Dave visits with two very special people. Kendra Atleework is the author of Miracle Country: a Memoir of a Family and a Landscape and her father, Robert Atlee (find out why their names are just a little different by listening!), the publisher of Sierra Maps.
Kendra tells the joyous and sometimes sad story of her family growing up in and near Bishop, California in the Owens Valley. It's a dramatic landscape that you have very likely seen even if you've never been there. A multitude of movies and commercials have been shot in the region that lies between two towering mountain ranges, the Sierra and White Mountains.
The story of the Owens Valley, which is called Payahǖǖnadǖ, meaning "place of flowing water" by the indigenous Piute people who have lived there for millennia, is a tortured one from the near extermination of the Native Americans to the stealing of its water by the city of Los Angeles as made famous in the film Chinatown and chronicled in Marc Reisner's seminal book Cadillac Desert.
Atleework's book adds a new and remarkable take on the story of this amazing place as told through the lens of her family and growing up at the foot of iconic 13,658 ft. Mt. Tom.
