It was around a sagebrush campfire in eastern Oregon that Kesey first heard the tale from his father - about the legendary "last go round" that took place at the original Pendleton Round Up in 1911.
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- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Tandem Library, Pocket Books, Black Swan
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781416526025
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- Western stories
- Pendleton Round-Up (2d : 1911)
- Fiction
- Rodeos
- Pendleton Round-Up (2nd : 1911)
- Cowboys
- Pendleton Round-Up (1st : 1911)
- Westen (Verenigde Staten)
- New York Times reviewed
- American fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Oregon, fiction
- Pendleton Round-Up (2nd : 1911) (uri) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018175138 (uri) http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC|no2018175138
“t was a picture of you, matter of fact, on the front page of an Oregonian sports section.”
KEN KESEY was born in La Junta, Colorado, but his family later moved to Springfield, Oregon, where he attended public schools, and later the University of Oregon at Eugene. He has received the Woodrow Wilson scholarship to Stanford University and a Saxton Fellowship, and won the Fred Lowe Scholarship awarded to the outstanding wrestler in the Northwest. Mr. Kesey was king of the Merry Pranksters, a group which traveled the West Coast staging happenings; as a leader of this group, Mr. Kesey appeared as subject and star in the bestseller, THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST, by Tom Wolfe. At present he is "scratching his athlete's foot on his farm in Oregon, watching his kids and blueberries grow.
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