Hay, John. Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle, and Little Breeches; With Illustrations by S. Eytinge, Jr.
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Hay, John. Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle, and Little Breeches; With Illustrations by S. Eytinge, Jr.

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Hay, John. Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle, and Little Breeches; With Illustrations by S. Eytinge, Jr. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871. First Edition. [4358]  Printed peach wrappers, 7 x 4 1/2 inches, wrappers fold split but not quite separated, some splitting to folds of text. Frontispiece & 7 additional full-page illustrations, 24 pp. total. Good. Pamphlet. BAL 7739; listed in Johnson's High Spots of American Literature. John Hay (1838-1905), American diplomat and author, served as Abraham Lincoln's secretary and biographer, later as assistant US Secretary of State in the administrations of Hayes and of Garfield, and as US Secretary of State under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. The first poem here - Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle - written in the dialect of Pike County, Illinois - is about a boatman who is "no saint," with one wife in Mississippi and one in Illinois. When his steamboat catches fire, Jim Bludso saved all of his passengers at the co

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