Goff on Goff: Conversations and Lectures - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806128682 ISBN 13: 9780806128689

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996

Synopsis

Girl on a Pony is the gritty, humorous, unflinchingly courageous story of five children growing up on a cattle ranch in the remote Valley of the Dry Cimarron in northeastern New Mexico near the little border town of Kenton, Oklahoma. Narrated years later by the oldest daughter, LaVerne, it is a vivid and authentic portrait of ranching life between the two world wars, from 1925, when the family moved to the Goodson Ranch from a half-dugout claim shack in Colorado, to 1936, when they began to disperse.During those years, people in the region endured blizzards, sick and maddened animals, drought, the Dust Bowl, and the Great Depression-with stoic good humor. In Girl on a Pony, cowboys go about their daily tasks, teaching the children all they know. Women endure the hardships of life in an isolated area, coping with the brutal labor ranch life requires of them, and maintaining touches of beauty and civilization where they can-creating lawns from relentlessly rocky soil, holding dances for their children, and painstakingly tatting when all else fails.

About this title

About the Author

Philip B Welch practiced architecture for more than thirty years. He was Chair of the Departments of Art and Architecture and of Creative Arts at the University of Santa Clara and taught at the University of California Polytechnic, the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Illinois, the University of California--Berkeley, and the University of Oklahoma.

Synopsis

Architect Bruce Goff was not afraid to be different. He became head of the University of Oklahoma School of Architecture, recognised as the nation's most daring training ground. This book is compiled from tapes recording some of Goff's lectures and conversations.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806128682
• ISBN 13: 9780806128689
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Welch Philip B.