{"product_id":"9781606390108","title":"How It Looks Going Back: Growing Up in the Montana Woods","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, taking a break from San Diegos 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. There was naither electricity not plumbing. Access was via dirt road, slow at best and iffy during the long, hard winters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDarwin Knowles saw a peaceful life, and adventurous wife Marilyn agreed. Third grd grader daughter, Dee (for Doris), could wattend the one-room school, and three-year-old Bob (Barabara) have a safe place to play.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnthusiastic but igniorant of wildrness 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. They stayed for six years, during which son stevie was born.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDee'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, intersting, and grand time, and the most fun I ever had.\"  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Riverbend Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047279444208,"sku":"9781606390108","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781606390108_p0.jpg?v=1769902490","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781606390108","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}