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Sale!Ranch wife, cow camp cook, photo-journalist, and amateur historian Janie Tippett writes of her thirty-one years of newspaper columns chronicling the lives of cattle ranchers and hay farmers in the remote hills of rural northeast Oregon. Includes all 6 volumes, from 1984 - 2015.
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This unique collection of stories reveal memories of first- and second- generation descendants of families who migrated in the 1920s through the 1950s from the Jim Crow South to Maxville, a remote company railroad logging town in Wallowa County. The stories are bolstered by the 200 + photographs from the families and from local historical collections.