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"We four Kelton boys were rich. It was not because we had money, for we didn't. Money was always a short commodity in the 1930sand early 1940s. We were rich because we got to do for free what many people...

David Lee Thompson first introduced his readers to his 1940s and '50s Appalachian boyhood in "A Framework for Happiness," which appeared in a book entitled THE LIFE WRITING CLASS. Now, in RIVER OF MEMORIES, he shares the rest of these...

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History and geography helped give the Drakes their identities: they knew who they were because they knew where they were and when they were, with no alienation from either time or place. Their lives were thus whole and full. Their...

In a searing memoir of a fmaily torn apart by exile, Perez Firmat chronicles the painful search for roots that has come to dominate his adult life. Now, married to an American woman, and father to two children who are...

This book tells the fascinating story of an Athabascan-Irish family's journey from the old ways to the more modern but uncertain world of the twentieth century. Publishers Weekly Opening this intriguing but insular memoir with a crucial memory from her...

Texas Women on the Cattle Trails tells the stories of sixteen women who drove cattle up the trail from Texas during the last half of the nineteenth century.Some were young; some were old (over thirty). Some took to the trails...

<p>"Summers, I live at fishcamp. June through August, Mondays and Fridays, my partner and I catch and sell salmon that pass our beach on their way to spawning streams. The rest of the week, and parts of May and September,...

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