Oregon Historical Quarterly articles from December 2003

Oregon Historical Quarterly archives from December 2003

The political legacy of Robert W. Straub.
December 22, 2003... WHEN THE OREGON HIGHWAY Commission approved a new route for Highway 101 over the sand spit at the mouth of the Nestucca River near Pacific City in 1966, the action led to a roar of protests by those who feared the road would destroy the natural...

"The leviathan of the North": American perceptions of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1816-1846.
December 22, 2003... IN THE SUMMER of 1833, while touring the Upper Missouri country as a guest of Pierre Chouteau and the American Fur Company (AFC), the German prince Maximilian witnessed a series of extraordinary events. At Fort McKenzie, in the heart of...

Theodore B. Wilcox: captain of industry and magnate of the China Flour Trade, 1884-1918.
December 22, 2003... The situation now awaits the man. Another Governor C.C. Washburn [who] would lead the American millers to a glorious trade conquest, beside which the achievements of the past would be dwarfed into insignificance. "There is the east; there...

"As truly American as your son": voicing opposition to internment in three West Coast cities.
December 22, 2003... ON FEBRUARY 26, 1942, Azalia Emma Peet of Gresham, Oregon, stood before the House Select Committee Investigating National Defense Migration-better known as the Tolan Committee--which was conducting hearings in Portland on the need for...

The Nestle' condesary in Bandon.(Oregon Places)
December 22, 2003... WHILE IT MAY HAVE BEEN AN EYESORE to most residents of Bandon, Oregon, to me it was a photographic opportunity. It was spring 2001 when I first noticed the weather-beaten building on the Bay of Bandon. On the east end, in large bold red...

Using artifacts to study the past: early evidence for John Day exploration.(Research Files)
December 22, 2003... Dedicated to Keith Clark 'Was there ever an undertaking of more merit, of more hazard and more enterprising, attended with a greater variety of misfortune?" --John Jacob Astor, letter to Ramsey Crooks, reflecting on Astor's expedition to...

The Klamath Knot.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003. Illustrations, maps, bibliography. 173 pages. $16.95 paper. Reviewed by William Kittredge Missoula, Montana IN THE EARLY 1980s, I missed The Klamath Knot. David Rains Wallace was writing...

Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics, and Environment in Alaska.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2002. Culture and Environment in the Pacific West series. Photographs, maps, bibliography, index. 192 pages. $21.95 paper. Reviewed by Hal Rothman University of Nevada. Las Vegas ALASKA HAS...

Range of Glaciers: The Exploration and Survey of the Northern Cascade Range.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Oregon Historical Society Press, Portland, 2003. Photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 568 pages. $40.00 cloth. Reviewed by William B. Beyers and Stephen J. Hyde University of Washington, Seattle TO MOST OUTDOOR ENTHUSIASTS,...

Native River: The Columbia Remembered.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Washington State University Press, Pullman, 2002. Illustrations, photographs, maps, index. 208 pages. $24.95 paper Rewived by Carlos A. Schwantes University of Missouri--St. Lewis THE PRIMARY ACHIEVEMENT of William D. Layman's Native...

Uncertain Encounters: Indians and Whites at Peace and War in Southern Oregon, 1820s--1860s.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2002. Notes, bibliography, index. 256 pages. $22.95 paper. Reviewed by Gregory E. Smoak Colorado State University, Ft. Collins SINCE ITS PUBLICATION in 1991, Richard White's The Middle Ground:...

A Necessary Balance: Gender and Power among Indians of the Columbia Plateau.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2003. Photographs, maps, tables, bibliography, index. 296 pages. $42.95 cloth. Reviewed by Rodney Frey University of Idaho. Moscow LILLIAN ACKERMAN's A Necessary Balance is an amazing and important...

Distant Corner: Seattle Architects and the Legacy of H.H. Richardson.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2003. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. 448 pages. $60.00 cloth. Reviewed by William F Willingham Portland, Oregon IN THIS MASTERFUL STUDY of architectural practice in late...

Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula: Who We Are.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2002. Illustrations, photographs, maps, bibliography, index. 209 pages. $29.95 cloth. Reviewed by Sandy Johnson Osawa Upstream Productions, Seattle, Washington, and Makah Tribe DROP BY your local...

Born in Seattle: The Campaign for Japanese American Redress.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2001. Notes, bibliography, index. 178 pages. $16.95 paper. Reviewed by Robert J. Gould Portland State University, Portland, Oregon WHEN WE FORGIVE and forget, it is properly in the context of a...

Spruce-Root Basketry of the Haida and Tlingit.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Photographs by Ronald H. Reeder, illustrations by Margaret Davidson. University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2003. Illustrations, photographs, maps, bibliography, index. 160 pages. $55.00 cloth. Reviewed by Peter L. Corey Sheldon Jackson...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
December 22, 2003... A caption on page 343 of the Fall 2003 issue of OHQ (104:3) incorrectly identifies the individual pictured as James E. McLaughlin. The correct name is Joseph McLaughlin.

Shirakawa: Stories from a Pacific Northwest Japanese American Community.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... White River Valley Museum, Auburn, Wash., 2002. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. 250 pages. $24.95 paper. Reviewed by June Arima Schumann Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center; Portland SHIRAKAWA, Japanese for White River, was he name...

Western Places, American Myths: How We Think about the West.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... University of Nevada Press, Reno, 2003. Illustrations, photographs, maps. 360 pages. $49.95 cloth. Reviewed by Martha Henderson Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington WINNER OF THE Wilbur S. Shepperson Humanities Book Award for...

Book notes.(Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest)(The Pacific Slope: A History of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest, by Ella E. Clark, illustrations by Robert Bruce Inverarity (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003. Illustrations, glossary, bibliography, source notes. 225 pages. $16.95 paper) Ella Clark...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
December 22, 2003... To the Editor: In my article on Edward Bellamy's influence in Oregon (OHQ 104:1, Spring 2003), I mentioned ads for the Nehalem Valley Cooperative Colony that appeared in the Weekly Nationalist of Los Angeles in 1890 (p. 84). I suggested...

Notices.
December 22, 2003... Pacific Northwest History conference The 57th annual Pacific Northwest History conference will be held in conjunction with the conferences of the Northwest Archivists, Inc., and the Northwest Oral History Association May 68,2004, at the Red...