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On Coon Mountain : Scenes From a Childhood in the Oklahoma Hills
author
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Ross, Glen.
publisher
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University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin
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0806124059
print isbn13
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9780806124056
ebook isbn13
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9780585146010
language
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English
subject
Ross, Glen,--1929- --Childhood and youth, English teachers--United States--Biography, Authors, American--20th century--Biography, Oklahoma--Social life and customs.
publication date
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1992
lcc
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PE64.R67A3 1992eb
ddc
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420/.71/173
subject
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Ross, Glen,--1929- --Childhood and youth, English teachers--United States--Biography, Authors, American--20th century--Biography, Oklahoma--Social life and customs.
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On Coon Mountain
Scenes from a Childhood in the Oklahoma Hills
By Glen Ross
University of Oklahoma Press: Norman and London
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By Glen Ross
The Last Campaign: A Novel of Korea (New York, 1962; 1965) On Coon Mountain: Scenes from a Childhood in the Oklahoma Hills (Norman, 1992)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ross, Glen, 1929 On Coon Mountain: scenes from a childhood in the Oklahoma hills / by Glen Ross.1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 0-8061-2405-9 (alk. paper) 1. Ross, Glen, 1929 BiographyYouth. 2. English teachersUnited StatesBiography. 3. Authors, American 20th centuryBiography. 4. OklahomaSocial life and and cus toms. I. Title. PE64.R67A3 1992 420'.71'173dc20 [B] 91-29392 CIP
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc.
Copyright 1992 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. First edition.
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Contents
1 Wauhillau ("Where Eagles Nest")
3
2 The Mancatcher Allotment
11
3 Blue
25
4 The Old Home Place
32
5 Spring Water
42
6 Faces in the Firelight
48
7 Thunder at Night
61
8 A Kite Tale
73
9 Baling Wire and Binder Twine
78
10 Small Wars
87
11 The Hills of Summer
92
12 Deep Leaves
99
13 Wild Honey
109
14 Trap Lines
116
15 Corn Planter
123
16 Night Hunters
130
17 1936
138
18 Flint: The Cherokee Connection
146
19 The News
153
20 My Uncle's Store
162
21 Picking Things
170
22 Three Knives
177
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1 Wauhillau ("Where Eagles Nest")
I was born in the house above the gray bluff on Coon Mountain, in what was once the Indian Territory, during a thunderstorm on the seventh of August, 1929. I had no choice in the matter; but if I had been consulted I might not have agreed to the terms, because the years that followed were years of calamity.
My father had to drive to town to get the doctor on that sultry August afternoonrattling along at a bone-jolting thirty miles an hour in his 1929 Chevy. In the rearview mirror he could see black storm clouds rising over the mountain, and the chance of a cloudburst sending the creeks out of their banks and cutting him off from home would have weighed on his mind. He wasn't a man to take things lightly, and he distrusted the weather more than anything in the world. But he also distrusted cars, and doctors, and the government; so he might have felt he was running a gauntlet of the fates.
The fourteen-mile trip never took less than an hour. The single-lane road wound through muddy hollows and over flint ridges so rough that when he tried to press on more speed the car would shudder and go into convulsions that shook the pipe right out of his mouth. But whatever awful scenes his creative anxiety cooked up that day remained only possibilities, for he was back home with the doctor before the storm broke, and my mother got such help as a doctor could provide under the circumstances. So did I. My certificate of birth shows that in compliance with what must have been a state law, the doctor put a drop of silver nitrate solution in each of my eyesfor which I thanked him politely, no doubt.
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Having done that, the doctor washed his hands of me and went back to town, leaving me out there in the woods at the mercy of the natives. They were total strangers to me, and being unable to speak their language I could only guess at their intentions. Judging by the looks they gave me, I feared they were cannibals. When I was made to understand that they were all relatives of mine and that they had been expecting me, I was much relieved. It was a strange coincidence, to be sure, but a lucky one for me. I have been lucky with people all my life.
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