Frank Bergon's portrayals of people in California's San Joaquin Valley reveal a country where the culture of a vanishing West lives on in many twenty-first-century Westerners, despite the technological transformations around them. All are immigrants, migrants, their children, or their grandchildren whose lives intertwine with the author's.
A personal portrayal of rural and small-town Westerners adhering to Old West values while resisting or assimilating to New West global realities.
