Once a Hobo... The Autobiography of Monte Holm
- SIGNED Hardcover
- Ann Arbor: Proctor Publications, 1999
Ann Arbor: Proctor Publications, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 310pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Photographically illustrated paper over boards, with light shelfwear to the boards. Inscribed by Monte Holm on the front free endpaper: "To_____ / Your Friend / Monte Holm / 4/30/2002."
From the Foreword-
"The beauty behind survival of the fittest is that sometimes it produces a Monte Holm.
"And the beauty in a life story told straight forward, unencumbered by rationalizations or embellishments, is that sometimes it becomes a story we feel in our hearts...
"Monte's story is the Depression seen through the rough frame of an open boxcar door and beneath the starry expanse of the night sky over Montana sheep country. It starts small and simple and warm, and then is somehow spliced onto a larger, chilling documentary of a nation plunged into despair. It's as though someone, without artistic training, pointed a camera at those years and unintentionally caught not only the essence of the Grapes of Wrath, but those little windows into the human spirit.
From the Foreword-
"The beauty behind survival of the fittest is that sometimes it produces a Monte Holm.
"And the beauty in a life story told straight forward, unencumbered by rationalizations or embellishments, is that sometimes it becomes a story we feel in our hearts...
"Monte's story is the Depression seen through the rough frame of an open boxcar door and beneath the starry expanse of the night sky over Montana sheep country. It starts small and simple and warm, and then is somehow spliced onto a larger, chilling documentary of a nation plunged into despair. It's as though someone, without artistic training, pointed a camera at those years and unintentionally caught not only the essence of the Grapes of Wrath, but those little windows into the human spirit.