Voices from This Long Brown Land: Oral Recollections of Owens Valley Lives and Manzanar Pasts

Description

In this engaging oral history, residents of California's scenic, sparsely-populated Owens Valley reflect on their varied experiences with the region's turbulent past. Contested themes of Native American removal, water transfers, and wartime internment are interwoven with remembrances of the valley's multicultural communities, its cattle ranching and agriculture, and its Western filmmaking, railroad, and mining enterprises. Together, author and narrators create an accessible and richly textured work of history, memory, and place. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Introduction (Jane Wehrey)....Pages 1-26 Nettie Roeper Fausel (1874–1968) (Jane Wehrey)....Pages 29-35 W.C. “Stub” Lydston (1870–1957) (Jane Wehrey)....Pages 37-42 Truman Buff (1906–1996) (Jane Wehrey)....Pages 43-57 Vic Taylor (1910–2001) (Jane Wehrey)....Pages 59-77 Emily Roddy (b. 1911) (Jane Wehrey)....Pages 79-93 Concha Lozano Salas (1915–2003) (Jane Wehrey)....Pages 95-107 Owen Cooper (b. 1916) (Jane Wehrey)....Pages 109-121 LaVerne Reynolds Zediker (1919–1996) (Jane Wehrey)....Pages 123-136 Ritsuko Eder (b. 1917), Doris Semura (1912–2005), Dawn Kashitani (b. 1910) (Jane Wehrey)....Pages 137-147 Nancy Connor Zischank (1907–2000) (Jane Wehrey)....Pages 149-167 Mary Kageyama Nomura (b. 1925) (Jane Wehrey)....Pages 169-185 Keith Bright (b. 1915) (Jane Wehrey)....Pages 187-204 Afterword (Jane Wehrey)....Pages 205-206 Back Matter ....Pages 207-238