Oregon Historical Quarterly articles from December 2001

Oregon Historical Quarterly archives from December 2001

Oregon at War.
December 22, 2001... Editor's note: During trying times, historians can provide perspective. They can help us understand why, in our desire for sure answers, we often simplify complex conditions. The events of September 11, 2001, challenge us in new ways, but our...

"Shameful Mismanagement, Wasteful Extravagance, and the Most Unfortunate Dissention" : George Simpson's Misconceptions of the North West Company.
December 22, 2001... ABOVE THE NORTH BANK AND SOME ninety miles east of the mouth of the Columbia River, surrounded by the modern city that has borrowed its name, stands a reconstructed Fort Vancouver. For nearly a quarter of a century, from 1824 to 1849, the...

A Missionary Journey to Oregon, 1853-1854.(journal of Bishop Matthew Simpson, Methodist Episcopal Church)
December 22, 2001... Introduction by James E. Kirby At the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1852, Bishop Matthew Simpson was assigned to visit congregations and preside at the California Conference in Sacramento and the Oregon Conference...

THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, 1876 : A COMMEMORATIVE FORUM.
December 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION The Oregon Humanities Center was honored that President Dave Frohnmayer asked us to organize an event on the campus of the University of Oregon on November 2, 2001, as part of the convocation ceremony in celebration of the...

Scraps of History : Researching Scrapbooks at the Oregon Historical Society.
December 22, 2001... In "How To Keep Scraps," David Curtis distinguishes between scrapbooks kept for personal use and those created for profit and public reference. The former, he warns, should not be "out of your own keeping for a single hour, under any...

Sacagawea's Son : New Evidence from Germany.
December 22, 2001... New information about Jean Baptiste Charbonneau and Duke Paul Wilhelm of Wurttemberg came to light just as my recent article on Sacagawea's son was going to press (Oregon Historical Quarterly, Fall 2001). The permission letter for the...

Linus Pauling, Scientist and Peacemaker.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... Linus Pauling, Scientist and Peacemaker, edited by Clifford Mead and Thomas Hager. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2001. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, index. 282 pages. $35.00 cloth. Although Oregon State...

Law in the Western United States.
December 22, 2001... Law in the Western United States, edited by Gordon Morris Bakken. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2000. Notes, index. 576 pages. $49.95 cloth. Gordon Morris Bakken patterned this ambitious work after John W. Johnson's Historic...

The Great Northwest: The Search for Regional Identity.
December 22, 2001... The Great Northwest: The Search for Regional Identity, edited by William G. Robbins. Culture and Environment in the Pacific West series. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2001. Notes, bibliography, index. 200 pages. $21.95 paper....

The Reverend Mark Matthews: An Activist in the Progressive Era.
December 22, 2001... The Reverend Mark Matthews: An Activist in the Progressive Era, by Dale E. Soden. University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2001. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 290 pages. $30.00 cloth. Dale Soden provides us...

Hand Game: The Native North American Game of Power and Chance.
December 22, 2001... Hand Game: The Native North American Game of Power and Chance, produced and directed by Lawrence Johnson. Lawrence Johnson Productions, Inc., Portland, Ore., 2001. VHS. 66 minutes. $29.95. In winter or summer, hand games, also called...

Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance: Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, and Victoria Howard.
December 22, 2001... Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance: Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, and Victoria Howard, by Siobhan Senier. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2001. Photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 272 pages....

This Blessed Wilderness: Archibald McDonald's Letters from the Columbia, 1822-44.
December 22, 2001... This Blessed Wilderness: Archibald McDonald's Letters from the Columbia, 1822-44, edited by Jean Murray Cole UBC Press, Vancouver, B.C., 2001. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 307 pages. $75.00 cloth. ...

Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West.
December 22, 2001... Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West, edited by David M. Wrobel and Patrick T. Long, foreword by Earl Pomeroy. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2001. Published for the Center of the American West, Boulder, Colo....

Recollections from the Colville Indian Agency, 1886-1889.
December 22, 2001... Recollections from the Colville Indian Agency, 1886-1889, by Major Rickard D. Gwydir, edited by Kevin Dye. Arthur H. Clark, Spokane, Wash., 2001. Photographs, notes, index. 134 pages. $28.50 cloth. Major Rickard D. Gwydir, after...

Historical Atlas of the North Pacific Ocean: Maps of Discovery and Scientific Exploration, 1500-2000.
December 22, 2001... Historical Atlas of the North Pacific Ocean: Maps of Discovery and Scientific Exploration, 1500-2000, by Derek Hayes. Sasquatch Books, Seattle, 2001. Illustrations, photographs, maps, bibliography, index. 224 pages. $40.00 cloth. It...

Exploring Oregon's Historic House Museums and The Forgotten Grist and Flour Mills of Wallowa County, Oregon.
December 22, 2001... Exploring Oregon's Historic House Museums, by Kathleen Wiederhold. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2000. Photos, maps, bibliography, index. 301 pages. $19.95 paper. The Forgotten Grist and Flour Mills of Wallowa County, Oregon,...

BOOK NOTES.
December 22, 2001... Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest, by Chris Maser (Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, Ore., 2001. Photographs, glossary, bibliography, index. 304 pages. $19.95 paper.) Maser traces the growth of an ancient...

LETTERS.(Letter to the Editor)
December 22, 2001... To the Editor: We recently received an amazing phone call from a lady who asked if we were related to Edgar Horner, who described the sinking of the Alaska (OHQ, Spring 2001). She said, "I am the little girl who was pulled out of the...