{"product_id":"epitaph-for-ophir-a-george-cheek-9781598245257","title":"Epitaph for Ophir - A Novel about an Alaskan Mining Town","description":"Gold drew stampeders to Alaska's Innoko river region in 1906, when the town of Ophir was founded. More than 40 years later, the unchanging, government-mandated price for gold was strangling the town and its mining operations. Two young men, trying to recapture a dying way of life, spend a cold but entertaining winter in a remote cabin with an old timer while, in the town, a boatload of liquor contributes to odd goings-on. A gunfight with no shots fired, a wrestling match where a woman defeats a man and the initiation of a 16-year-old boy into the brotherhood of the north help break the monotony. Community events take place in a roadhouse and two bars, where domestic disputes become public and where, on one night, a woman, squatting over a spittoon to avoid a 60-below outhouse, demanded to know if goggle-eyed spectators never saw a lady pee before? A Christmas party for the town's eight children is disrupted by a bungled knifing and, later, three of the children die in a fire when they are locked in while their parents visit a bar. The story is fiction, but Ophir and its troubles both were real. Ophir is gone, wiped out in a fire, but still appears on most maps. A few mines still operate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George Cheek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1598245252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781598245257\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e E-Booktime, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.83d","brand":"George Cheek","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43938575712511,"sku":"9781598245257","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a95239e6-9cd9-4a3f-b234-b4c2b29a775c.jpg?v=1681436500","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/epitaph-for-ophir-a-george-cheek-9781598245257","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}