It was standing room only at the "Toma Room" in enterprise last night, where we listened to Molly Gloss, author of four novels...Best know for Jump Off Creek. A novel about a woman homesteader in the Blue Mountains of Oregon...
Molly traced a path of how the dime novels morphed into "W"(for western novels) with the mythical hero, Cowboy, who showed up to save everyone and then rode off into the sunset...When in reality she thinks, it was all about family and community...People helping and taking care of each other...Hollywood of course played a big part in how America and the early west is viewed...Women and people of color were only bit players in movies and books...A very skewed perception of the way it really was...She is quite a dynamic speaker and was well received...Hugs To All...OWAV:)
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