Jana Harris

Oh How Can I Keep on Singing?: Voices of Pioneer Women

Buch

When Washington Territory was created, the narrow, isolated Okanogan River Valley was considered a wasteland and an Indian reservation, the Chief Joseph Reserve, was established there. But when silver was discovered near what became Ruby City, the land was re-appropriated, and the Native Americans were moved to a more confined area. The Okanogan was then opened up to white homesteaders, with the hope of making the area more attractive to miners. The interconnected dramatic monologues in Oh How Can I Keep On Singing? are the stories of the forgotten women who settled the Okanogan in the late nineteenth century, arriving by horse-drawn cart to… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5040-1887-6
EAN: 9781504018876
Produktnummer: 19012291
Verlag: Open Road Distribution
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 136 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D0.8 cm 186 g
Gewicht: 186

Über den Autor

Jana Harris teaches creative writing at the University of Washington and at the Writer's Workshop in Seattle. She is an editor of Switched-on Gutenberg: A Global Poetry Journal, and the author of the memoir Horses Never Lie About Love and the poetry collection You Haven't Asked About My Wedding or What I Wore: Poems of Courtship on the American Frontier.