Memories of a Farm Boy

About this book

A stick horse. A kerosene-barrel saddle. Fifty-five gallons of pure cowboy imagination.Long before screens filled quiet hours, a farm boy in Twelve Mile, Indiana, turned 160 acres into a world of stagecoach chases, secret woods, and quiet afternoons leaning against a fallen oak just to listen to the gentle voice of the trees and the birds.In Memories of a Farm Boy, Richard A. Elkins opens the bottom drawer of a lifetime of memories and pulls out story after true story from a 1950s and '60s Indiana childhood -- chores before school, a bull that meant business, a rat terrier named Trixie, and a vision of heaven so vivid it changed how he saw the rest of his life.These aren't tall tales polished for effect. They're the real, unhurried moments of a boy who knew every tree on his family's land by heart, who learned hard work and deeper faith side by side with his brothers and sister, and who -- eighty years later -- still carries every one of them like treasures.Written for his grandchildren, but given to us all, this collection is a gentle, funny, faith-filled trip back to a simpler time -- one chore, one chase, one cow named Toots at a time.Come sit a while and remember what it was like to be young, free, and a little bit wild on the family farm.