Chasing Good Sense - A Boy's Life on the Frontier

Life on the Utah frontier as seen through the eyes of a child

About the author

Homer McCarty (1868-1954) was a schoolteacher, mineral surveyor, owner of a drugstore and mercantile, and editor of the Sevier Valley Sun. He retired in 1940 and spent the remainder of his years writing.

Coralie McCarty Beyers (1926-2017), granddaughter of Homer McCarty, was an English professor at Utah State University. An author, poet, and gifted artist, she is the editor of Man Meets Grizzly, which recounts her maternal grandfather's stories of bear encounters during the settling of the western frontier.

Product details

• Authors: Homer McCarty
• Assisted by: Coralie McCarty Beyers (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Utah Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781607816553
• ISBN: 978-1-60781-655-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 213 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Biography / Autobiography