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Whether they were actually Hungarian or Bohemian, Hunkies or Bohunks, or even from Eastern Europe at all, to the old ranchers of the Great Plains, the farmers and settlers who moved in and fenced off the open land were no-account Honyockers. And to Honyockers like David Mogen's people, who built lives in the face of great difficulty and prejudice, the name came to bear all the meaning and power of their hard-won home place. It is this sense of place, of tenacious if uneasy belonging, that David Mogen traces through his family history in Honyocker Dreams. Beginning with his father's reminiscences as he surveys the Montana landscape, Mogen weaves a narrative of memory and history, of the dreams and disappointments of working-class farmers, cowboys, and miners among his ancestors, and of the post-frontier world of Indian reservations and farming towns that endure on the Montana Hi-Line, the flat expanse of Big Sky country that lies hard against the Canadian border east of the Rockies. From the frontier world of his parents and pioneer ancestors to the boom-and-bust tales about growing up in the small-town world of his own Montana childhood in the 1950s, Mogen travels full circle to recent journeys that reveal the paradoxical burdens and strengths of his father's cowboy legacy as well as the hidden pain and healing power of his mother's homesteading heritage. His is a journey that opens a window on a unique but little-known region of Montana and the West.Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press
ISBN-139780803225183
eBay Product ID (ePID)108284714
Product Key Features
Book TitleHonyocker Dreams: Montana Memories
AuthorDavid Mogen
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicLocal History, Memorials, History
Publication Year2011
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages248 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height216mm
Item Width140mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorDavid Mogen
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States