Pamela Royes. (2016). Temperance Creek: A Memoir. Catapult.

Pamela Royes. 2016. Temperance Creek: A Memoir. Catapult.

Pamela Royes, Temperance Creek: A Memoir. Catapult, 2016.

Pamela Royes. Temperance Creek: A Memoir. Catapult, 2016.

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   • bioText: Pamela Royes and her husband raise cattle and hay. They have two children and three grandchildren. She is currently working on a book of fiction. They live in Joseph, Oregon.
     Teresa Jordan is an artist and author who grew up in a house full of books on an isolated ranch in Wyoming where the love of learning she acquired in the local one–room school carried her to Yale and into a lifetime of inquiry. Her books include the memoir Riding the White Horse Home and two illustrated journals, Field Notes from Yosemite: Apprentice to Place, and Field Notes from the Grand Canyon: Raging River, Quiet Mind. Her first book, Cowgirls: Women of the American West, was one of the earliest books to give voice to contemporary women working on the land. With her husband, Hal Cannon, she created the series "The Open Road" about the outback American West for public radio's "The Savvy Traveler." She now lives in southern Utah near Zion National Park.
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In the early seventies, some of us were shot like stars from our parents' homes. This was an act of nature, bigger than ourselves. In the austere beauty and natural reality of Hell's Canyon of Eastern Oregon, one hundred miles from pavement, Pam, unable to identify with her parent's world and looking for deeper pathways has a chance encounter with returning Vietnam warrior Skip Royes. Skip, looking for a bridge from survival back to connection, introduces Pam to the vanishing culture of the wandering shepherd and together they embark on a four–year sojourn into the wilderness. From the back of a horse, Pam leads her packstring of readers from overlook to water crossing, down trails two thousand years old, and from the vantages she chooses for us, we feel the edges of our own experiences. It is a memoir of falling in love with a place and a man and the price extracted for that love.
Written with deep lyricism, Temperance Creek is a work of haunting beauty, fresh and irreverent and rooted in the grit and pleasure of daily life. This is Pam's story, but the courage and truth in the telling is part of our human experience. Seen through a slower more primary mirror, one not so crowded with objectivity, Pam's memoir, is a kind of home–coming, a family reunion for shooting stars.

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   • source: The Washington Post
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     "Watching Royes find her way, not only in nature but through difficult personal decisions, makes for compelling, enduring reading."

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   • source: Kirkus
   • content: “Heartfelt and brimming with lyrical appreciation for nature and personal freedom, this is not only the account of a woman who followed the stirrings of a restless heart. It is also a kind of elegy to the youthful rebels and dreamers of the late 1960s and early '70s in search of new ways of being and belonging. A modern frontier adventure for nature lovers and armchair travelers alike."
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   • source: Gary Ferguson, author of The Carry Home: Lessons from the American Wilderness
   • content: "Pam Royes has written a grand story, overflowing with hunger and beauty and pluck. Held within her tale is an exquisite gift: the chance to see a woman and a man shaped and sculpted – and in the end, made more gloriously human – by having merged their lives with one of the wildest, most spectacular landscapes on Earth."
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   • source: Kim Stafford, author of 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared
   • content: "What's going to happen to a girl child from a sedate household who names her bicycle Dynamite? By this book's lights, her trajectory veers from home into a feral thirst for a different life made from scratch in the mountains. Temperance Creek takes you back to the land in the company of a sensitive, wise, and zesty woman and her chosen man. She'll guide you into remote corners of Oregon and Idaho to herd sheep, lust for the horizontal vertigo of full gallop, ponder the outback ways of men and women, suffer a lost brother, champion a warrior's search for peace, and roll a smoke on horseback as the storm gathers overhead. By reading, it's not too late to live this life. This is a book you will savor, and give to the lucky among your friends."
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   • source: Rich Wandschneider, Director, Josephy Library of Western History and Culture
   • content: "Temperance Creek is a great adventure in a great place. And maybe most of all a great love story. North Dakota girl with wanderlust meets Oregon vet hiding out in remote Hells Canyon of the Snake River with horses. In a flash, throws in her lot, and the two begin a journey through outrageous terrain and sheep camps, learning to live with and off the land, and with each other. There are plenty of Vietnam vet stories out there, and accounts of midcentury music, drugs, and community. Theirs is a different journey, one a few might have guessed at, but fewer would have dared."
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   • source: Karen Fisher, author of A Sudden Country
   • content: "There's more true magic in this book than many I've read in years. Pam Royes' voice is clear and sinewy, supremely honest, humble, brave, and funny, and her love story, set in the wilderness in a time of profound cultural transition, is incandescently vivid, earthy and real. Temperance Creek is compulsively readable, and refreshing as a plunge in a deep clear swimming hole."
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   • source: Craig Lesley, author of Winterkill and River Song
   • content: "Temperance Creek is a compelling memoir about love, courage, and transformation. Pamela Royes deftly chronicles her journey from a suburban college student to a "wild woman," from hippie to sheepherder to outlaw, Her trail starts at the University of Oregon and finishes in wild and remote Hell's Canyon on the Snake River. Along the way, she bravely confronts rattlesnakes, cougars, bears, and a bullet wound to her thigh, while learning the complex tasks of sheepherding from her partner, the intrepid Skip. On another level, the book honors the legacy of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce people who first occupied the beautiful landscapes the author traverses. This is a wonderful book. Readers will want to put on a pair of comfortable hiking boots and follow the paths the author cherishes."
8. • premium: False
   • source: David Laskin, author of The Children's Blizzard and The Family
   • content: "As a young woman, Pam Royes had the guts and grace to do what the rest of us only dream of: she ditched convention and lit out for the territory--in her case the spectacularly austere territory of Hells Canyon. Riding ever deeper into this radiant outback, Pam fell in love – first with a landscape, then with a man and finally with a way of life that was fast disappearing before their eyes. Pam's memoir of this time and place made me shiver, it made me laugh, it made me wonder--and above all it made me see with new eyes a place I thought I knew. This is a wise woman's coming of...
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     April 15, 2016
     Debut memoir by a woman who turned her back on her "rich and respectable Presbyterian upbringing" to live a simpler life in the Oregon wilderness. North Dakota native Royes always knew she was different from the members of her Midwestern family. When her parents asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up, her response was "a park ranger." Her waywardness manifested first as a constant need for movement; then, at age 17, she ran away, convinced that her future lay "somewhere beyond the last grain silo." After four years of intermittent cross-country rambling, Royes decided to live in an old Oregon schoolhouse her friends were renovating outside of Eugene, where the author had been studying animal science. There, she met a young Vietnam veteran named Skip whose gypsy spirit and authenticity immediately attracted her. Within a week of meeting him, Royes had consented to joining Skip on a trek into the remote but ruggedly beautiful Hells Canyon region of Eastern Oregon. With a small pack train of horses and no set agenda, the pair set off into the wilderness, where they discovered nature and each other with "a sort of childlike delight." Along the way, they took jobs as sheepherders and horse wranglers and faced the dangers and delights of an untamed world. They learned to love each other through hardship and setbacks, including an unplanned pregnancy that, out of understanding for Skip and his lack of readiness for commitment, Royes ended. Heartfelt and brimming with lyrical appreciation for nature and personal freedom, this is not only the account of a woman who followed the stirrings of a restless heart. It is also a kind of elegy to the youthful rebels and dreamers of the late 1960s and early '70s in search of new ways of being and belonging. A modern frontier adventure for nature lovers and armchair travelers alike.

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