The Missouri Kid

by James Melvin Scott


Formats

Softcover
£11.58
Softcover
£11.58

Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 25/10/2000

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 188
ISBN : 9781588201119

About the Book

James Melvin Scott’s book, The Missouri Kid, chronicles the life of a boy growing up in the Missouri Ozarks. While his parents, who were farmers, didn’t have much--very few families did--they provided their four children with a rich childhood in an environment surrounded by nature. Missouri is a network of great rivers and magnificent streams. Scott grew up hunting and fishing on the rivers and in the Ozark Hills of Missouri. Scott’s story takes you through his early years, through his youth when he played high school basketball and was a cowboy in the rodeo, and into adulthood when he eventually left Missouri and crossed the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim with a friend as he headed out West, to California, to pursue the American dream.


About the Author

James Melvin Scott, born in 1911, was raised in the Ozark hills of Missouri. Before leaving Missouri in 1936, he was a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse. After moving to California, he was a supervisor in the dairy business, an insurance salesman, and then later retired in 1998 after 20 years as a real estate agent. During World War II, he worked for the government as a civilian on the Alaskan pipeline. A veteran tournament player who helped originate racquetball in San Diego, he is the recipient of ten gold, bronze and silver U.S. Senior Olympic medals. For then years, he sponsored racquetball tournaments with proceeds going to the San Diego Kidney Foundation. He has five children, thirteen grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren. He lives in San Diego with his wife, Helen.