Honyocker Dreams
eBook - ePub

Honyocker Dreams

Montana Memories

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Honyocker Dreams

Montana Memories

About this book

Whether they were actually Hungarian or Bohemian, “Hunkies” or “Bohunks,” or even from Eastern Europe at all, to the old ranchers of the Great Plains, the farmers and settlers who moved in and fenced off the open land were no-account “Honyockers.” And to Honyockers like David Mogen’s people, who built lives in the face of great difficulty and prejudice, the name came to bear all the meaning and power of their hard-won home place. It is this sense of place, of tenacious if uneasy belonging, that David Mogen traces through his family history in Honyocker Dreams.
 
Beginning with his father’s reminiscences as he surveys the Montana landscape, Mogen weaves a narrative of memory and history, of the dreams and disappointments of working-class farmers, cowboys, and miners among his ancestors, and of the post-frontier world of Indian reservations and farming towns that endure on the Montana “Hi-Line,” the flat expanse of Big Sky country that lies hard against the Canadian border east of the Rockies. From the frontier world of his parents and pioneer ancestors to the boom-and-bust tales about growing up in the small-town world of his own Montana childhood in the 1950s, Mogen travels full circle to recent journeys that reveal the paradoxical burdens and strengths of his father’s cowboy legacy as well as the hidden pain and healing power of his mother’s homesteading heritage. His is a journey that opens a window on a unique but little-known region of Montana and the West.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Endings and Beginnings
  8. Riding the Yellowstone Trail
  9. Journeys East and West
  10. Leaving Home
  11. Honyocker Dreams
  12. Homing in on the Hi-Line
  13. Finding Home
  14. Strip-Housing Days
  15. Hudson Years on the Rocky Boys Reservation
  16. The Whitewater Time Warp
  17. Two Worlds, Fort Peck Reservation
  18. Frazer Lake
  19. Cruising Main
  20. Boom and Bust
  21. Closing the Circle
  22. Iniskim
  23. Searching for Marcus Daly
  24. Beside the Stillwater
  25. Will the Circle be Unbroken?
  26. Riding the Hi-Line into the Past
  27. Epilogue
  28. Healing Dreams
  29. Bibliographical Essay