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People I Have Smiled With

Introduction by
Larry F. Lamb


Table of Contents

Who's Who in Lamb's autobiography
People I Have Smiled With
By Elbert Ewing 'Eb' Lamb
1866-1950
T able of Contents




Early Ridgway — 5
Pretty Hats And A Sunday Horse Race — 7
School Days — 11
Ridgway's First Ice Cream Parlor — 14
Back To The Party Days Of Ridgway — 17
The Mill Produced Flour and Tall Tails — 19
The Spelling Bee — 19
Ghosts In The Covered Bridge — 21
The Lost Coffin — 22
Ghosts In The Crawford Cemetery — 22
The Ghost And Isadore DeVoux — 23
Ghosts Were Not The Only Spirits Around — 24
A Week End Ritual — 26
Civil War Stories — 28
Dave Had His Constipational Rights — 29
The Brass Cannon — 30
A Church Choir is Organized — 30
Constable Kirk — 32
Feudin' And Fightin' — 32
Small Pox And Bird Shot — 33
The "Blind Tiger" In Ridgway — 33
The Agitator With The Biggest Heart Of Any Man — 34
The "Blind Tiger" And The French Harp Band — 34
A Lighted Torch In The Night — 35
The Crooked Chimney — 35
How To Clean A Stove Pipe With Gun Powder — 37
Revival Meetings — 38
Rubberoid Roofing — 39
Eb Verses The Bull Dog — 40
Rebuilding A Rail Fence — 41
The Lost Hunters — 42
A Trip To The River Bottoms - Our Usual Camping Place — 42
The Frontiersman And The Indians — 43
The Indian Doctor — 43
Little Yink And Big Yink — 44
Trip To The Wild West — 45
Tenderfoot Aren't You — 47
Eb - The Telegrapher — 48
A Cowboy Joke — 49
The Land Scam — 54
Eb Lamb: Stonemason And Carpenter — 55
A Surprise Meeting — 57
Back Home To Ridgway — 57


Transcribed by Larry F. Lamb, nephew of Eb Lamb, who published his autobiography, "People I Have Smiled With" sometime in the 1940s it is believed.



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