The toughest kid we knew : the old New West : a personal history / Frank Bergon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bergon, Frank, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural pluralism--California--San Joaquin Valley.

Cultural pluralism.

San Joaquin Valley (Calif.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

San Joaquin Valley (Calif.).

San Joaquin Valley (Calif.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Manners and customs.

Social conditions.

California--San Joaquin Valley.

Physical Description:

206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2020]

Summary:

"In a companion book to Two-Buck Chuck & The Marlboro Man, Frank Bergon presents a vivid personal history of the place where he grew up and the people of immigrant and migrant heritage he knew in the overlooked and most productive agricultural region the United States-California's San Joaquin Valley-the New West of the twentieth century. If you want to understand how those from rural America think and feel today, you have to read this book"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I On the Ranch

My Basque Grandmother p. 10

Old Man Prosper p. 20

Reading Steinbeck p. 36

Seeing the Mountains p. 48

The Basque Nurse p. 57

The FBI Rancher p. 73

Magic in Cowboy Country p. 88

My L.A. Relatives p. 101

Part II In the Valley

The Displaced Béarnais p. 114

King of the San Joaquin p. 122

Rose in a Country of Men p. 130

Chief Kit Fox Revisited p. 146

Reading Didion p. 154

Black Farm Kid and the Okies p. 165

The Toughest Kid We Knew p. 173

Basque Family Style p. 193.

Other Format:

Online version: Bergon, Frank, 1943- The toughest kid we knew

ISBN:

9781948908641

1948908646

OCLC:

1130325585