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
- On the Road Chapter 4
- On the Road Chapter 5
- On the Road Chapter 6
- On the Road Chapter 7
- On the Road Chapter 8
- On the Road Chapter 9
- On the Road Chapter 10
- On the Road Chapter 11
- On the Road Chapter 12
- On the Road Chapter 13
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."
