Oregon Historical Quarterly articles from June 2005

Oregon Historical Quarterly archives from June 2005

The Army Corps of Engineers' short-term response to the eruption of Mount St. Helens.
June 22, 2005... AT 8:32 ON THE MORNING of MAY 18, 1980, an earthquake of magnitude 5 on the Richter scale precipitated a massive landslide on Mount St. Helens's outwardly bulging north flank. The collapse of roughly 12 percent of the mountain, the largest...

On the margins of prosperity: the Mortimore family in Oregon.
June 22, 2005... BEFORE THE 1950s, small farmers and their families in the American West lived on the margins of urban-industrial society. Rural families tended to be large, influential, and wide-ranging, with parents, children, and sometimes grandparents and...

Completing Lewis and Clark's westward march: exhibiting a history of empire at the 1905 Portland world's fair.
June 22, 2005... STATUARY of FEROCIOUS BOBCATS and enormous plaster-of-paris bulls menaced visitors from across manicured lawns. Stone images of dancing American Indians broke through the shrubbery and flowers of the carefully styled gardens. Visitors who en...

The work of a nation: Richard D. Cutts and the Coast Survey map of Fort Clatsop.
June 22, 2005... ON JULY 27, 1805, Meriwether Lewis climbed to the top of a limestone cliff and looked out across the valley of the Missouri River. Within this valley of "extensive and beatifull plains and meadows which appear to be surrounded in every...

Telling the history of a shattered culture: an interview with George W. Aguilar, Sr.(Oregon Voices)
June 22, 2005... BLENDING RESEARCH AND RECOLLECTION, Warm Springs tribal elder George W. Aguilar, Sr., has written a history of his people. For over a decade, Aguilar--a man who has no formal training as a historian or writer--has spent hours researching,...

The P Ranch house fire: an eyewitness account.(Oregon Places)
June 22, 2005... JOHN WILLIAM (PETER) FRENCH was twenty-three years old when he arrived in eastern Oregon in 1872 with six Mexican vaqueros, a Chinese cook, and twelve hundred head of cattle. Dr. Hugh J. Glenn, a California wheat baron, sent French to the...

Grace's visit to the Rogue River Valley.(Oregon Voices; motion picture)
June 22, 2005... THE MOVERS AND SHAKERS of southern Oregon's Jackson County were eager to showcase their region to the world at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE), a world's fair held in San Francisco in 1915 to celebrate the opening of the...

The Museum at Warm Springs.(Spotlight on Affiliates)
June 22, 2005... The Museum at Warm Springs P.O. BOX 753 2189 Highway 26 Warm Springs, OR 97761 Phone: (541) 553-3331 Fax: (541) 553-3338 Web site: www.warmsprings.com/museum OHS Affiliate since 2005 A NEW EXHIBIT AT THE...

Oregon My Oregon wins Silver 2005 MUSE Award.(Spotlight on Affiliates)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2005... OREGON MY OREGON--a permanent exhibit at the Oregon Historical Society--tells the Oregon story from the time when people first came to the place to the present day. The exhibit encourages people to think about history and invites them to come...

Sticking to the Union: an Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Sticking to the Union: An Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila By Sandy Polishuk Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2003. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 292 pages. $75.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. SANDY POLISHUK's...

Lewis and Clark: Across the Divide.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Lewis and Clark: Across the Divide By Carolyn Gilman, introduction by James E Ronda Smithsonian Books, Washington, D.C., and Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, 2003. Photographs, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. 421 pages....

Finding Lewis and Clark: Old Trails, New Directions.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Finding Lewis and Clark: Old Trails, New Directions Edited by James P. Ronda and Nancy Tystad Koupal South Dakota State Historical Society Press, Pierre, 2004. Illustrations, index. 217 pages. $17.95 paper. IN APRIL 2003, the South...

Willamette Landings: Ghost Towns of the River, 3rd edition.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Willamette Landings: Ghost Towns of the River, 3rd edition By Howard McKinley Corning with a new introduction by Robin Cody Oregon Historical Society Press, Portland, 2004. Illustrations, maps, index. 240 pages. $16.00 paper. ...

