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Child of Steens Mountain

Author : Eileen O'Keeffe McVicker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child of Steens Mountain written by Eileen O'Keeffe McVicker and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Eileen O'Keeffe McVicker, born in 1927 to an Irish immigrant sheep rancher and a school teacher, growing up on a homestead in the West made for "a hard, happy life with layers of riches." McVicker's memoir of a childhood spent on the southern slope of Steens Mountain offers a real-life, personal account of eastern Oregon history.An "outdoor child" all her life, McVicker tells stories that revolve around life on the ranch-tending sheep, picking wildflowers, doing chores-and describes everyday adventures: a rabid coyote threatens the family; a wild mustang stallion tries to kill her father; a Merino buck sheep leaps through the schoolhouse window. Images of Steens country-wild sagebrush and juniper country, with rugged vistas in every direction-are woven throughout her recollections, which share the profound sense of place found in the best Western memoirs. While vividly describing ranch life, Child of Steens Mountain also explores universal issues of parenting, making a living, and growing up. The homesteading life built a child's character and confidence, and as she reaches adulthood, McVicker, raised to be independent and responsible, ultimately defies her parents to follow her own path.McVicker's neighbor and friend, Barbara J. Scot, edited and organized the narration while preserving the author's distinctive voice. In an afterword, Scot reflects on McVicker's experiences and describes the collaborative process-including a visit to the old homestead site-that led to this book. Historian Richard Etulain, whose own childhood was spent on a sheep ranch in the West, provides an overview of sheep ranching and homesteading in Steens country in his foreword.Whether intrigued by Oregon history, the high desert country, or memoirs of homesteading life, readers will be unable to resist these appealing stories of growing up amid the natural beauty of Steens country.

Steens Mountain in Oregon's High Desert Country

Author : Edwin Russell Jackman
Publisher : Caxton Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870040283
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Steens Mountain in Oregon's High Desert Country written by Edwin Russell Jackman and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Award winning photography and lithography sets this "coffee table" book apart from others of its type.

The Wallowas

Author : William Ashworth
Publisher : Northwest Reprints (Paperback)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wallowas written by William Ashworth and published by Northwest Reprints (Paperback). This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part mountaineering adventure story and part spiritual memoir, The Wallowas recounts a young man's search for the challenges and the solace that wilderness offers. As a student, William Ashworth discovered the Wallowa Mountains in northeast Oregon and they became an obsession. His weekends and vacations were dedicated to exploring this rugged country - roughly the size of Los Angeles and home to 126 peaks, each over 8,000 feet high. In language vivid and precise, Ashworth describes attempts to ascend Eagle Cap, Pete's Point, Sacajaweja, and the Matterhorn. Climbing and camping in summer rain and winter blizzards, he faces the challenge of the Wallowa high country and the humility it teaches. The book tracks the author's coming of age in the wilderness - from a need to conquer mountains to an awareness of the redemptive qualities found in these wild places and the need to preserve the last of them.

Above the Clearwater

Author : Bette Lynch Husted
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Above the Clearwater written by Bette Lynch Husted and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like her father before her, Bette Husted grew up on stolen land. The benchland above the Clearwater River in north-central Idaho had been a home for the Nez Perce Indians until the Dawes Act opened their reservation to settlement in 1895."--BOOK JACKET.

Where the Crooked River Rises

Author : Ellen Waterston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870715921
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Where the Crooked River Rises written by Ellen Waterston and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ellen Waterston's new book is a slug of juniper air, a breath-taking view of a rough-edged land, as bracing and taut as October morningsùpart celebration, part elegy all love and the wisdom that grows from deep roots in basalt rock. Like Wallace Stegner and Ivan Doig, Waterston writes masterfully about what it meansùwhat it really means -to live in the West."-Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Wild Comfort There is an otherness to the high desert, something momentous and sacred in the purity of the silence. In this compelling collection of personal essays, award winning poet and author Ellen Waterston illuminates the people, places, and landscapes of central Oregon's vast high desert. In Where the Crooked River Rises, Waterston reveals the blessings and challenges of decades spent as a rancher and town resident in a place that has been, and remains, her touchstone and crucible. The high desert is Waterston's teacher, and she describes its lessons with grace and care, inviting readers to look at their own lives through a lens of wide-open spaces, sagebrush and juniper, pumice and rabbit blush.

