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Thrashin' Time Memories of a Montana boyhood Thrashin time Milton Shatraw; Illustrated by Jody Primoff - Palo Alto, CA American West Publishing Company 1970 - 188 p.

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.


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