Description: This autobiography follows the life of Joyce McCain Hartman through the childhood traumas that twisted her self-concept as well as her perspective on relationships to others, tracking the self-destructive behavior into which her "misbeliefs" led. About half of the book details the events of her life while the other describes how she was set free from the bondage of the past. BAREFOOT TEXAS TOMBOY is aimed primarily toward those who have had similar problems. It also brings a fresh look at historical episodes from one whose life started at about the same time as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and lived to see the coming of REA, the shift from rural to urban life in the United States, World War II, the sexual revolution, the war on segregation, and the arrival of electronics.