Portland: Binfords & Mort, Publishers, [1971]. Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), 166 pp + [24] plates. Fine, in a Very Good dust jacket with light edgewear. From jacket: It was a long jump from Beacon Street, Boston, to the homestead country of Central Oregon. In 1911, Section 21 was 640 acres of rattlesnake-infested sagebrush and juniper. Wild horses roamed that piece of land; coyotes prowled and howled at night. Even so, it was good, irrigable land, and the Crooked River flowed through it. The water rights plus the fine irrigation prospects sold Section 21 to my millionaire father. He, in turn, presented it to his daughter and son-in-law as a wedding present. And here Hal McCall built one of the finest dairy herds in Oregon, while wife Dorothy rode herd on five little McCalls -- Tom, Harry, Bebs, Sam, and Jean -- in a world of one-room schoolhouses, flooded rivers, and work in the hayfield...Were the stories told here fiction rather than the facts they are, we might be accused of exaggeration...There are fires, floods, and jack-rabbit drives; threatened foreclosures, gunplay, and even a juvenile dude ranch.

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On Jun 19 2011, CannyRose47012 said:

Have been reading a lot of Western ranch type books lately,because I am quite interested in the early Western history, & this one seems to offer the author's stories & anecdotes to the maximum. She writes of the ranch under the rimrock, & her family, both her own children & husband, plus her family of origin. The difference in this book is that the ranch in this story is in eastern Oregon. Yes, I would recommend this book to others. I especially like that I have have an "author signed" copy.

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Bookseller: Lighthousebooks, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 18193scs
Title: Ranch under the Rimrock.
Author: McCall, Dorothy Lawson
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Binfords & Mort, Publishers, [1971].
Place of Publication: Portland
Date Published: [1971]
Keywords: Oregon, Northwestern United States History, Americana.

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