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Author Shelton, Richard, 1933-2022, author

Title Nobody rich or famous : a family memoir / Richard Shelton
Published Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016

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Contents Prologue; Part I. Hazel and Red: Six Boise Scenes; July 1920; June 1933; October 1936; July 1938; December 1940; October 1951; Part II. Midwestern Interlude; Josie's Journal; Searching for Josie; Searching for Martha; Searching for Phebe; Part III. Going Down the Valley; Flume Street; Horse Thieves; The Ranch; The Celestials; Too Long at the Fair; Eagle to Star; The Ranch II; The Romance; Part IV. Charlotte's Journals; The Network; Into the Woods; Bayview; Back to Boise; O! California; San Bernardino; Back to Boise II; Part V. Hazel's Journals; Moses Lake and Other Miseries
Broad StreetCentral School; Films; Hands; Part VI. Beautiful; Father and Sons; Hands II; Nobody Rich or Famous; Beautiful
Summary Nobody Rich or Famous is a literary memoir about family and place. Shelton travels to his childhood home in rural Idaho to connect with his past and discover his family history. The manuscript touches upon family dynamics, death and mortality, alcoholism, abusive relationships, and life in the rural and urban West. The book simultaneously exposes the conflicts within Shelton's family while illustrating life in Great Basin during the first half of the 20th century
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Subject Shelton, Richard, 1933-2022 -- Homes and haunts -- Idaho -- Boise River Valley
Shelton, Richard, 1933-2022 -- Anecdotes
Shelton, Richard, 1933-2022 -- Family
SUBJECT Shelton, Richard, 1933- -- Homes and haunts -- Idaho -- Boise River Valley
Shelton, Richard, 1933- -- Anecdotes
Shelton, Richard, 1933- -- Family
Shelton, Richard, 1933- fast
Subject HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Families
Homes
Travel
SUBJECT Boise River Valley (Idaho) -- Description and travel
Subject Idaho -- Boise River Valley
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Anecdotes
Autobiographies
Biographies
Anecdotes.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Anecdotes.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816534463
0816534462