{"product_id":"oh-how-can-i-keep-on-singing-voices-of-pioneer-women-9781504018876","title":"Oh How Can I Keep on Singing?: Voices of Pioneer Women","description":"When Washington Territory was created, the narrow, isolated Okanogan River Valley was considered a wasteland and an Indian reservation, the Chief Joseph Reserve, was established there. But when silver was discovered near what became Ruby City, the land was re-appropriated, and the Native Americans were moved to a more confined area. The Okanogan was then opened up to white homesteaders, with the hope of making the area more attractive to miners. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The interconnected dramatic monologues in \u003ci\u003eOh How Can I Keep On Singing? \u003c\/i\u003eare the stories of the forgotten women who settled the Okanogan in the late nineteenth century, arriving by horse-drawn cart to a place that purported to have such fine weather that a barn was unnecessary for raising livestock. Not all of the newcomers survived the cattle-killing winter of 1893. Of those who did, some would not have survived if the indigenous people had not helped them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJana Harris teaches creative writing at the University of Washington and at the Writer's Workshop in Seattle. She is an editor of \u003ci\u003eSwitched-on Gutenberg: A Global Poetry Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and the author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eHorses Never Lie About Love\u003c\/i\u003e and the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eYou Haven't Asked About My Wedding or What I Wore: Poems of Courtship on the American Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Integrated Media LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50339520643346,"sku":"9781504018876","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_40c9900c-2fd5-4d18-ac1b-f7e435797cf4.jpg?v=1728006559","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/oh-how-can-i-keep-on-singing-voices-of-pioneer-women-9781504018876","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}