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    Oh How Can I Keep on Singing?: Voices of Pioneer Women
    Oh How Can I Keep on Singing?: Voices of Pioneer Women
    Oh How Can I Keep on Singing?: Voices of Pioneer Women
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    Oh How Can I Keep on Singing?: Voices of Pioneer Women

    By Jana Harris

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    When Washington Territory was created, the narrow, isolated Okanogan River Valley was considered a wasteland and an Indian reservation, the Chief Joseph Reserve, was established there. But when silver was discovered near what became Ruby City, the land was re-appropriated, and the Native Americans were moved to a more confined area. The Okanogan was then opened up to white homesteaders, with the hope of making the area more attractive to miners.
     
    The interconnected dramatic monologues in Oh How Can I Keep On Singing? are the stories of the forgotten women who settled the Okanogan in the late nineteenth century, arriving by horse-drawn cart to a place that purported to have such fine weather that a barn was unnecessary for raising livestock. Not all of the newcomers survived the cattle-killing winter of 1893. Of those who did, some would not have survived if the indigenous people had not helped them.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateAug 4, 2015
    ISBN9781504018852
    Oh How Can I Keep on Singing?: Voices of Pioneer Women
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    Jana Harris

     Jana Harris is a poet, novelist, short story writer, and essayist who teaches creative writing at the University of Washington and is a Washington State Governor’s Writers Award and Andres Berger Award winner, as well as a PEN West Center Award finalist. She won a Pushcart Prize for poetry in 2001 and is editor and founder of Switched-on Gutenberg, one of the first electronic global poetry journals. She lives in the Cascade Mountains with her husband, where they raise horses.

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