Child of Steens Mountain

Eileen O'Keeffe McVicker with Barbara J. Scot

Foreward by Richard W. Etulain

2008. 6 x 9 inches. 160 pages. B&W photographs. ISBN 978-0-87071-297-5. Paperback, $16.95

For Eileen O’Keeffe McVicker, born in 1927 to an Irish immigrant sheep rancher and a schoolteacher, growing up on a homestead made for “a hard, happy life with layers of riches.” In her memoir of a childhood spent on the southern slope of Steens Mountain, McVicker offers an appealing, personal account of eastern Oregon history.