Down Home Missouri: When Girls Were Scary and Basketball Was King

by Joel M. Vance

When I was thirteen, we moved to Dalton, Missouri, a flyspeck on the road map, so my father could supervise the 960-acre farm he and his two partners had bought several years before. It was a return to his roots. Our new home in Dalton was infinitely more primitive than our South Side Chicago apartment and even more primitive than my aunt and uncle's hill-country house on the other side of the county. It was a hotel, one that hadn't entertained guests...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826213073
• ISBN13: 9780826213075
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.3"
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher