University of Nevada Press
The Toughest Kid We Knew: The Old New West: A Personal History Volume 1
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- Frank Bergon
- University of Nevada Press
- Hardcover
- 9781948908641
- 8.6 X 5.8 X 0.9 inches
- 0.8 pounds
- Literary Collections > Essays
- English
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Communal camaraderie, love of the land and its food, and joy in hard work done well describe Western lives ignored or misrepresented in most histories of California and the West. Yet nostalgia does not drive Frank Bergon's intellectual return to that world. Also prevalent was a culture of fighting, ignorance about alcoholic addiction, brutalizing labor, and a feudal mentality that created a pain better lost and bid good riddance.
Through it all, what emerges from his portraits and essays is a revelation of small-town and ranch life in the rural West. A place where the American way of extirpating the past and violently altering the land is accelerated. What Bergon has written is a portrayal of a past and people shaping the country he called home.
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