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One degree west : reflections of a plainsdaughter / Julene Bair.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 8036
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bair, Julene, author.
- Series:
- Columbia Northwest classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bair, Julene--Homes and haunts--Kansas.
- Bair, Julene.
- Bair, Julene--Childhood and youth.
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Kansas.
- Authors, American.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Kansas--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Kansas.
- Kansas--Social life and customs.
- Rural families--Kansas.
- Rural families.
- Farm life--Kansas.
- Farm life.
- Childhood and youth of a person.
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts.
- Homes.
- Intellectual life.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 182 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN. : Mid-List Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Essays on one woman's connections to her family and the land; reflections on farm life in Kansas.
- Contents:
- Disappearances
- Scattered wheat
- Housewives, fieldhusbands
- Reaching down
- Inside spaces
- Beacons
- The gleaners
- Life in space
- At forty-five
- Wheat harvest, 1997
- The tossed purse.
- Notes:
- "First series--creative nonfiction."
- Willa Literary Award for memoir or essay, 2001.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 8036: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Ink inscription with author's autograph on title page: To Lisa - Thanks for your encouraging comments, Julene Bair.
- ISBN:
- 0922811458
- 9780922811458
- OCLC:
- 43648582
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