Sandra V McGee

Montana Memoir Sandra V McGee

In this poignant memoir set in the contemporary West, award-winning author Bill McGee recaptures growing up in the small cattle town of Malta, Montana during the Great Depression. In McGee's signature spare and straightforward style, he recounts his coming-of-age story ... his father's desertion in the depths of the Depression leaving behind a wife with four young children all under the age of ten to fend for themselves ... his mother's and siblings struggle to make ends meet with everyone working to contribute to the family "kitty" ... what it was like being "farmed out" at age seven to a neighboring rancher to work for room and board "so there was one less mouth to feed at home" ... and thumbing rides and riding the rails around the West as a restless teenager, something that wouldn't likely happen today. 138 pp, 60 b/w photographs, Paperback 6" x 9" Memoirs by William L. McGee:
MONTANA MEMOIR: 1925-1942: The Hardscrabble Years
BLUEJACKET ODYSSEY, 1942-1946: Guadalcanal to Bikini
OPERATION CROSSROADS, LEST WE FORGET! 1946
THE DIVORCE SEEKERS: A Photo Memoir of a Nevada Dude Wrangler, 1947-1949
HOW I LEARNED TO SELL AND MAKE DEALS, 1950-1958: Memoir of a Merchant Man
THE BROADCASTING YEARS, 1958-1989: Memoir of a Television Pioneer
AUTHOR, PUBLISHER, MARKETING MAN, 1990-2015 (In the Chute for 2020)