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Beginner's Luck : Dispatches from the Klamath Mountains
Author
Title
Beginner's Luck : Dispatches from the Klamath Mountains / Malcolm Terence.
ISBN
9780870719356
9780870719349
Publication
Corvallis, OR : Oregon State University Press, 2018.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource (236 pages): illustrations
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"Explores the author's life in a commune at Black Bear Ranch, established in a remote area of the Klamath Mountains near the California-Oregon border in the 1960s, and his subsequent move to a nearby rural town, where he worked variously logging, gold mining, and growing marijuana, all the while negotiating complex relationships with the local residents, including Native American population."--Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE books annual backfile collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 13, 2023
Contents
Hall of Justice
The recipe for chimichangas, or how I saved the commune
Escaping utopia
White bear
Swimming with the sharks
The company loves misery
Playing with fire
Meet the famous Flores sisters
Winter sun
Water and love
Storming Oz
Born at Butler Creek
Coyote's aunt
Sorting forest from the trees
Blue paint rule book
Drift smoke and blackberries
Pink slips and strawberries
Beginner's luck
Saloon
Torches, pitchforks, and other organizing tools
"Thank you for your input"
Cooperation, collaboration, and other four-letter words; an epilogue.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Autobiographies.
History.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
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