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Oral History Review Advance Access originally published online on August 14, 2009
Oral History Review 2009 36(2):277-279; doi:10.1093/ohr/ohp065
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Oral History Association. All rights reserved. For permissions, Please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Muskrat Stew and Other Tales of A Penobscot Life: The Life Story of Fred Ranco

Peggy M. Dillon

Salem State College

MUSKRAT STEW AND OTHER TALES OF A PENOBSCOT LIFE: THE LIFE STORY OF FRED RANCO. By Fred Ranco, as told to Tara Marvel. Occasional Publications of the Maine Folklife Center, No. 2. Orono: University of Maine, 2007. 100 pp. Softbound, $9.95. Copies can be ordered from Pauleena M. MacDougall, Publications Editor, 5773 South Stevens Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5773.

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Muskrat Stew and Other Tales of a Penobscot Life: The Life Story of Fred Ranco vividly recounts the life of Fred Ranco, a full-blooded Penobscot Indian born in 1932 and raised on a Maine reservation. Though just a hundred pages, this slim volume nicely illuminates the trajectory of Ranco’s life, a blend of traditional Penobscot upbringing with modern American life. The memoir consists almost exclusively of Ranco’s oral history recollections, told in extensive first-person passages . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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