Wilderness Journey: The Life of William Clark.(William Clark and the Shaping of the West Landon Y Jones)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Wilderness Journey: The Life of William Clark William E. Foley University of Missouri Press, Columbia, 2004. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. 343 pages. $29.95 cloth. William Clark and the Shaping of the West Landon Y Jones...

Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Water and American Government. The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 By Donald J. Pisani University of California Press, Berkeley, 2002. Photographs, notes, index. 408 pages. $4995 cloth. A THOROUGH AND...

African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000 Edited by Quintard Taylor and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2003. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 400 pages. $3495 cloth. ...

Reporting the Pacific Northwest: a Annotated Bibliography of Journalism History in Oregon and Washington.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Reporting the Pacific Northwest. An Annotated Bibliography of Journalism History in Oregon and Washington By Floyd J. McKay Oregon Historical Society Press, Portland, 2004. Illustrations, bibliography. 80 pages. $15.00 paper. AN...

Mapping Identity: The Creation of the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation, 1805-1902.(Landscape Traveled by Coyote and Crane: The World of the Schitsu'umsh )(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Mapping Identity: The Creation of the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation, 1805-1902 By Laura Woodworth-Ney University Press of Colorado, Boulder, 2004. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. 243 pages. $3195 cloth. Landscape Traveled by...

Unsettled Boundaries: Fraser Gold and the British-American Northwest.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Unsettled Boundaries: Fraser Gold and the British-American Northwest By Robert Ficken Washington State University Press, Pullman, 2003. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. 208 pages. $19.95 paper. IN THIS SLIM VOLUME, Robert Ficken...

Parallel Destinies: Canadian-American Relations West of the Rockies.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Parallel Destinies: Canadian-American Relations West of the Rockies Edited by John M. Findlay and Ken S. Coates University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2002. Maps, index. 328 pages. $22.95 paper. JOHN M. FINDLAY AND KEN S. COATES...

Judgment without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment during World War II.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Judgment without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment during World War II By Tetsuden Kashima University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2003. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. 336 pages. $35.00 cloth. CONVENTIONAL WISDOM holds...

Feasting and Fasting with Lewis and Clark: A Food and Social History of the Early 1800s.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Feasting and Fasting with Lewis and Clark: A Food and Social History of the Early 1800s By Leandra Zim Holland Farcountry Press, Helena, Mont., 2003. Illustrations, photographs, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. 287 pages. $24.95...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
June 22, 2005... To the Editor: I much enjoyed Ken Lomax's splendidly crafted and informative piece, "A Chronicle of the Battleship Oregon." The article stirred up the dust in my memory bin when Lomax reminded me that the Oregon had been towed off for...

Jasper G. and Minnie Stevens literary prize.(Notices)
June 22, 2005... The Oregon Historical Society is accepting submissions for the Stevens Prize competition. The prize, with a cash award of $3,000 and publication of the manuscript by the Oregon Historical Society Press, recognizes the best original fiction or...

2006 Sterling Fellowships in Pacific Northwest history.(Notices)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2005... The Oregon Historical Society is accepting applications for Donald J. Sterling, Jr., Research Fellowships to encourage research in Pacific Northwest history. Two fellowships are available--a $2,500 Senior Fellowship and a$2,000 Graduate...

OHS research library recent accessions.(Notices; Oregon Historical Society)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2005... John Donnelly photographs, 1939. 0.02 cu. ft. Includes 2 cirkut prints and snapshots depicting buildings and workers at Camp Keating of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1939. Gregory Friedman moving image collection, ca. 1972-1974. 4 cu....

Oregon's built environment posted to Oregon history project site.(Notices; www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/ narratives/histories.cfm)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2005... The award-winning Oregon History Project announces a new intallment on its Web site, Wooden Beams and Railroad Ties: The History of Oregon's Built Environment, by Richard Engeman (www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/ narratives/histories.cfm)....