Pat Gillum, a hillbilly with an adventurous soul, spins many true stories of his ancestors, as they push their way west in the mid 1800s. They eventually all gather up around Wing, Arkansas, deep in the Ouachita mountains, around 1898. They do well there, for the times, with much hard work. The Great Depression accompanied by six consecutive very hot, dry years changes all that, however, and by the time Pat comes upon the scene in 1944, the Gillums have reverted back to how they lived before the Depression, living off the land, the forests and the river, back during the "good times." Pat...