Horses to Fords to Buicks

by MacK Samples

This honest coming of age story takes place along the Elk River and Clendenin in a rapidly changing world between 1913 and 1921. The railroad has arrived, oil and gas is booming, and World War I and the Spanish flu epidemic are ravaging the world-causing major changes in this once isolated farm country.

Shaun and his best friend Frankie have never ventured more than a few miles from their family farms. As they are maturing into men, they travel and work for the B&O, then the oil and gas industry. Their discovery of girls, Model T's-and countless other inventions-while grappling with how to balance the old and new ways, is both honest and entertaining.

This rewarding story describes, among many other things, old-time music and banjo playing, what living on a farm was like, discovering girls, and courting. It shows the opportunities available to young men who were willing to expand their horizons, learn, and work hard.

Mack Samples has a gift of allowing the atmosphere and way people once lived in rural West Virginia to come alive; letting us feel we not only understand, but also want to be a part of the world he creates. He is an authority on describing the authentic life of the early 1900s in the West Virginia hills.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0938985329
• ISBN13: 9780938985327
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Mountain Memories Books
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"