Over my shoulder [typescript] : [1967] / Owen H. Perry.

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Over my shoulder [typescript] : [1967] / Owen H. Perry.

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Incomplete and unpublished memoir re Perry's life growing up in Montana; travel to New York; first trip to Europe in 1914; attendance at University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University; military service in World War I; and landing with the U.S. Army in France. Topics discussed include ranching; cowboys and other residents; frontier life; gold mining; boom towns; life in New York City; employment on Wall Street; impressions of President Woodrow Wilson; Army training at Plattsburg, N.Y.; travel to Liverpool, England; arrival in France; and training in use of hand grenades.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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