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expressed ‘the sam e ppiniphMLeyferetf
G. Richards w rote of it for the O re
gonian, “At our house th e kids didn’t
get a crack at it u n til P a and Ma w ere
through w ith it.”
Tidew ater Valley is the story of two
o r p h a n ^ te i,. sixteen, and her;youn;g e j
brother, Chris, who in 1889 come fro m
Switzerland to live w ith th eir %aunt
and uncle -on a f a r m g ^ j t 'he--Tr^ g
river. Lisi and .^ h r f s t find th a t the
earlier I A m erican settlers. T o « |m a s -
pendabje tran sp o rtatiffi andla-MgjMj
H i.« ^^^W h a^
d M s R K 'fp r the
dairy farm ers to get b u tter to m arket
before it tu rn s rancid. To solve the la t
ter problem, they tu rn to cheese m ak
ing and the oA )ha^^w atG ^^W ^ ^ ^ in r f
ningl of th at
w as to
make the county w orld famous. And^
m ore about
S e ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ R !|d o ,^ g M fe a rn m any sur-
■pr j j l ag an d valuable facts concerning
th jmn ^ 'S 11 w jjjj- As th eir economic
problems ^ a r e 'j ^ ^yed-r anW ythe Swiss
p lrtfc S a te .more and m ore in com m un
ity life, they and*» llil^A m .e^SB N B un-
derstand and like each other better.
From thee * ^ ^ 5 c please don’t get the
impre ||a ^ n th at T idew ater Valley is all
history and industry, for
gives you rom ance, too, and introduces
you to sev e ra f^ ^ lo rfu w d ^ ^ o y easWsuch
as the Indian, Tom m y-go-Dow n, Mrs.
Craig who is an A m erican, b u t a good
friend to the orphans, her son H arry
who thinks Lisi is p retty nice, and the
Mrs. Lundy, was born dn* Tidambok,
county and now lives in P ortland. Her
have threeTphildren.
If y < > 11 like your history in biographi
cal form, you w ill w an t io re ad Harvey!
E. Tobie’s No M an Like Joe. TWhough
the life of Joseph
m enO L ■ it is also very readable.
The little, No M an Like Joe, |f t ||k d n
from, a? rem ark m ade by Jo e’s widow
shortly‘defore she died. S urely no one;
knew Joe as well as his wife and sure
ly she spoke truly, for he was fu r
trap p e r^ p p d h u nter, Indian fighter,
and sheriff, politician and p atrio t —
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