The Legendary Casey Jones and Other American Folktales

The Legendary Casey Jones brings together many of Geoffrey Thomas’s short stories for the first time, each brimming with the big heartedness, warmth, and homespun humor that he is known for. Sweeping through southern deltas, western prairies and colonial outposts, Geoffrey Thomas introduces a host of extraordinary characters in his mesmerizing tales of American heritage: blacksmiths, farmers, frontiersmen try to get by; a brave railroad engineer becomes a national hero; a Native American girl changes the course of history.

Geoffrey Thomas was born in Wales in 1938. He studied at Cardiff University and later trained for the ministry at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He spent 50 years as a pastor of Alfred Place Baptist Church, Aberystwyth and is the author of several books and numerous articles. Geoffrey Thomas was awarded an honorary doctorate from Westminster Theological Seminary in 2011.