A manuscript of E. R. Gaskin's "Folk Tales of the Kentucky Hills" in which Gaskin recounts tales collected from the area of Kentucky where he grew up in order to preserve the stories and speech as used at that time. The document is divided into fifteen chapters: The People and the Land; Jeb and Kate; The Noisy Clock; The Judge's Toothpick; Jim Burton's Return; Politics and Oratory; Community Health; The Census Taker; The Time Machine; Strange Diseases; Entertainments; School Days; Backwoods Justice; The Battling Browns; and Jennie the Trader.