Sol Wright sent Frank Dobie a hand-written manuscript shortly before his death in 1937. He requested Dobie publish it if he was unable to do so before he passed.

Per Dobie, "It is the honest, simple, unpretentious ax-stroke slow record of a man who had absorbed the memories of his parents and grandparents, going back to times when the families came to the Texas colonies...of a man who belonged to the good earth, was abidingly decent, believed in going his own way and letting other people go theirs."