| Getting Outside: A Far-Western Childhood Contributor(s): Waterman, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1530929342 ISBN-13: 9781530929344 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $11.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 7" W x 10" (1.04 lbs) 270 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is a memoir of a childhood spent on an isolated livestock ranch on the southern coast of Oregon in the mid-twentieth century. The author's family kept heading west until they reached the Pacific Ocean and then stalled for a hundred years. While much of the United States by 1950 was already urbanized, on Four Mile Creek horses were being replaced by tractors, axes by power saws, and coal-oil lamps by electric lights. The contrasts between the myths of the American West and reality are described: living off the land, freedom from all outside authority, cowboys, loggers, wilderness and the conflicted roles of men and women. |