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Ed McLauren has fought his whole life: to build the Lazy Ear ranch, to pass responsible range management legislation, and to expose the unscrupulous and greedy developers who seek to rob the N'Chi-lix-czin of their birthright. This time, Ed perseveres to speaks out in favor of controlled brush-burning to unwilling ears, while discomfited by the appearance of Delbert Gaston, a candidate for Congress, who opens up wounds he has avoided for thirty-five years. Advised by his doctor to write a will and organize his estate, Ed finds himself travelling homeward for the first time since coming to the west in 1857 as a rebellious teenager drawn by the lure of the gold fields. In an Almerican saga, spanning a generation, embroiled over settlement and control of public land between white and native men and the government, Ed reminisces to his youth and the people who shaped his life as a rancher in the Okanogan Valley of north central Washington, interweaved with the contemporary frustrations of the second generation ranchers. Like the brilliant spires of fireweed that spring up to cover burned-over slopes, nature's cycle of renewal governs Ed's life.

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Nellie, besides being an author, librarian, and newspaper reporter, also lived fully in many other dimensions. She was a wife to Dr. Robert L. Picken, loving mother of Kathy, Jim and Bruce, and grandmother to ten. She was a strong swimmer and first mate sailor with her family on sailboat excursions on lakes Okanogan, Priest, Coeur d'Alene, Lake Chelan and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Nellie spoke several languages and was a world traveler, touring Europe with her daughter, Kathy, and China with one of her best friends, Janet. She cultivated gardens and canned fruits and vegetables for winter. For many years she was main cook for cherry picking crews at a family owned cherry orchard on the shores of Lake Chelan, picking and savoring many a ripe cherry while perched on the rungs of a ladder. She was secretary/bookkeeper for her son Bruce's gun-smith business. Nellie had physical, intellectual, and creative energy, a quick wit, and good sense of humor, which carried her through 91 years. She had many told and untold stories.

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