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- catalog abstract ""'Skookum' is the startlingly original narrative rendering of the experiences of a prominent westering family from 1843 to the present. The remarkable story of the Applegate family encompasses many of the predominant themes of the early American West: the overland crossing via the old Oregon Tail in 1843, the quirky restlessness of Applegate men who, after reaching the 'promised land,' permitted their travel- worn families to rest only for a while, the effects of the intermit- tent gold rushes that continued to upset family lifre long after 1849, the troubled relations between the settler and the Indian ... Shannon Applegate is interested not only in what happemned to her family, but in what it meant to them. How did it feel to be a mother witnessing the death of her child on the way to Oregon, or to be a settler's son watching his Indian friends and old playmates rounded up in the dead of winter and marched off to the reserves? What did it do to the course of a young woman's life when she learned that her father has scratched her name from the family Bible? What sort of world was it where an old blue sugar bowl filled with gold dust could be unconcernedly set out in plain sight?"--From paper dustcover.".
- catalog contributor b3373913.
- catalog coverage "Oregon Biography.".
- catalog coverage "Oregon Genealogy.".
- catalog created "c1988.".
- catalog date "1988".
- catalog date "c1988.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1988.".
- catalog description ""'Skookum' is the startlingly original narrative rendering of the experiences of a prominent westering family from 1843 to the present. The remarkable story of the Applegate family encompasses many of the predominant themes of the early American West: the overland crossing via the old Oregon Tail in 1843, the quirky restlessness of Applegate men who, after reaching the 'promised land,' permitted their travel- worn families to rest only for a while, the effects of the intermit- tent gold rushes that continued to upset family lifre long after 1849, the troubled relations between the settler and the Indian ... Shannon Applegate is interested not only in what happemned to her family, but in what it meant to them. How did it feel to be a mother witnessing the death of her child on the way to Oregon, or to be a settler's son watching his Indian friends and old playmates rounded up in the dead of winter and marched off to the reserves? What did it do to the course of a young woman's life when she learned that her father has scratched her name from the family Bible? What sort of world was it where an old blue sugar bowl filled with gold dust could be unconcernedly set out in plain sight?"--From paper dustcover.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 431-441.".
- catalog extent "460 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Skookum.".
- catalog identifier "0688053505".
- catalog identifier "0688095127".
- catalog isFormatOf "Skookum.".
- catalog issued "1988".
- catalog issued "c1988.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Beech Tree Books,".
- catalog relation "Skookum.".
- catalog spatial "Oregon Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Oregon Genealogy.".
- catalog spatial "Oregon".
- catalog spatial "Oregon.".
- catalog subject "929/.2/0973 19".
- catalog subject "Applegate family.".
- catalog subject "CT274.A77 A77 1988".
- catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life Oregon.".
- catalog subject "Pioneers Oregon Biography.".
- catalog subject "Women pioneers Oregon Biography.".
- catalog title "Skookum : an Oregon pioneer family's history and lore / Shannon Applegate.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Genealogy. fast".
- catalog type "text".