On Coon Mountain: Scenes from a Childhood in the Oklahoma Hills (Modern History Series; 15)
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (811 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0806124059 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 185 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Story-telling at its Best Sharon Kisker I truly enjoyed this book of yarns. Most people would probablylike the book, however, it was a nostalgia trip for me. I wasborn and grew up in the same area, just a few years later. Manyof the sites and names were quite familiar. I am purchasinganother one to send my brother.. "On Coon Mountain" according to Helen M Hahn. I grew up in that area. It was exactly as things were in that time period. Also, so many people mentioned were known to me. I love the book. Good job!!
Glen Ross, the author of short stories and The Last Campaign, a well-received novel drawn from his experiences as a serviceman in Korea, has taught creative writing for more than two decades at Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma.
Glen Ross's lucid, appealing narratives pull us back into a time when children picked corn, peaches, strawberries--whatever was in season--and trapped animals, when a woman had to make hominy beginning with seed corn grown on the farm, and men met the challenges of horse-drawn equipment as they farmed, hunted, and fished to eke out a living with their families. A part of the Cherokee Nation during Indian Territory days, it was home to a rural community mostly of white and Cherokee farmers by the time Glen Ross was born there in 1929--which could have been 1829, for all the difference twentieth-century industry had made. These autobiographical essays tell us what was special about the rural Americans of the Great Depression and World War II--about their resourcefulness, humor, and love of the land. As Ross grew up, the depression deepened. Their battery-powered radio toldthem of the war in Europe, even as it entertained the women with the early-day soaps. Eventually, war work was to draw the f
Ross (Creative Writing/Central State Univ., Edmond, Oklahoma) was born in 1929 on an Oklahoma homestead above the slopes of a mountain named not after raccoons but after the original Cherokee owners. (He once sold his favorite blue-tick hound for a year's income, but had to buy the dog back to keep peace in the family.) Ross himself is a master of the old American art of storytelling. From Kirkus Reviews Autobiographical tales, told with elegant simplicity, of a boyhood spent among the rocky bluffs and woods of Cherokee country. A railroad line was put in 20 miles away, and by turning pigs into the woods, letting them multiply, and herding them out, Garrison and the preacher's sons made thousands, permitting Garrison to get his own home. Garrison