Oregon Historical Quarterly articles from June 2004

Oregon Historical Quarterly archives from June 2004

Oregon My Oregon.(exhibit at the Oregon Historical Society Building)
June 22, 2004... The heritage of a culture is the cement that glues a society together. The past can inform the present. Knowing where we have been can help us chart where we want to go. --Oregon My Oregon (2004) OREGON CAME ONTO THE...

Tangled nets: treaty rights and tribal identities at Celilo Falls.
June 22, 2004... ON A HOT JULY DAY IN 1941, Yakama tribal members Henry Charley and Pete Soctillo opened a soda-pop stand on Chief's Island, one of the prime fishing locations at Celilo Falls. No one could fault their business instincts. Fishermen grew thirsty...

Chief Lelooska: the evolution of an artist.(Don Lelooska Smith)
June 22, 2004... CHIEF LELOOSKA. That was how tens of thousands of school-children from Portland and Vancouver knew him. Beginning in the early 1960s, the Lelooska family daytime school programs and evening family shows drew thousands of visitors a year to...

Oregon, the beautiful.(name meanings)
June 22, 2004... GENERATIONS OF SCHOLARS have had to confront two confounding questions in their efforts to resolve the meaning of Oregon, "the most disputed of U.S. names." (1) The general course of the history of the name can be traced with reasonable...

The right side of the 1960s: the origins of the John Birch society in the Pacific Northwest.
June 22, 2004... THE COLD WAR ERA that followed World War II was long and frightening, as the United Nations struggled to survive the burden of displaced populations, disrupted economies, and shattered empires. The United States found itself in a new position...

The Southern Route revisited.(Oregon Voices)(pioneer routes to the Oregon Territory)
June 22, 2004... IN THE MID-1840s, the lure of free land brought thousands of emigrants over the Oregon Trail into the Willamette Valley. To accommodate the influx and encourage settlement in the valley, the settler community sought an overland wagon route that...

Documenting Utopia in Oregon: the challenges of tracking the quest for perfection.(Research Files)
June 22, 2004... THE OF DOCUMENTING UTOPIA in Oregon is in itself a utopian ordeal. Using the dichotomous nature of the word given by Thomas More in Utopia, published in 1516, it is both a "good task place" and a "no place." (1) Documenting Oregon's historic...

Union County, Oregon History Project.(Spotlight on Affiliates)
June 22, 2004... Union County, Oregon History Project P.O. Box 2841 La Grande, Oregon 97850 Phone 541-975-1694 E-mail: unionhistproj@eoni.com Web site: www.ucohp.org OHS Affiliate since 2002 THE NAME OF Union County, which was...

Oregon Historical Society.(officials)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2004... Founded 1873 ROBERT S. GREGG, president C.J. MCLEOD, vice president JOHN H. HERMAN, secretary JAMES H. RUDD, treasurer DR. JOHN C. PIERCE, assistant secretary / executive director DIRECTORS EX-OFFICIO HON. TED KULONGOSKI, governor...

Visible Bones: Journeys across Time in the Columbia River Country.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Visible Bones: Journeys across Time in the Columbia River Country By Jack Nisbet Sasquatch Books, Seattle, Washington, 2003. 256 pages. $23.95 paper. THE NATURAL WONDERS and rich history of the Pacific Northwest offer an endless array...

Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest By Peter Boag University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 335 pages. $24.95 paper. THERE WAS A TIME...

Fort Limhi: the Mormon Adventure in Oregon Territory, 1855-1858.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Fort Limhi: the Mormon Adventure in Oregon Territory, 1855-1858 By David L. Bigler Arthur H. Clark, Spokane, Wash., 2003. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 376 pages. $39.50 cloth. IN 1855, as part of Brigham Young's...

Plateau Indians and the Quest for Spiritual Power, 1700-1850.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Plateau Indians and the Quest for Spiritual Power, 1700-1850 By Larry Cebula University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2003. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 203 pages. $49.95 cloth. IN 1985, historian Christopher...

Asa Shinn Mercer: Western Promoter and Newspaperman, 1839-1917.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Asa Shinn Mercer: Western Promoter and Newspaperman, 1839-1917 By Lawrence M. Woods Arthur H. Clark, Spokane, Wash., 2003. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. 238 pages, $32.50 cloth. MERCER IS A FAMILIAR NAME in the Puget Sound...

