Oregon Historical Quarterly articles from June 2002

Oregon Historical Quarterly archives from June 2002

Robert Bruce Horsfall (1868-1948) came to Oregon in 1914 at the request of William Finley.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Robert Bruce Horsfall (1868-1948) came to Oregon in 1914 at the request of William Finley, a founder of the Oregon Audubon Society and a proponent of protecting wildlife habitat in the Klamath Basin. Horsfall, best known for his paintings of...

Reviews.
June 22, 2002... Carl Abbott, Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest, reviewed by Carol A. O'Connor John Fahey, Saving the Reservation: Joe Garry and the Battle to Be Indian, reviewed by Clifford E. Trafzer William R. Long,...

Refuges and Reclamation : Conflicts in the Klamath Basin, 1904-1964.
June 22, 2002... The Klamath Basin, which rests in the rain shadow cast by the Cascade Mountains, once held a sprawling mosaic of shallow, tule-choked lakes and vast swamplands fed by runoff water from surrounding mountains and uplands. The basin has an arid...

"The Greatest Curse of the Race" : Eugenic Sterilization in Oregon, 1909-1983.
June 22, 2002... Taking a tip from Nazi Germany, Oregon today considered embarking on a far-reaching program of sterilization of its unfit citizens. --Oregon Journal, August 9, 1935 On August 9, 1935, readers of the Oregon Journal learned that state...

"This Is Just the First Round" : Designating Wilderness in the Central Oregon Cascades, 1950-1964.
June 22, 2002... National forest logging roads snake their way up the west side of Horse Creek in the Central Cascade Mountains of western Oregon, where clear-cut logging units break up the dense forest canopy of evergreen trees. The roads leave State Highway...

The Brooklyn Roundhouse.
June 22, 2002... The Brooklyn Roundhouse is momentarily visible as you cross the Holgate Boulevard viaduct, which passes over the Union Pacific Railroad yard in Portland's Brooklyn neighborhood. Outside the roundhouse are several vintage railroad passenger cars...

Voices of Oregon : Twenty-Five Years of Professional Oral History at the Oregon Historical Society.
June 22, 2002... They set to work, at first with pencil and pad, later with wire recorders, later still with early tape-recording machines. They found that the task needed a great deal of money, and money was hard to get. It needed system, planning,...

Des Chutes Historical Center Deschutes County Historical Society.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... The Oregon Historical Society currently counts 146 local historical organizations as its affiliates, allies in collecting, preserving, promoting, and interpreting the history of the state. Affiliates run a surprising gamut of interests, from...

Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest.
June 22, 2002... Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest By Carl Abbott University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2001. Photographs, maps, tables, notes, index. 254 pages. $34.95 cloth. $19.95 paper. Why is the...

Saving the Reservation: Joe Garry and the Battle to Be Indian.
June 22, 2002... Saving the Reservation: Joe Garry and the Battle to Be Indian By John Fahey University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2001. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 232 pages. $26.95 cloth. On the Columbia Plateau of Oregon,...

A Tortured History: The Story of Capital Punishment in Oregon.
June 22, 2002... A Tortured History: The Story of Capital Punishment in Oregon By William R. Long Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Eugene, 2001. Photographs, tables, notes, appendix. 256 pages. $19.95 paper. This history of Oregon's...

Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1929.
June 22, 2002... Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1929 By David Igler University of California Press, Berkeley, 2001. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 281 pages. $37.50 cloth....

Patterns of Vengeance: Crosscultural Homicide in the North American Fur Trade.
June 22, 2002... Patterns of Vengeance: Crosscultural Homicide in the North American Fur Trade By John Phillip Reid Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society, Pasadena, Calif., 1999. Bibliography, index. 248 pages. $40.00 cloth. Acommon assertion...

Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861.
June 22, 2002... Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861 By Durwood Ball University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2001. Illustrations, photographs, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. 318 pages. $34.95 cloth. This history carefully...

Esther Ross, Stillaguamish Champion.
June 22, 2002... Esther Ross, Stillaguamish Champion By Robert Ruby and John A. Brown foreword by LaDonna Harris, introduction by Alan Stay and Jay Miller University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2001. Photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 336...

The Transforming Image: Painted Arts of the Northwest Coast First Nations.
June 22, 2002... The Transforming Image: Painted Arts of the Northwest Coast First Nations By Bill McLennan and Karen Duffeck UBC Press, Vancouver, B.C.; University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2000. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes,...

A Century of Teaching, Faith, and Service: The University of Portland, 1901-2001.
June 22, 2002... A Century of Teaching, Faith, and Service: The University of Portland, 1901-2001 By James T. Connelly University of Portland Press, Portland, Ore., 2001. Photographs, notes. 160 pages. $49.95 cloth. This attractive, large-format...

Exploring the Olympic Mountains: Accounts of the Earliest Expeditions, 1878-1890.
June 22, 2002... Exploring the Olympic Mountains: Accounts of the Earliest Expeditions, 1878-1890 Compiled by Carsten Lien Mountaineers Books, Seattle, 2001. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 484 pages. $35.00 paper. ...

Standing Up to the Rock.
June 22, 2002... Standing Up to the Rock By T. Louise Freeman-Toole University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2001. Photographs. 223 pages. $26.00 cloth. Many of the Euro-American immigrants who peopled the Inland Northwest in the nineteenth century...

Hobnobbing with a Countess and Other Okanagan Adventures: The Diaries of Alice Barrett Parke, 1891-1900.
June 22, 2002... Hobnobbing with a Countess and Other Okanagan Adventures: The Diaries of Alice Barrett Parke, 1891-1900 Edited by Jo Fraser Jones University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 2001. Photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 383...

Book Notes.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Trusteeship in Change: Toward Tribal Autonomy in Resource Management, edited by Richmond L.Clow and Imre Sutton (University Press of Colorado, Boulder, 2001. Photographs, maps, drawings, glossary, index to cases, index. 488 pages. $59.95 cloth,...

Letters.
June 22, 2002... To the Editor: My great niece Diana (Souders) Smith is a new member of the Historical Society. In her first issue of the Oregon Historical Quarterly [Spring 2001] was the story of the Alaska shipwreck. Thanks to her the story filled in the...