Dwight Milgrim
Kenneth Dwight Milgrim was raised on a farm in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. His family was not unlike the Cates family in this story. They raised cattle and hogs and planted a big garden every spring. They always kept a milk cow and butchered a beef and a couple of hogs each fall.
They cooked on a wood cook stove, pumped water from a hand dug well, and did most of their farming with a team of horses. Dwight based the dialog in this story on the way his family and neighbors talked as...
