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Raw material : working wool in the West

Title
Raw material : working wool in the West / Stephany Wilkes.
Author
Wilkes, Stephany
Publication
  • Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2018.
  • ©2018

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Description
xv, 272 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
"In Raw Material, Stephany Wilkes tells not only her own story, but also that of American wool. What begins as a knitter's search for local yarn becomes a dirty, unlikely, and irresistible side job. Wilkes become a certified sheep shearer and wool classer, working at the very first step in the textile supply chain, ultimately leaving her high-tech job for a new way of life considered long dead in the American West."--Provided by publisher.
Subject
  • Wilkes, Stephany
  • Sheep shearers (Persons) > West (U.S.) > Biography
  • Sheep industry > West (U.S.)
  • Wool industry > West (U.S.)
  • BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General
  • Sheep industry
  • Sheep shearers (Persons)
  • Wool industry
  • West United States
Genre/Form
  • Autobiography
  • autobiographies (literary works)
  • Autobiographies
  • Biographies
  • Autobiographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Emigrant -- Greenhorn -- Kindred -- Imposter -- Bale and sale -- Husbandry -- Mill -- Apprentice -- Barn raising -- Camaraderie -- Carbon farmer -- Shepherds -- Black sheep -- Bureaucracy -- Local color -- Slow money -- Flock -- Epilogue. Two years later.
ISBN
  • 9780870719516
  • 0870719513
  • 9780870719523 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2018024381
  • 40028628339
OCLC
  • on1028591611
  • 1028591611
  • SCSB-9202751
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library