Pike County Ballads

Third edition (1912 - Houghton, Mifflin)
Author	John Hay
Language	English
Genre	Poetry
Publisher	James R. Osgood
Publication date	1871
Publication place	United States
Pages	88
ISBN	1885852258

Pike County Ballads is an 1871 book by John Hay. The collection of post Civil War poems is one of the first works to introduce vernacular styles of writing. Published originally in 1871, a 2nd edition was published in 1890 and a 3rd edition in 1912 by the Houghton Mifflin Company containing 35 illustrations by N.C. Wyeth.^[1]