ATOMIC FARMGIRL: THE BETRAYAL OF CHIEF QUALCHAN, THE APPALOOSA AND ME
by Hein, Teri
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About This Item
2000. 2000 Hein, Teri ATOMIC FARMGIRL: THE BETRAYAL OF CHIEF QUALCHAN, THE APPALOOSA AND ME Golden, CO: Fulcrum, c2000 first printing 255pp 8vo New copy in d/w.
Synopsis
Atomic Farmgirl is a wise, irreverent, deeply personal story of growing up right in the wrong place. The granddaughter of German Lutheran homesteaders, Teri Hein was raised in the 1950s and 1960s in rural eastern Washington. This starkly elegant landscape serves as the poignant backdrop to her story, for one hundred miles to the south of this idyllic, all-American setting lay the toxins — both mental and physical — of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. From horseback riding to haying, Flag Day parades to Cold War duck-and-cover drills, Atomic Farmgirl chronicles a peculiar coming of age for a young girl and her community of hardworking, patriotic folk, whose way of life — and livelihood — are gradually threatened by the poisons of progress. Combining a profoundly tender story of youth with politics and an unmistakable sense of place, Teri Hein has written a memoir that is part Terry Tempest Williams, part Erin Brockovich, part Garrison Keillor. In the end, she offers a rich and ribald journey into the universal mysteries of childhood, love, community, and home, a journey that confirms humankind’s infinite capacity for hope.
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- Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
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- Title
- ATOMIC FARMGIRL: THE BETRAYAL OF CHIEF QUALCHAN, THE APPALOOSA AND ME
- Author
- Hein, Teri
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
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- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- BIO , AM
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About Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
30,000 books in stock, with special emphasis on gardening,
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Established 1977, member ABAA/ILAB
art and textiles, poetry, children\'s and illustrated, Missouriana, antiquarian books.
Prints and maps are stocked as well.
Established 1977, member ABAA/ILAB
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