Voices from This Long Brown Land: Oral Recollections of Owens Valley Lives and Manzanar Pasts

In this engaging oral history, residents of California's scenic, sparsely-populated Owens Valley reflect on their varied experiences with the region's turbulent past. Contested themes of Native American removal, water transfers, and wartime internment are interwoven with remembrances of the valley's multicultural communities, its cattle ranching and agriculture, and its Western filmmaking, railroad, and mining enterprises. Together, author and narrators create an accessible and richly textured work of history, memory, and place.


Author: Na Na
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/01/2006
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.30w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780312295417

About the Author
Jane Wehrey is a Research Associate with the Oral History Program, California State University-Fullerton.