Uncovered wagon

"...seems to be written around a core of autobiography, and Billy, the boy in the book, grows up hating and fearing his father. Billy and The Old Man spend a lot of the book doing field work and living unpleasantly along the backroads of Texas. This book is one of those rare Texas works that convinces the reader it speaks for thousands of others." --A.C. Greene THE 50 BEST BOOKS ON TEXAS