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    Lizards on the Mantel, Burros at the Door: A Big Bend Memoir
    Lizards on the Mantel, Burros at the Door: A Big Bend Memoir
    Lizards on the Mantel, Burros at the Door: A Big Bend Memoir
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    Lizards on the Mantel, Burros at the Door: A Big Bend Memoir

    By Etta Koch and June Cooper Price

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    A warm, witty memoir of a young family’s rugged adventure living in the newly established Big Bend National Park in the 1940s.
     
    A woman who went West with her husband in the 1840s must have expected hardships and privation, but during the 1940s, when Etta Koch stopped off in Big Bend with her young family and a twenty-three-foot travel trailer in tow—which they named Porky, the Road Hog—she anticipated a brief, civilized camping trip between her old home in Ohio and a new one in Arizona. It was only when she found herself moving into an old rock house without plumbing or electricity in the new Big Bend National Park that Etta realized she’d left her sheltered life behind for an experience in frontier living.
     
    In this book based on her journals and letters, Etta Koch and her daughter June Cooper Price chronicle their family’s first years—1944–1946—in the Big Bend. Etta describes how her photographer husband Peter Koch became captivated by the region as a place for natural history filmmaking—and how she and their three young daughters slowly adapted to a pioneer lifestyle during his months-long absences on the photo-lecture circuit. In vivid, often humorous anecdotes, she describes making the rock house into a home, getting to know the Park Service personnel and other neighbors, coping with the local wildlife, and, most of all, learning to love the rugged landscape and the hardy individuals who call it home.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJul 5, 2010
    ISBN9780292788428
    Lizards on the Mantel, Burros at the Door: A Big Bend Memoir

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      This is a wonderful book. I know I'm biased, as I lived in Big Ben National Park in 1957 and 1958, and met Etta and Peter Koch. None-the-less, although I lived there 11+ years after the events she describes in the book, it was still very remote and isolated, and a delightful place for an 8 year old to spend time. Reading the book really took me back.

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