Southwest Corner Stories: 75 Years of Memories

By Floyd McCracken

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963744577
• ISBN13: 9780963744579
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Shasta Valley Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Southwest Corner Stories

After more than 42 years as a writer and editor, Floyd McCracken couldn't turn off the memories or his desire to write about them. Though he retired at the age of 70, he continued to write for the San Diego Union for 12 more years. His columns touched on a wide range of subjects from homesteading in the Pacific Northwest to people and places in the Southern California of yesteryear. You will read his account of an adventurous couple who sailed their canoe from San Diego to Panama in 1933; of his own adventure during Anaheim's disastrous flood; of the day lightning struck the oil tank farm in Brea; of failed dreams and of dreamers who struck it rich. He pays tribute to the simple things in life: to haywire, the ragbag, grandma's featherbed, to fronteir ingenuity and hard work. His writings are informative, delightfully brief and laced with homespun humor. --- from book's back cover