Temperance Creek, a memoir, Pamela Royes
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Temperance Creek, a memoir, Pamela Royes
Language
eng
resource.biographical
collective biography
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Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Temperance Creek
Oclc number
922911648
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Pamela Royes
Sub title
a memoir
Summary
"In the austere beauty and natural reality of Hells Canyon in Eastern Oregon, one hundred miles from pavement, Pam has a chance encounter with returning Vietnam veteran Skip Royes. Skip, looking for a bridge from survival back to connection, introduces Pam to the vanishing culture of the wandering shepherd, and together they embark on a four-year sojourn into the wilderness. From the back of a horse, Pam leads her packstring of readers from overlook to water crossing, down trails thousands of years old, and from the vantages she chooses for us, we feel the edges of our own experiences. It is a memoir of falling in love with a place and a man and the price extracted for that love."--Page [4] of cover
Table Of Contents
Foreword / by Teresa Jordan -- Prologue: River rising: spring, 2015 -- Part one: Daughter of the plains. Daughter of the plains -- Mare's tails -- What we don't say -- When I ran away -- Christmas 1975 -- Part two: No country for fools. Wallowa country -- Night Creek -- Confluence -- Junctions -- Hittin' the trail -- Making camp -- What I learned about Skip -- Rastling -- Battle Creek -- Falling into place -- Temperance Creek -- Marking corrals -- Minding the starter -- No country for fools -- Haying and a river crossing -- Part three: Mixed blessings. Idaho -- The Horse Ranch -- Snowed In -- The high mountains -- Travels with John Daniels -- The murmur of small things -- Duck Creek -- Something to do with trust -- Cowboys and sheepherders -- A visit home -- Counting sheep -- Bum count -- Mixed blessings -- A letter from home -- Campfire stories -- Christmas on Pony Bar -- Part four: Finding home. Winter camp -- Use it or lose It -- Hand rolled -- Apple cider blues -- Matters of survival -- Hitched -- Round two -- Good medicine -- Caught out in the dark -- A tentative embrace -- Unfamiliar country -- Sodbusters -- Bridge building-- Every other darn thing -- Epilogue: Down to the river: fall, 2015
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