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    Peter Left Because . . .': A Comparative Study of Family Oral Histories

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    comparative study; Oest; oral history
    Author
    Thym, Nancy
    Journal Title
    Scas: Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences
    Volume
    77
    Issue
    scas/vol77/iss3; 3
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    https://scholar.oxy.edu/handle/20.500.12711/10093
    Abstract
    In 1854, Peter Oest left the small, northern German town of Otterndorf for America. He left behind a productive farm and high social position for the life of an unlucky gold miner in the California foothills. In Otterndorf the descendants of Peter's brother give one reason for Peter's seemingly irrational behavior, while Peter's descendants in California give quite another reason: the former, that he left for marital reasons, the latter, that he left for military reasons. The truth in these disparate accounts is no longer possible to determine and is perhaps not as important as the exploration of the motivations behind each family's account and the insights the accounts give us into the way in which narratives are generated.
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