Be a Man: Raised in the Shadow of Cowboys

Introduction

Cover design by Allen Morris Jones

For many years now (I like to joke that I’ve been working on it for sixty-six years), I’ve been writing a memoir that has a very specific focus, which is what it means to grow up as a man in the West. We get a lot of mixed messages living in this part of the country about how we’re supposed to behave, how to treat women…