Eighteen boys grew up together in a little western town in the days before television and computers, e-mail, Facebook and Twitter. They made their own fun when they found time away from hard work on the farms and other jobs. Their stories, as well as their individual exploits in later years include watching a troop train stopping in town loaded with National Guard soldiers on their way to fight in WW II; racing horses down a lane and hitting a cow; digging a grave and watching a skeleton collapse; confrontations with grizzly bears; unloading burning hay from a pickup towing horses before it reached gas cans; using a rattlesnake carcass to prevent inspections of an army barracks; an explanation of the theft of Fairview's 1905 white horse-drawn hearse. In addition, descriptions of the operation of cooperatives in the economic life of the community during the 1940s, is a valuable historic marker to measure the changes that have taken place in the town. This book tells their boyhood -- and then follows them through their lives and what they made of themselves. As the economy modernized, the boys and their families kept up with the changing times, gaining education and training to achieve success in myriad professions.