Homestead A Memoir by Kirkpatrick Jane Kirkpatrick
Brand: Whitaker House
Product Description
Joining her husband in the fight to create a home out of a rugged stretch of sagebrush rattlesnakes and sand in Eastern Oregon Jane Kirkpatrick uneasily relinquishes the security of a professional career the conveniences of electricity running water and a phone line and perhaps most daunting the pleasures of sporting a professional manicure. But the pull of the land is irresistible and the couple dreams of gathering their first harvest from a yettobeplanted vineyard. Rather than the simple life they had envisioned Jane and Jerry find themselves confronting flood and fire government bureaucracies and runaway calves among other disheartening setbacks. Jane frequently questions the sanity of pioneering in this remote area known as Starvation Point and she fights against panic with each trip they make down the sevenmile boulderstrewn rutcarved driveway she calls the reptile road which threatens to spill them into the ravine with every lurch of the truck. But as she learns to navigate her new life this novice rancher discovers that disappointment isolation and danger cant compete with the generosity of their rural community the strength of family bonds and the faithfulness of the God who planted in their hearts the dream of carving a refuge out of an inhospitable land. show more
Condition : New
Author : Kirkpatrick Jane Kirkpatrick
Weight : 476
Publisher : Whitaker House
Language : English
EAN : 9781629110059
ISBN10 : 1629110051
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20231031
Place of Publication : NA
Pagination : 304 Pages
Dimensions : 216 X 140