First published in 1940 James Still s masterful novel has become a classic. It is the story seen through the eyes of a boy of three years in the life of his family and their kin. He sees his parents pulled between the meager farm with its sense of independence and the mining camp with its uncertain promise of material prosperity. In his world privation violence and death are part of everyday life accepted and endured. Yet it is a world of dignity love and humor of natural beauty which