New PDF release: Honyocker Dreams: Montana Memories

By David Mogen

Whether they have been really Hungarian or Bohemian, “Hunkies” or “Bohunks,” or perhaps from jap Europe in any respect, to the previous ranchers of the nice Plains, the farmers and settlers who moved in and fenced off the open land have been no-account “Honyockers.” And to Honyockers like David Mogen’s humans, who outfitted lives within the face of serious hassle and prejudice, the identify got here to undergo the entire that means and gear in their hard-won domestic position. it's this feeling of position, of tenacious if uneasy belonging, that David Mogen strains via his relatives heritage in Honyocker Dreams.

Beginning along with his father’s recollections as he surveys the Montana panorama, Mogen weaves a story of reminiscence and background, of the goals and disappointments of working-class farmers, cowboys, and miners between his ancestors, and of the post-frontier international of Indian reservations and farming cities that suffer at the Montana “Hi-Line,” the flat expanse of huge Sky nation that lies challenging opposed to the Canadian border east of the Rockies. From the frontier international of his mom and dad and pioneer ancestors to the boom-and-bust stories approximately becoming up within the small-town global of his personal Montana formative years within the Nineteen Fifties, Mogen travels complete circle to fresh trips that display the paradoxical burdens and strengths of his father’s cowboy legacy in addition to the hidden discomfort and therapeutic strength of his mother’s homesteading history. His is a trip that opens a window on a different yet little-known area of Montana and the West.

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