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Show it, isn't therJJTN shrink a hatband W tween Mother and a Visitine church authority. So highly was Mother regarded in the community that half of it. residents followed he into the new faith. Five years he began writing Robertson was listed in "Who's Who In America." "With considerable pride I showed the impressive volume to Mother. She glanced through it, then remarked dryly, 'My there's lots of other people in Sheepherder to Writer Is Saga of Robertson How a self-educated Idaho sheepherder JS become one of the na best known writers of west ern stories is told in Frank C. Robertson's candid auto biography, "A Ham In The Thicket" condensed in the June Reader's Digest. Robertson, who lives m Springville, Utah is the author of hundreds of magazine articles and books. In his story Robertson relates re-lates the fascinating experiences exper-iences of his tough-fibred family and its long battle against hard luck and hard times. , "A few years earlier people would have called us pioneers But by my time (1890) we were simply wagon tramps, the Moscow Idaho born writer says. . Life in the mountain west of that time was a tough proposition, pro-position, beset by natural disaster, man-made panics and violence in many forms. It was to his land in the 1880's that Robertson's erratic father brought his prairie school teacher bride. But for them the promsied opportunity of the west never developed and their three boys, Chauncy, Obe and Frank grew up in poverty. Robertson's parents joined the Mormon Church after an all night scriptual battle be- |
