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Walking Tractor—A Review by Katy TahjaWalking Tractor author Bruce “Pat” Pattersonadmits to being a lot of things in his life besides awriter. A Vietnam vet who worked in logging, he'schopped timber, set chokers, worked with heavy equipmentcatskinning and hook tending, and driven truck.As a ranch hand and farm laborer he's stompedfleece, bucked hay, irrigated crops, planted grapes,pruned orchards, builtfence, hauled livestock,driven tractor, andwhacked weeds whilekeeping his eyes andears open to the worldaround him.Patterson combinesa lifetime of hard workand a skill for telling agood story with humor.Reading his stories ofAnderson Valley, youfeel like you're sitting inthe shade on a warmafternoon with an oldfriend who saysPhotograph by Harvey Morrison "...remember that storyabout..."The Old in the book's subtitle, Tales of OldAnderson Valley, refers to the time before the mid-1970's. It was an era of loggers and ranchers and backto-the-landhippies. Patterson suggests this collectionof stories is a love letter to the old-timers of the valley."I loved their home-grown, hard-assed humor andways, their code of honor, and their capacity for work,orneriness, stubbornness and storytelling," Pattersonsays.Some writers see stories embedded in everythingaround them. Take the story Walking Tractor. The titlerefers to the seasonal job of moving a tractor from oneranch to another miles apart. Plodding down Highway128 at 15 m.p.h., you notice a lot more of the worldaround you, both natural and manmade, than youwould zipping by at 65m.p.h. He shares hisobservations with a lot oflaughter in his writing.Stories of hard workalternate with tales aboutthe animal-world inhabitants.Ravens, turkey, deer, sheep, jackrabbits, crowsand horses appear in his stories. And the stories are notall sweetness and light. If a horse decides to stand onyour foot you darned well better know how to get thecritter to move.Patterson's short stories on his varied careersreflect his ingrained work ethic of doing a job, doing itwell and having pride in your work. Putting previouslyheld jobs aside and concentrating on writing is a newexperience. "Self publishing has its problems. It's beenone of the most frustrating experiences of my life,"Patterson says. Writing text is not the problem. Gettingeverything put together is the challenge.After putting off the beginning of this serious newcareer (though he's been writing for the AndersonValley Advertiser newspaper for 20 years) the authorjokes, "I was waiting for the kids to grow up and thedog to die." He's now at work on a second book.While only seven of the 24 stories in WalkingTractor are about logging, Patterson included aLumberjack Lingo glossary in the back of the book.Readers can refer to it when they want to know what acatskinner does (and it has nothing to do with pets) orwhat caddywhompered means.The author’s email address is contact@4mules.com orwrite to 4Mules Productions, P.O. Box 628, Boonville, CA95415. For projects underway visit his website atwww.4mules.com.Katy Tahja is the Mendocino Middle School librarian, anhistorian and writer, and also works at Gallery Bookshop.49
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