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Title Growing up western : recollections / by Dee Brown .. [and others] ; foreword by Larry McMurtry ; edited and with introductions by Clarus Backes..

Publication Info. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1990.

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  813.08 Q    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 24 cm
Summary Seven well-known Western writers, all now in their eighties, describe their experiences growing up in the West in the early part of the twentieth century.
Contents It was a magical time / Dee Brown -- A small town in Montana / A.B. Guthrie, Jr. -- Bonanza land / David Lavender -- How I put in the time / Wright Morris -- Leaving the fold: a boyhood in Oregon / Clyde Rice -- Finding the place / Wallace Stegner -- The changing and unchangeable West / Frank Waters.
Subject Authors, American -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs.
West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Authors, American -- West (U.S.)
Added Author Brown, Dee, 1908-2002.
Backes, Clarus, 1935-1988.
ISBN 0394573935: $22.95
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