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Author Barnes, Craig S

Title Growing Up True : Lessons from a Western Boyhood
Published New York : Fulcrum Pub., 2009

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Description 1 online resource (249 pages)
Contents Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; Preface; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; Postlude
Summary In Growing Up True, Craig Barnes shares his stories of growing up in rural Colorado during and after World War II. As the youngest of three boys, and an imaginative one at that, he dreamed of many a swashbuckling adventure far beyond Colorado's Highline Canal. But the lessons and demands of real life always nipped at the edges of his fantastic dreams. Barnes's mother told him that he would develop moral character if he would carry water to her maple saplings. His father held that a small person " ... should learn to plan ahead, think a problem through, be lighthearted, cheerful, ready to h
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Subject Barnes, Craig S. -- Childhood and youth
SUBJECT Barnes, Craig S. fast
Subject Childhood and youth of a person
SUBJECT Arapahoe County (Colo.) -- Biography
Subject Colorado -- Arapahoe County
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781555917890
1555917895