...Harry R. Ferrell, Ed's earliest years were happily spent on his grandparent's farm. His mother later married Oscar Little and the family moved to Detroit, Michigan. Ed disliked city life, taking refuge in reading frontier adventures...

...Ed's earliest years were spent on his grandparent's farm, but while Ed was still young, his mother and stepfather, Oscar Little, moved the family to Detroit, Mich. for work. Ed never acclimated to city life; he took refuge in reading, specifically...