Find a creek bank. Pull up a stump, have a seat and gaze into the water. Drift back through the years as the sun warms your face and insects skitter across the surface. Think about what life was like for a boy and his dog a half century ago, way back in the Ozark Mountains.

Winding through the surging waters of an Ozark river and through a flood of memories of an Ozark childhood, The Drownt Boy is a lyrical depiction of one man's journey home.

Heartwarming, humorous, and entertaining memories of a boy from the Missouri Ozarks in the early 1900s. Every member of the family will enjoy reading about the exploits of young Otto: the country medicine of Grandma Benton; horse trading techniques; the "moonshine" stills back in the woods; and the Revenue man who never came back! Even if you aren't a descendant from these early families, you will love the stories of the Missouri Ozarks and the early years in Idaho. Stunning photos of the Missouri countryside draw you into the stories.

Time is the Great Depression.1930’s.Unmarried teen-ager chooses life for her unborn son despite many difficulties. .Cross-eyed and pudgy, he is teased a lot (hence book’s title) .Mother must give him up, elderly grandparents are only choice. They proceed to raise him through trials and errors, some serious, some humorous. Conservative farm folks from the Ozarks, they apply old fashioned rules of character which shape his life, while others in the little Ozark town keep him on the proper path. At the end of the story he is on his way to college, first person in his family to do so and is reunited with his mother in the night of her death.