920 and 1920 and 22, he and his his wife Elizabeth Betty Grant White co-authored numerous

books based on channeling with spirits. White grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he loved

outdoor living and natural history. He incorporated his skills and experiences in his works.

Theodore Roosevelt complimented White as,

The Best Man with both pistol and rifle, whoever shot,

at Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill rifle range.

And Sagamore Hill, if you ever get to Long Island,

is a museum and a terrific visit.

And by the way, a minute ago I mentioned the girl who got rattled, that story inspired

an episode in a 2018 movie entitled The Ballad of Buster Scruggs by the Cohen Brothers.

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