River pigs & cayuses : oral histories from the Pacific Northwest

Strickland, Ron. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0870714945
ISBN: 9780870714948
Physical Description: print
xx, 155 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Edition: 1st Oregon State University Press ed.
Publisher: Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Originally published: San Francisco : Lexikos, 1984.

Formatted Contents Note:

Listening: Introduction to the New Edition / William Kittredge -- Introduction / Ron Strickland -- Fish Pirate / Bert "Spider" Jones -- Canoemaker / Andy Dick -- "I Always Fished by Myself" / Signe Ashland -- Skagit River Gambler / Mark Gilkey -- "Swing Her Round Like Swinging on a Gate" / Bill Robler -- "Crazy With Fiddling" / Theodore "Deke" Smith -- Tarheel Moonshiner / Ralph "Stogie" Parker -- Mulligan Stew / Gene Grush -- "Five Cents an Hour, Ten Hours a Day" / Al Coffelt -- Ice Harvest / Stanley Darwood -- Frontier Bride / Eva Beebee -- Barn Raisings and Harvesting Bees / Clara Fewkes -- Logging with a Swedish Fiddle / Joe Yocum -- Smokejumper / Francis Lufkin -- Logging Horses / Clyde Smith -- River Pig / Bert Wilke -- Timber Cruiser / Ralph Thayer -- Steelhead Water / Howard Miller -- Ninety Years in the Mountains / Glee Davis -- "It Takes Fifty Prospects to Make One Mine" / Bill Tilly -- Snow Geese and Salt Marshes / Harte Pentilla -- Hard Times at Thirty Below / Gaspar Petta -- A Step at a Time / Harvey Manning -- "We Wanted to Build a House" / Les More -- Family / Lowen Chin -- Sheepherder / Tom Drumheller -- "We'd Whistle and Sing to Hold Them Cattle" / Paul Louden -- Branding Iron Maker / Slim Worthen -- Cayuses / Foss Creveling, Bill Creveling -- "I Belong to the Cattle Ever After" / Ross Filer -- Refugee / Thong Nguyen.