Beloved Homeland Growing up on a Wyoming Homestead |
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| Author:
| Booher, Patricia |
| Memoir by:
| Booher, Patricia |
| Original Author:
| Booher, Patricia |
| Interviewer:
| Booher, Patricia |
| Research by:
| Booher, Patricia |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9601025-1-8 |
| Publication Date: | May 2020 |
| Publisher: | Rock Pavilion Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $7.00 |
Book Description:
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This is the true story of young war veterans and their young families. They came to live on homesteads carved out of virgin soil in a rugged windswept place in northern Wyoming in 1950 to begin life anew after WWII. I was six years old when I came with my parents up over the Rocky Mountains from southern California to see snow for the first time in my young life. I have called this work of love of family and community "Beloved Homeland, Growing up on a Wyoming Homestead." None of our...
More DescriptionThis is the true story of young war veterans and their young families. They came to live on homesteads carved out of virgin soil in a rugged windswept place in northern Wyoming in 1950 to begin life anew after WWII. I was six years old when I came with my parents up over the Rocky Mountains from southern California to see snow for the first time in my young life. I have called this work of love of family and community "Beloved Homeland, Growing up on a Wyoming Homestead." None of our young parents had money but we all considered ourselves rich in those early years, living in black tar paper covered barrack from the near-by vacant Japanese Relocation Center. They were described as the Greatest Generation in the works of Tom Brokaw. Most of those WWII veterans are no longer with us but they bring to our nation a hint of raw courage. How little did I realize as a young girl growing up in a homestead community in northern Wyoming that one day I too would launch out in an adventure which would soon take on a life of its own? This is a non-fiction historical narrative which has evolved out of the Qualitative Research I have conducted while on faculty with the University of Wyoming. This is the story young families that came from many parts of the country to begin life anew developing a homestead community with the challenges of a harsh climate and limited finances. The historical data coupled with my own specialization in Family Resiliency, have woven a story of family strength and a community cohesiveness that has been passed onto the third generations of families.