Introduction : How it happened - Visiting around - The house my father built - School days - chores - Thrashin' Time - From bow bells to shining mountains - A trip to town - Cowboys and hired hands - The runaway - christmas and the comet - The Woollies - Our indian neighbors
This book for the child in all of us, the recollections of a childhood spent on the high plains of Montana near the turn of the century, when "frontier" was more than a word tossed around by historians and a boy could delight in the free, clean beauty of a land not far removed from wilderness.