Bayou LaGrue

About the Book

With little more than an average monthly income of only two dollars and fifty cents per month and the plentiful bounty of the Arkansas bayou country, the family of Leon Doyle—a family of six—survived the ten years of the Great Depression. Though stricken with extreme poverty, Doyle enjoyed a happy, unencumbered life of southern superstitions, witches, boogiemen, and mysterious apparitions in the backwoods. He wasn’t really aware of the shortcomings of his circumstances. Completely happy with his life until World War II was just over the horizon and his family moved into town, completely destroying his comfort zone. The shortcomings were so immediate and overpowering that it took him years to overcome them. However during his last years in high school he felt comfortable with the situation, accepting life as it was given. Basking in his maturity he got a job, and except room and board he supported himself. Finally, in gratitude for all the Mamma and Daddy did for him, he helped buy a house, a home of their own.

About the Author

T. Leon Doyle grew up in the bayou of Arkansas and later joined the army during the Korean War. He adventured in Central and South America after being shot in a gun battle in Alabama. He traveled the world as the vice president of operations for an international corporation that built chemical and explosive projects. Now retired, he currently lives on a mountain top in the Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee.