{"product_id":"how-it-looks-going-back-growing-up-in-the-montana-woods-9781606390108","title":"How It Looks Going Back: Growing Up in the Montana Woods","description":"In 1949, taking a break from San Diego's post-World War II bustle, the Knowles family went camping in Canada. Heading home through northwest Montana's Yaak River country, they found a two-bedroom, story-and-half log cabin on a small lake. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere was neither electricity nor plumbing. Access was via dirt road, slow at best and iffy during the long, hard winters. Darwin Knowles saw a peaceful life, and adventurous wife Marilyn agreed. Third-grader daughter, Dee (for Doris), could attend the one-room school, and three-year-old Bob (Barbara) have a safe place to play. Enthusiastic but ignorant of wilderness living, the family moved in that fall--working together to cook and heat with wood, hunt and fish for food, haul water, and wash clothes by hand. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey stayed for six years, during which son Stevie was born. Dee's reminiscence of her childhood in \"the Yaak\" presents quirky neighbors, growing girls' adventures, wildlife huge and tiny, and especially one loving family. As she writes, \"It was a cozy, scary, painful, hilarious, dangerous, interesting, and grand time, and the most fun I ever had.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Riverbend\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781606390108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.90d","brand":"Doris Knowles Pulis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52259572449461,"sku":"9781606390108","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_acfba9c1-8c6c-40ec-a1cd-d44a09429538.jpg?v=1771342262","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/how-it-looks-going-back-growing-up-in-the-montana-woods-9781606390108","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}