Girl on a Pony - Couverture souple

Hanners, LaVerne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0806130555 ISBN 13 : 9780806130552

Editeur : University of Oklahoma Press, 1998

Synopsis

Girl on a Pony is the gritty, humorous, unflinchingly courageous story of five children growing up on a cattle ranch in the remote Valley of the Dry Cimarron in northeastern New Mexico near the little border town of Kenton, Oklahoma. Narrated years later by the oldest daughter, LaVerne, it is a vivid and authentic portrait of ranching life between the two world wars, from 1925, when the family moved to the Goodson Ranch from a half-dugout claim shack in Colorado, to 1936, when they began to disperse.

During those years, people in the region endured blizzards, sick and maddened animals, drought, the Dust Bowl, and the Great Depression-with stoic good humor. In Girl on a Pony, cowboys go about their daily tasks, teaching the children all they know. Women endure the hardships of life in an isolated area, coping with the brutal labor ranch life requires of them, and maintaining touches of beauty and civilization where they can-creating lawns from relentlessly rocky soil, holding dances for their children, and painstakingly tatting when all else fails.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

LaVerne Hanners was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Arkansas. She is the author (with Ed Lord) of The Lords of the Valley: Including the Complete Text of ?Our Unsheltered Lives, ? also published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Oklahoma Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0806130555
• ISBN 13: 9780806130552
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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