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The Garr Family Saga The Connecting Power Of Oral Narrative, Margaret Garr Jaggi
The Garr Family Saga The Connecting Power Of Oral Narrative, Margaret Garr Jaggi
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
When I was a child, my mother often told me a "true" story about a beautiful Shoshone maiden who married a handsome American cowboy. The setting was the 1850s in the fertile valley of Cache County, Utah. The man's name was John Turner Garr and the woman was called Susie. This young couple was my paternal great-great grandparents. Together they lived a life that defied their disparate cultures. I envisioned them, young, wild, and free; he, dressed in buckskin leggings, riding among the Shoshone men; she, in soft doeskin supporting a papoose on her back. The idyllic life of my …
Beacon In The Night: Contested Space And Regional Culture On The Central Oregon Coast, Melissa Román
Beacon In The Night: Contested Space And Regional Culture On The Central Oregon Coast, Melissa Román
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Regional identity and contested space were explored through the lens of four central Oregon Coast lighthouses. These beacons offered a look into the settlement of the Pacific Northwest and the complexity of contested space. Not only did the sentinels sit at the edge of a human battle with nature, but the keepers and their families lived in problematic conditions as well (both domestic and environmental). The living quarters and outbuildings provided by the U.S. Lighthouse Board illustrated the cultural tastes of the period and the distillation of those tastes throughout the country as the nation expanded into and throughout the …