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The flock / by Mary Austin ; illustrated by E. Boyd Smith ; with an afterword by Barney Nelson.
- Title
- The flock / by Mary Austin ; illustrated by E. Boyd Smith ; with an afterword by Barney Nelson.
- Author
- Austin, Mary, 1868-1934
- Publication
- Reno : University of Nevada Press, 2001.
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- Description
- 319 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "The Flock is based on Mary Austin's first-hand experiences. She met many shepherds while visiting the Tejon ranches of Edward Beale and Henry Miller and cultivated relationships with men others often thought of as ignorant, unambitious, and dirty, listening closely to their stories. Her neighbors were scandalized, but Austin respected the shepherds' ways of thinking. In The Flock she captures their way of life, not as part of a romantic bygone era, but as exemplifying potentially radical ways of living in and thinking about the world. She blends natural history, politics, and allegory in a genre-blurring narrative championing local shepherds in their losing battle against the quickly developing tourist business in the Western Sierra."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Western literature series
- Uniform Title
- Western literature series
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1906. With new afterword.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-319).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0874173558 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2001027394
- OCLC
- 46472230
- SCSB-12397719
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library