Beginner's luck : dispatches from the Klamath Mountains
- Title
- Beginner's luck : dispatches from the Klamath Mountains / Malcolm Terence.
- Published by
- Corvallis, OR : Oregon State University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
- Author
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Details
- Description
- 236 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Explores the author's life in a commune at Black Bear Ranch, established in a remote area of the Klamath Mountains near the California-Oregon border in the 1960s, and his subsequent move to a nearby rural town, where he worked variously logging, gold mining, and growing marijuana, all the while negotiating complex relationships with the local residents, including Native American population."--Provided by publisher.
- Alternative title
- Dispatches from the Klamath Mountains
- Subject
- Counterculture
- Hippies
- Communal living
- California, Northern
- 1900-1999
- California, Northern > Biography
- Communal living > California > Siskiyou County
- Counterculture > California, Northern > History > 20th century
- Logging > Environmental aspects > California, Northern
- Rural conditions
- History
- California, Northern > Rural conditions
- Biography
- Hippies > California > Siskiyou County > Biography
- Country life > California, Northern
- Terence, Malcolm
- Klamath Mountains (Calif. and Or.) > Biography
- California > Siskiyou County
- Mountain life > Klamath Mountains (Calif. and Or.)
- United States > Klamath Mountains
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- History.
- Contents
- Hall of Justice -- The recipe for chimichangas, or how I saved the commune -- Escaping utopia -- White bear -- Swimming with the sharks -- The company loves misery -- Playing with fire -- Meet the famous Flores sisters -- Winter sun -- Water and love -- Storming Oz -- Born at Butler Creek -- Coyote's aunt -- Sorting forest from the trees -- Blue paint rule book -- Drift smoke and blackberries -- Pink slips and strawberries -- Beginner's luck -- Saloon -- Torches, pitchforks, and other organizing tools -- "Thank you for your input" -- Cooperation, collaboration, and other four-letter words; an epilogue.
- Call number
- JFE 18-5891
- Author
- Terence, Malcolm, author.
- Title
- Beginner's luck : dispatches from the Klamath Mountains / Malcolm Terence.
- Publisher
- Corvallis, OR : Oregon State University Press, 2018.
- Copyright date
- ©2018
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Chronological term
- 1900-1999
- Other form:
- Online version: Terence, Malcolm, author. Beginner's luck Corvallis, OR : Oregon State University Press, [2018] 9780870719356 (DLC) 2018021951
- LCCN
- 2018006157
- ISBN
- 9780870719349 original trade paperback alkaline paper
- 0870719343 original trade paperback alkaline paper
- Research call number
- JFE 18-5891