Raisin' Cane in Appalachia | Trafford Publishing

Trafford Publishing Author David Osborne was born in a family of thirteen children in Pike County, Ohio, and raised in Scioto County near Portsmouth through some stops in Kentucky. He graduated from Northwest High school in McDermott, Ohio, in 1961. Even though he obtained an academic scholarship from Ohio University Portsmouth Branch, financial and family issues caused him to drop out before the semester ended. He took his father’s advice and moved to Columbus, Ohio, and went to work. 

In 1963 he married Patricia Pickard and was drafted into the US Army about a month later. During his military time, he decided to renew his dream of teaching, and he went back to college. After attending Southern Colorado State College in Colorado Springs, Colorado, he spent time at Florissant Valley Community College in Saint Louis, Missouri, before graduating from the University of Missouri, Saint Louis. He obtained a BS degree in political science and then moved back to Southern Ohio to begin a teaching career. A couple of years later, he obtained a master’s degree from Xavier University at Cincinnati. In addition to retiring from the Naval Reserve as a chief petty officer, he spent almost forty years in education being a teacher, assistant principal, and a principal. His last assignment was a principalship in Savannah, Georgia, and that is where he retired. After his retirement, he worked at several other positions, but his main goal was to become a successful writer. This is his fifth book, including three Western novels that allowed him to become a member of the Western Writers of America.

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