When I Was Young in the Mountains

Author : Cynthia Rylant
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140548750
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book When I Was Young in the Mountains written by Cynthia Rylant and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caldecott Honor Book! "An evocative remembrance of the simple pleasures in country living; splashing in the swimming hole, taking baths in the kitchen, sharing family times, each is eloquently portrayed here in both the misty-hued scenes and in the poetic text." -Association for Childhood Education International

Tough by Nature

Author : Lynda Lanker
Publisher : Jordan Schnitzer Museum, University of Oregon
ISBN 13 : 9780871140999
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Tough by Nature written by Lynda Lanker and published by Jordan Schnitzer Museum, University of Oregon. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features portraits of female ranchers and cowgirls who live in the American West, and anecdotes about their daily lives and thoughts about the disappearance of their lifestyle.

100 Hikes/Travel Guide: Eastern Oregon

Author : William L. Sullivan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967783093
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book 100 Hikes/Travel Guide: Eastern Oregon written by William L. Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete guide to hiking and traveling in Eastern Oregon, including the Wallowa Mountains, Steens Mountain, and the high desert country east of Bend.

The Late, Great Lakes

Author : William Ashworth
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814318874
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book The Late, Great Lakes written by William Ashworth and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Late, Great Lakes is a powerful indictment of man's carelessness, ignorance, and apathy toward the Great Lakes. With the longest continuous coastline in the United States, they hold one-fifth of the world's freshwater supply. Author William Ashworth presents a compelling history of the Great Lakes, from their formation in the Ice Age, to their "discovery" by Samuel de Champlian in 1615, and, finally, to their impending death in our time. Ashworth systematically deals with the wild life that once flourished in the region-beaver, salmon, whitefish, and trout-and describes the threatening elements which have displaced them-the predatory sea lamprey, the alewives, toxic waste, and volatile solids.

Oregon Historical Quarterly

Author : Oregon Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Oregon Historical Quarterly written by Oregon Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Coyote Was Going There

Author : Jarold Ramsey
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295803517
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Coyote Was Going There written by Jarold Ramsey and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vivid imagination, robust humor, and profound sense of place of the Indians of Oregon are revealed in this anthology, which gathers together hitherto scattered and often inaccessible legends originally transcribed and translated by scholars such as Archie Phinney, Melville Jacobs, and Franz Boas.

The Nude Beach Notebook

Author : Barbara J. Scot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870717406
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Nude Beach Notebook written by Barbara J. Scot and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging new memoir, a loose sequel to her earlier Prairie Reunion, Barbara Scot explores her reluctance and longing to reconnect with a much-loved brother, lost to alcoholism for thirty years. Scot uses long, meditative walks on the "clothing optional" beach of the idyllic Sauvie Island near Portland, Oregon, to explore family responsibility, time's passage, and faith. She weaves entries from her notebook--a record of the island's wildlife, descriptions of the "Odd Ones" she encounters on the beach, and stories about the native people who once lived on the river--with the main narrative, tracing her search for her brother, her close friendship with a fellow writer, and daily life on the houseboat moorage where she lives. The Nude Beach Notebook highlights the importance of place as a means for exploring and interpreting one's own story. In the end, Scot's walks on Sauvie Island lead to her own redemptive journey. She considers the uses of fiction and non-fiction in memory and in writing, the brevity and beauty of human existence, and the inscrutable, enduring mystery of death.

Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest

Author : Mark Turner
Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest written by Mark Turner and published by Timber Press (OR). This book was released on 2006-02-20 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring more than 1240 stunning color photographs, this comprehensive field guide will remain a trusted, authoritative trailside reference for years to come.

The Steen Family in Europe and America

Author : Moses Duncan Alexander Steen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Steen Family in Europe and America written by Moses Duncan Alexander Steen and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Western American Literature

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Western American Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Shadow of the Steens

Author : Leilani M. Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975442807
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book The Shadow of the Steens written by Leilani M. Davis and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Practice of the Wild

Author : Gary Snyder
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1582439354
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book The Practice of the Wild written by Gary Snyder and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of captivatingly meditative essays that display a deep understanding of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world from an American cultural force. With thoughts ranging from political and spiritual matters to those regarding the environment and the art of becoming native to this continent, the nine essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder. These essays, first published in 1990, stand as the mature centerpiece of Snyder's work and thought, and this profound collection is widely accepted as one of the central texts on wilderness and the interaction of nature and culture.