The Toughest Kid We Knew: The Old New West : A Personal History /

"In a companion book to Two-Buck Chuck & The Marlboro Man, Frank Bergon presents a vivid personal history of the place where he grew up and the people of immigrant and migrant heritage he knew in the overlooked and most productive agricultural region the United States-California's San...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bergon, Frank (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social conditions.
Manners and customs.
Cultural pluralism.
Diversite culturelle > Californie > San Joaquin, Vallee du.
Cultural pluralism > California > San Joaquin Valley.
California > San Joaquin Valley.
San Joaquin, Vallee du (Calif.) > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
San Joaquin, Vallee du (Calif.) > Moeurs et coutumes > 20e siecle.
San Joaquin Valley (Calif.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
San Joaquin Valley (Calif.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I: On the Ranch
  • My Basque Grandmother
  • Old Man Prosper
  • Reading Steinbeck
  • Seeing the Mountains
  • The Basque Nurse
  • The FBI Rancher
  • Magic in Cowboy Country
  • My L.A. Relatives
  • Part II: In the Valley
  • The Displaced Bearnais
  • King of the San Joaquin
  • Rose in a Country of Men
  • Chief Kit Fox Revisited
  • Reading Didion
  • Black Farm Kid and the Okies
  • The Toughest Kid We Knew
  • Basque Family Style
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author

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