Voices from This Long Brown Land: Oral Recollections of Owens Valley Lives and Manzanar Pasts (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (519 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312295413 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 238 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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What is more, Wehrey does so with the voices of local, primarily working-class people, empowering them to construct and invent the meaning of their communities' pasts.". "Wehrey's well-composed book makes accessible a region whose history has hitherto been fragmented in public consciousness and likely never considered in its own right
Together, author and narrators create an accessible and richly textured work of history, memory, and place.. In this engaging oral history, residents of California's scenic, sparsely-populated Owens Valley reflect on their varied experiences with the region's turbulent past. Contested themes of Native American removal, water transfers, and wartime internment are interwoven with remembrances of the valley's multicultural communities, its cattle ranching and agriculture, and its Western filmmaking, railroa
A dramatic and effective history told by the people who made it This series of oral history interviews includes a wide variety of folks, from the youngsters who first entered the valley as children of miners and railroad men, to the people who made some of the critical decisions determining the development (or lack of developme. "Very good" according to oldgal. There have been so many books written about the Owens Valley that it's hard to find one that's not just a bunch of repeats. This book has some fascinating new material and I'm glad I bought it.