
The setting of Wheeler County, Oregon, makes for rich storytelling combined with the historical facts. Excerpting from interviews with old-timers, stories are told in their own words. The facts and stories tell of a deep respect for the courageous and very independent people...

This is an account of a farm girls lifelong love for her isolated river valley, her role as a mother, as a wife, and as a schoolteacher. The book is sometimes humorous, sometimes, poignant, and always a very real account of life in rural America as seen through the eyes of an...