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Book Review of The Adventures of DIXIE NORTH

The Adventures of DIXIE NORTH
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HERBERT BURTON

The author was born in Carbon hill, Alabama and grew up in Jasper, Alabama, where he captained his high school football team. He attended Auburn University on a football scholarship and took his Master's degree from the University of Alabama. He coached at Talladega and Gadsden High Schools and was selected Gadsden's Man of the Year in 1953. The entire Burton family--his wife Charlene, his son Herb and his daughter Carolyn--enjoy raising horses on a 1158 acre farm on the Tennessee River near Huntsville, Alabama. Herb is a Annapolis sophomore and Caroly, a University of Alabama freshman. Br. Burton is a veteran of World War II.