The Nez Perce Nation Divided: Firsthand Accounts of Events Leading to the 1863 Treaty.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Nez Perce Nation Divided: Firsthand Accounts of Events Leading to the 1863 Treaty Edited by Dennis Baird, Diane Mallickan, and W.R. Swagerty University of Idaho Press, Moscow, 2003. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. 406 pages....

The American West in 2000: Essays in Honor of Gerald D. Nash.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The American West in 2000: Essays in Honor of Gerald D. Nash Edited by Richard W. Etulain and Ferenc M. Szasz University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2003. Tables, notes, index. 216 pages. $29.95 cloth. THIS IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION...

Voices of the Buffalo Soldier.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Voices of the Buffalo Soldier By Frank N. Schubert University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2003. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. 291 pages. $24.95. cloth. REPRINTING ITEMS both long and short from a wide range of sources,...

Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian Project in the Field.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian Project in the Field Edited by Mick Gidley University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2003. Photographs, index. 200 pages. $49.95. cloth. IN THE MID-1890s, Edward Sheriff Curtis began a...

Women's Oral History: the Frontiers Reader.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Women's Oral History: The Frontiers Reader Edited by Susan H. Armitage, with Patricia Hart and Karen Weathermon University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2002. Photographs, notes, index. 408 pages. $29.95 paper. SOME PRACTITIONERS OF oral...

Hope and Dread in Montana Literature.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Hope and Dread in Montana Literature By Ken Egan, Jr. University of Nevada Press, Reno, 2003. Notes, bibliography, index. 231 pages. $34.95 cloth. THIS IMPORTANT STUDY participates in the rethinking, even revisioning, of western culture...

The Nature of Gold: an Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush By Kathryn Morse University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2003. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 304 pages. $29.95 cloth. THE NATURE OF GOLD will...

Myth and History in the Creation of Yellowstone National Park.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Myth and History in the Creation of Yellowstone National Park By Paul Schullery and Lee Whittlesey University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2003. Photographs, notes, index. 125 pages. $22.00 cloth. FOR READERS WHO MIGHT be unaware of the...

Vashon Island Archaeology: a View from Burton Acres Shell Midden.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Vashon Island Archaeology: a View from Burton Acres Shell Midden, edited by Julie K.Stein and Laura S. Phillips (University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2003. Illustrations, maps, tables. 151 pages. $30.00 paper.) The Burton Acres Shell...

Bodie's Gold: Tall Tales and True History from a California Mining Town.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Bodie's Gold: Tall Tales and True History from a California Mining Town, by Marguerite Sprague (University of Nevada Press, Reno and Las Vegas, 2003. Photographs, map, notes, references, index. 248 pages. $34.95 cloth.) Bodie, California,...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
June 22, 2004... To the Editor: Recently a neighbor gave me a copy of the Summer 2003 Oregon Historical Quarterly (OHQ 104:2). I was stunned to see the picture of the Trask River on page 188 with the caption which includes "...with the surrounding...

Jasper G. and Minnie Stevens literary prize.(Notices)
June 22, 2004... The Oregon Historical Society announces the second Stevens Prize competition. The prize, designed to recognize the best original fiction or nonfiction literary treatment of Oregon history, consists of a cash award of $3,000 and publication of...

Local history series call for manuscripts.(Notices)
June 22, 2004... The Oregon Historical Society Press seeks to acquire manuscripts for a new series on Oregon local history that will provide new insights and fresh perspectives on life, labor, and culture in Oregon's towns and rural communities. Manuscripts...

2005 Sterling Fellowships in Pacific Northwest History.(Notices)
June 22, 2004... The Oregon Historical Society announces the fourth year of the Donald J. Sterling, Jr., Research Fellowships to encourage original, scholarly, interpretive research in Pacific Northwest history. Fellows will be in residence in the Oregon...

Pacific Northwest Historians guild call for presentations.(Notices)
June 22, 2004... The Pacific Northwest Historians Guild is accepting proposals for panels and papers for its 20th annual conference, to be held in Seattle on March 5, 2005, with a theme of "Trails, Treaties, and Transitions in the Pacific Northwest." Topics can...

OHS research library newly processed collections.(Notices)(Oregon Historical Society)
June 22, 2004... George I. Hazeltine and Martin M. Hazeltine Photographs, 1866-ca. 1920; bulk 1866-1900 (Org. Lot 467) Brothers Martin Mason Hazeltine (1827-1903) and George Irving Hazeltine (1836-1918) trained in photography at New York City in 1852. In...