From critically acclaimed author Frank Bergon comes a new personal narrative about the San Joaquin Valley in California. This intimate companion to Two-Buck Chuck & The Marlboro Man brings us back to an Old West at odds with New West realities where rapid change is a common trait and memories are of rural beauty.

"In a companion book to Two-Buck Chuck & The Marlboro Man, Frank Bergon presents a vivid personal history of the place where he grew up and the people of immigrant and migrant heritage he knew in the overlooked and most productive agricultural region the United States-California's San Joaquin Valley-the New West of the twentieth century. If you want to understand how those from rural America think and feel today, you have to read this book"--