South Fork Country / SIGNED / Bob Powers / and 50 similar items

Condition: Good. SIGNED! Personalized (See Photos)! Packed in a BOX with cardboard backing and padding. (See Photos!) Pages: small numbers written on title page, otherwise, not written on, clean, bright, odor free. Dust Jacket: clean, bright, heavy rubbing and many small tears to edges, missing parts of top edges and bottom spine. Same or next day shipping (weekdays and Saturdays)! Ships from California. ABOUT: RURAL AMERICA is the cradle of the nation's greatness. As urban growth chews more deeply into what was once broad acres, grazing land and timber, the irreplaceable national loss becomes ever more apparent. In the mountain country, and the little lost pockets of ranchland and townships, are the last holdouts of a way of life that is rich, satisfying, and nostalgic in remembrance. Such a place is the South Fork of the Kern River. SOUTH FORK COUNTRY is Bob Powers' chronicle of the land of his birth and lifetime, and of the people who were his friends, kinsmen, and neighbors. It is an intimate, honest, touching portrayal of the people who lived out their lives in one of the most spectacular and historical areas of California's high country. This book tells of the land they loved, and how this mountain wilderness shaped their existence to greatness or defeat. It could have been written only by a man dedicated to a deep and abiding dream. It tells of many things?of the earliest settlers of the ranches?of the cattle kings?of the towns-folk of Kernville, Isabella, Onyx, Weldon, and the more remote mountain ghost towns which are no more. It tells of the miners who struck it rich, and of some who did not. It tells of the high country, and the author's deep concern for the still unspoiled wilderness of the timberland and mountain meadows. It is rich in human detail, and humble and earthy in its telling. It is one man's testament to a fast vanishing way of life that was physically rough, but soul-satisfying. Chapter by chapter it opens up such mountain areas as The Canebrake, The Piutes, and the Dome Land Wilderness. It talks intimately of such pioneer cattle spreads as the Bloomfield Ranch, the Smith Ranch, the A. Brown holdings, -et the ranches of Landers, Petersen, and Patterson. It dwells on many of the South Fork's fabulous characters ? Indians, cowboys, miners, and the business entrepreneurs of those towns still alive, vanished, or now under the waters of Lake Isa-bella. Here religion and lawlessness existed side by side. Churchmen and outlaws made the South Fork lively and real. Even the tracking down of the killers of a beloved one-legged marshal, Johnny Powers, is excitingly chronicled. SOUTH FORK COUNTRY is an honest and un adorned tale of a small and fundamental section of America. The reader will discover how good rig it is to get acquainted with the folks of the South Fork. And if the country seems high, rural and mountainous, there are four excellent maps to make one happily acquainted with its places. PAUL BAILEY.