About this edition
The memoir Barney wrote when he was 78
In 2012, Barney A. Ebsworth sat down and told the story of his own life: the son of an English father born in Windsor Castle and a St. Louis mother descended from a railroad man named Barney who wrote the first American city guidebook for the 1904 World's Fair.
He wrote about growing up poor in the Depression, the Eagle Scout who became the youngest in St. Louis at age 14, the quarter-miler who made the NCAA finals, the army corporal who willed himself to France, the entrepreneur who turned a $5,000 bank-cosigned stake in a dingy wig-shop travel agency into INTRAV, Royal Cruise Line, and Clipper Cruise Line — and the art collector who came to be close friends with Georgia O'Keeffe.
Hunts Point Publishing was founded to print the book. No digital edition was ever released. A small number of physical copies circulate in the used market.