Table of Contents

The First Page
1. The Armstrongs
2. The Bowies
3. Courtship and Marriage
4. William Bowie in Texas
5. End of the Pastoral Interlude
6. White Castle, Louisiana
7. The House
8. Early Years
9. Weatherford
10. Family Fictives
11. Menage and Menagerie
12. Training
13. Locusts
14. A Young Lady
15. This Plastic Age
The Last Page

About the Author

Ellen Bowie Holland lived in Fort Worth, Texas. She wrote articles for Southwest Review and Life magazine.

Reviews

Mrs. Holland's affectionate but straightforward and unsentimentally humorous view of her family and their life makes her account of Weatherford, Texas in the years of her childhood a pleasure to read, and her observant nature makes it valuable .... Gay as a Grig is as pleasant in format as it is in contents. (Southwest Review) ... a sensitive and nostalgic account of the author's childhood and youth, mostly in Palo Pinto County, Texas. (Journal of Southern History)