Temperance Creek: A Memoir

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. Pam 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 Hells Canyon On Thge Snake River. Along The Way, She Bravely Confronts Rattlesnakes, Cougars, Bears And A Bullet Wound To Her Thign, While Learning The Complex Tasks Of Sheepherding From Her Partner, The Intrepid Skip. Daughter Of The Plains — Mare’s Tails — What We Don’t Say — When I Ran Away — Christmas 1975 — Wallowa Country — Night Creek — Confluence — Junctions — Hittin The Trail — Making Camp — What I Learned About Skip — Rastling — Battle Creek — Falling Into Place — Temperance Creek — Marking Corrals — Minding The Starter — No Country For Fools — Haying And A River Crossing — Idaho — The Horse Ranch — Snowed In — The High Mountains — Travels With John Daniels — The Murmur Of Small Things — Duck Creek — Something To Do With Trust – – Cowboys And Sheepherders — A Visit Home — Counting Sheep — Bum Count — Mixed Blessings — A Letter From Home — Campfire Stories — Christmas On Pony Bar — Winter Camp — Use It Or Lose It — Hand Rolled — Apple Cider Blues — Matters Of Survival — Hitched — Round Two — Good Medicine — Caught Out In The Dark — A Tentative Embrace — Unfamiliar Country — Sodbusters — Bridge Building — Every Other Darn Thing. Pamela Royes. Foreword By Teresa Jordan.