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VTG 1920s Missouri Outdoorsman Book \'Specialist From Hardscrabble\' SIGNED Traw
Offering an antique book titled, \"Specialist from Hardscrabble\". Signed by the author and inscribed, \"To my dear friends Mr. and Mrs. Mark Vincent, E. C. Traw\". This book is a collection of memories and short stories about growing up near Linn Creek MO by Dr. Elbert Crittenden Traw, D.D.S. Self published, no copyright date, but based on information presented, I\'m guessing sometime in the early 1920\'s.
Dr. Traw shares many great memories and stories about growing up at the turn of the century and his life as a dentist, including home remedies of the era and his experiences as an outdoorsman. Even includes a drawing for a wolf trap in the last chapter.
Areas mentioned in text include: Linn Creek, Max Creek, Osage River Farm, Lebanon, Hardscrabble, Warrensburg State Normal School, Springfield, Richland, Washington University Dental College in St. Louis, Iron holds Mill, Lover\'s Leap, Richland. Dates mentioned include: 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1910, 1911.
Expect wear, stains, writing inside front boards and on dedication page from years of use and storage. Buying as is, as pictured, issues noted. 164 pages, measures about 8.25\" x 5.5\" and weighs about 12 oz without packing materials.
Here are some excerpts from the book:
\"This book is dedicated to all my friends everywhere.To the dentists, to the fishermen, hunters, and all lovers of the outdoors…\"
\"It seems to me that there have been more changes in living conditions during the 70 years that I can remember than had been in all the history of the world before.There was not very much variation in the living conditions of people at that time.Most everything was homemade-the furniture, the houses, the barns and most all of the furnishings.There were no houses in our community accept log houses.Some of them were hewed logs, others were made of a round logs.Some were chinkedand pointed with lime, others were daubed with mud.Most all of them were built near a spring.I can remember but two houses in our neighborhood that had dug Wells with living water.Our house was a double log house.It had two rooms about 16 feet square…\"
