The Memoir

Barefoot and Bulletproof: The Dirty Little Glover Boys is a wild ride through the chat-pile shadows of Picher, Oklahoma—part boomtown, part ghost town, and 100% unforgettable.

Told with belly-laugh humor and gut-punch honesty, this memoir follows two scrappy brothers—barefoot, reckless, and full of grit—as they stage BB gun battles, launch off rooftops, wrangle pigs, and prove that pain is temporary but pride is forever.

It’s the story of growing up in a town poisoned by its own prosperity, yet too proud to quit on itself—or each other.

At its heart, Barefoot and Bulletproof is a love letter to memory itself. The pages are packed with outrageous stunts, vivid characters, and a strong current of brotherhood and family loyalty. It roars with laughter, but never looks away from the losses: a town erased, a father’s fading mind, the ache of watching places and people slip away.

Whether you grew up in the Rust Belt or just wish you had a chat pile for a backyard, this book will pull you in and won’t let go. And by the time the Gorilla roars one last time, you’ll know what the Glover boys finally figured out:

Home isn’t a place. It’s a story worth telling.