A Boy from Barnhart

Everyone has a story to tell a legacy to leave to both living family and future generations. In his memoir <i>A Boy from Barnhart: Times Remembered</i> author Herb Taylor shares his life story and legacy from his coming of age on large ranches and small towns in West Texas to his subsequent career as a professional army officer. Taylor writes of life and its realities during the drought years of the 1950s. He chronicles the people places ideas and incidents he encountered during a twenty-eight year army career as well as his struggle with a lifelong alcohol addiction and the death of his childhood sweetheart after a thirty-five year marriage. He writes of the good times and the not so good the ordinary and the unusual in a casual personal and informative way that captures the times and his life experiences. Equal parts genealogy history travelogue and memoir Taylor's memories are the emotional account of a life well-lived as well as an interesting and intricate record of times gone by.