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By Etta Koch,June Cooper Price

ISBN-10: 0292743386

ISBN-13: 9780292743380

ISBN-10: 0292743394

ISBN-13: 9780292743397

a girl who went West along with her husband within the 1840s should have anticipated hardships and privation, yet in the course of the Forties, whilst Etta Koch stopped off in sizeable Bend along with her younger relatives and a 23-foot go back and forth trailer in tow, she expected not more than a civilized camping out journey among her previous domestic in Ohio and a brand new one in Arizona. It was once simply whilst she chanced on herself getting into an previous rock residence with no plumbing or electrical energy within the new tremendous Bend nationwide Park that Etta discovered, "From the sheltered lifetime of a urban lady of reasonable situations, I too must face the truth of frontier living."In this publication in keeping with her journals and letters, Etta Koch and her daughter June Cooper cost chronicle their family's first years (1944-1946) within the enormous Bend. Etta describes how her photographer husband Peter Koch turned captivated by means of the area as a spot for normal heritage filmmaking-and how she and their 3 younger daughters slowly tailored to a pioneer way of life in the course of his months' lengthy absences at the photo-lecture circuit. In bright, frequently funny anecdotes, she describes making the rock condominium right into a domestic, learning the Park carrier team of workers and different buddies, dealing with the neighborhood natural world, and, so much of all, studying to like the rugged panorama and the hardy people who name it home.

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