I was born in 1952,grew up here in the same little town I was born in. I was able to read at about 3 years old,and I don,t mean see spot run. That opened up a whole new world for me,remember no internet. I soon outgrew the local librarys stock and would ask the librarian to order books for me,which she gladly did.She was an American history and American Indian buff and that,s how I got into the Cherokee history thing. I also found out if you worked people would pay you good American dollars which I could use to buy books of my own.This lead to the acquisition of Magazines on books and the great discovery that companies would send you catalogs of the books they sold from which you could mail order all sorts of books on many subjects. Never been the same since!