This lovingly written biography tells the story of Sandown Smith . Born in 1903 in Gainesville, Texas, he began life on his own at the young age of fourteen. He rode the rails through several states in the US until settling in Wellington, Texas, where he got married and perfected many skills, including engineering, farming, mechanic work, construction, hunting, fishing, and making many friends and followers, as well as raising four daughters. He had multiple and various exceptional traits, and was very much a man's man. Sandown enjoyed a varied and interesting life, and reaped the benefits of hard work and a devotion to honest living.