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H I E
T O T H E H
U N T E R S
Whittlesey House of McGraw-Hill,
New York City, New York, 1950.
265 pp.
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Jesse Stuart’s fifth novel, Hie to the Hunters, was
published in 1950. The publisher
had troubling placing the book in it an
appropriate market. The head of the
junior department held that it was not a
book for children, but the issue was
finally resolved when an editor called
it “a junior book for adults”
(Richardson, Jesse, 338).
The book proved to be very popular,
going through seventeen printings
between 1950 and 1976. Harcourt, Brace &
World came out with a high school
edition (copy in Jesse Stuart
Collection) the following year.
The
story centers around the experiences of Didway “Did” Hargis, a pale and spindly
boy running away from his wealthy
parents from a nearby city. He is taken
in by Peg and Arn Sparks of Plum Grove.
Their sixteen-year-old son, “Sparkie,”
takes the city kid under his care and
the two boys becoming fast friends. All
goes well until Did’s arrival
touches off a feud between the country
folk and city people, leading to a
pitched battle during a late night
corn-shucking.
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