Small Town Author (Voice in the American West).by Erickson, Erickson, New**

Small Town AuthorAuthor(s): John R. Erickson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Texas A & M University Press, United States\nImprint: Texas A & M University Press\nISBN-13: 9781682832547, 978-1682832547\nSynopsis\nMore than fifty years ago, John R. Erickson took a vow of discipline. Every day, he would retreat to some quiet place and write for four hours. For nearly as many years, readers have eagerly awaited the fruits of those labors, whether they be in the form of Hank the Cowdog installments or other books on ranching and the writing life in [url] Town Author documents the journey of a young man eager to escape his Panhandle childhood to the adult who returned to write books for the rural readers he had previously scorned.\n\nThe hurricane years of the '60s swept young Erickson to Denver, Austin, Cambridge, New York, and back. From big city to small town, from social activist to flunky bartender, from church work to ranch work, from literary aspirations to self-publishing, thi.