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- Light on the Devils: Coming of Age on the Klamath
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Oregon State University Press
summary
When Louise Wagenknecht’s family arrived in the remote logging town of Happy Camp in 1962, a boundless optimism reigned. Whites and Indians worked together in the woods and the lumber mills of northern California’s Klamath country. Logging and lumber mills, it seemed, would hold communities together forever.
But that booming prosperity would come to an end. Looking back on her teenage years spent along the Klamath River, Louise Wagenknecht recounts a vanishing way of life. She explores the dynamics of family relationships and the contradictions of being female in a western logging town in the 1960s. And she paints an evocative portrait of the landscape and her relationship with it.
Light on the Devils is a readable and elegant memoir of place. It will appeal to general readers interested in the Pacific Northwest, personal memoir, history, and natural history.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- p. vii
- Where It Ended
- pp. 1-6
- Sandbagged
- pp. 41-54
- Into the Woods
- pp. 55-61
- Pleistocene, Ho!
- pp. 62-73
- Deep Waters
- pp. 74-91
- When It Changed
- pp. 92-100
- Light on the Devils
- pp. 101-112
- On the Road in Middle Earth
- pp. 128-138
- Liz and Mark
- pp. 139-146
- The Girls of Springtime
- pp. 147-158
- Choices and Secrets
- pp. 159-166
- Fire on the Mountain
- pp. 167-181
- Departures
- pp. 206-215
- Bibliography
- p. 216
Additional Information
ISBN
9780870716508
Related ISBN(s)
9780870716119
MARC Record
OCLC
794698935
Pages
232
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No