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DECEMBER 2229, 2021
FROM THE SHELF
CHECKING OUT THE
WORLD OF BOOKS
Book series relates 31 years of
ranch life in Wallowa County
Janie Tippett’s series ‘Janie’s Journal’
is available from local bookstores
By Trish Yerges
Go! Magazine
S
he’s as country as they
come. Wallowa rancher’s
wife and writer, Janie Tippett, 88,
has never lived in a town or city.
The western lifestyle is all that
she’s ever known and everything
she’s ever wanted.
Now her popular memoirs,
“Janie’s Journal,” have just been
released in a six-volume series
published by Lucky Marmot
Press. Each book averages 500
pages with her own photos and
an index. The six volumes are
available at the Book Loft in
Enterprise or can be ordered
through any local book store and
online.
For 31 years, Tippett shared
her memoirs in a column she
wrote for Agri-Times Northwest,
published in Pendleton and
now in Walla Walla. It was called
“Janie’s Journal...life on a ranch.”
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It reached reading audiences
throughout the Pacifi c North-
west and internationally where
the romantic tales and images of
the “Old West” are very popular.
Her columns were derived
from a lifetime of journaling on
the ranch.
“In my columns,” she said, “I
chronicled the lives of ranch-
ers and farmers in rural North-
eastern Oregon, as well as the
cultural changes, weather, local
events, and the changing face of
our part of rural Oregon.”
What seemed to her then as
a recent recollection of experi-
ences and thoughts has now
aged into documents of historic
value.
“Now it is history,” she said,
“and I did this book series as
a memoir of Oregon history
for libraries, and of course, it is
archived for future research. It is
also in our local museum for ref-
erence, as I am also a historian
for Wallowa County.”
Tippett’s book series will
fi nd its way into libraries in this
region of the state, a job best
suited for her publisher, Lucky
Marmot Press, she said. Speak-
ing with the heart of a historian,
she added that she wants this
collection of history to be made
available to students and future
researchers.
Her readers showed their ap-
preciation for her columns.
“I received lots of fan mail
over the years,” Tippett said.
There’s every reason to be-
lieve she will lasso a great deal
more fan letters from this book
series too.
Tippett is one of the 1988
founders of Fishtrap Gathering
writing group, and has been a
prolifi c writer and photojournal-
ist with many literary credits to
her name. She currently heads
up several writing groups in Wal-
lowa County.
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