On the Road
| On the Road | |
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| Read this book | |
| Time frame | 1944 - 1954 |
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| First posted | March 12, 2012 - June 8, 2012 |
| Series | Bullring Days |
| Series number | 1 |
| Chapters | 39 |
| Related | Locations Characters |
The full name is Bullring Days One: On the Road. It's the first book of a series of (at least) four.
Summary
Mel Austin didn't want to be just a farmhand for his brother, so after the Army and World War II, he attended college on the GI Bill. But after graduating, he couldn't stand the thought of teaching in a big-city slum high school, either. A wartime friend asks him to join his ragtag midget auto racing show, Mel figures it's better than pumping gas until school starts. In love with the thrills, action, and a chance to see the country, he spends several years vagabonding with the show through the turbulent and now half-forgotten world of the early 1950s. Adventure and new friends abound, and his life winds up going to places he could never have dreamed.
Chapters
- On the Road Chapter 1 (Spring 1945)
- On the Road Chapter 2
- On the Road Chapter 3 (1946)
- On the Road Chapter 4 (August 1946)
- On the Road Chapter 5 (1946 - 1950)
- On the Road Chapter 6
- On the Road Chapter 7
- On the Road Chapter 8
- On the Road Chapter 9 (Summer 1950)
- On the Road Chapter 10
- On the Road Chapter 11 (1945 - 1949)
- On the Road Chapter 12 (June 1950)
- On the Road Chapter 13 (Late Summer and Fall 1950)
- On the Road Chapter 14
- On the Road Chapter 15
- On the Road Chapter 16 (March 1951)
- On the Road Chapter 17 (Spring 1951)
- On the Road Chapter 18 (June 1951)
- On the Road Chapter 19 (Summer and Fall 1951)
- On the Road Chapter 20 (Winter 1951-52)
- On the Road Chapter 21 (Spring 1952)
- On the Road Chapter 22 (Spring and Summer 1952)
- On the Road Chapter 23 (Summer 1952)
- On the Road Chapter 24 (Fall 1952)
- On the Road Chapter 25
- On the Road Chapter 26 (Early 1953)
- On the Road Chapter 27 (April - June 1953)
- On the Road Chapter 28 (June 1953)
- On the Road Chapter 29 (June 1953)
- On the Road Chapter 30 (June 1953)
- On the Road Chapter 31 (June 1953)
- On the Road Chapter 32 (sunner 1953)
- On the Road Chapter 33 (Fall 1953)
- On the Road Chapter 34 (Fall 1953)
- On the Road Chapter 35 (Winter 1953-54)
- On the Road Chapter 36 (Late winter 1954)
- On the Road Chapter 37 (Spring 1954)
- On the Road Chapter 38 (July 1954)
- On the Road Chapter 39 (July 1954)
The Story Behind The Story
At 20:18:17 03/11/12, Wes posted on the Spearfish Lake Tales Forum: "Like most of my books, this one has a story behind the story. Some years ago I was going through a very blocked writing phase, and I couldn't manage to write anything. In an effort to try to break myself of it, I decided to try something new: a young adult book. Since it will be posted eventually I don't want to leave many spoilers, but suffice to say that a young teenager gets to listening to stories of a very old Mel's youth. The section got out of hand, and I finally realized that I was getting pretty interested in Mel's story. It took me two books to tell the parts of Mel's story, and another one involving his son before I got the story around to the place I'd started. All four are planned for posting eventually."
