Oregon Historical Quarterly articles from June 2007

Oregon Historical Quarterly archives from June 2007

Tectonic history and cultural memory: catastrophe and restoration on the Oregon Coast.(GREAT CASCADIA EARTHQUAKES AND TSUNAMIS ALONG THE OREGON COAST)
June 22, 2007... ON A WINTER EVENING IN 1700, the village at the Nilestun shoreline on the Oregon Coast was wrenched in a massive earthquake. Deep cracks formed as the sand below liquefied with the earth movement and oozed to the surface. The land began to sink...

Tsunamis and floods in Coos Bay mythology.(GREAT CASCADIA EARTHQUAKES AND TSUNAMIS ALONG THE OREGON COAST)
June 22, 2007... The principal evidence for major prehistoric earthquakes associated with subduction comes from investigations of estuarine marsh sediments buried by sand layers. These deposits suggest that portions of the coast subsided abruptly--and were then...

Weaving long ropes: oral tradition and understanding the great tide.(GREAT CASCADIA EARTHQUAKES AND TSUNAMIS ALONG THE OREGON COAST)
June 22, 2007... FIRST A STORY. Not so many years ago, my uncle took me high up on Sundown Mountain, just north of Brookings on the southern Oregon coast. I had just started my first quarter in graduate school at the University of Oregon with no clear career...

Native American vulnerability and resiliency to Great Cascadia earthquakes.(GREAT CASCADIA EARTHQUAKES AND TSUNAMIS ALONG THE OREGON COAST)
June 22, 2007... IN JANUARY 1700, Native peoples of the Oregon coast faced two extremely dangerous and abrupt threats, a massive earthquake that caused several minutes of intense ground shaking and, a few minutes later, a tsunami that rapidly flooded low-lying...

"We have allmost every religion but our own": French-Indian community initiatives and social relations in French Prairie, Oregon, 1834-1837.
June 22, 2007... DURING THE EARLY SUMMER MONTHS of 1834, the French Canadian men who had settled in the area of the Willamette Valley now known as French Prairie, likely in consultation with their Indian wives, discussed the need for religious and educational...

Music on the cusp: from folk to acid rock in Portland Coffeehouses, 1967-1970.
June 22, 2007... The people with whom you share the suffering of sudden growth are linked in magical ways, and these can be the people who really know you best. --Jon Adams FROM THE SIDEWALK, IT LOOKS like nothing--just a door with a little sign above...

John Charles Olmsted and campus design in Oregon.(OREGON PLACES)
June 22, 2007... WITH HIS 1903 PORTLAND PARKS report finally published and his design for Portland's Lewis & Clark Exposition complete, visiting landscape architect John Charles Olmsted turned to waiting clients for more lasting Oregon work. Unlike the...

They also served: a soldier's Pacific Theater album, World War II.(OREGON VOICES)(Fred Hill)
June 22, 2007... BORN IN 1920 IN ELGIN, Oregon, photographer Fred Hill grew up in a family that loved cameras, darkrooms, and black-and-white prints. His grandfather had worked with glass-plate negatives, and he had taught Fred's mother how to develop and print...

Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... BEYOND THE MISSOURI: THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN WEST by Richard W. Etulain University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2006. Illustrations, photographs, maps, bibliography, index. 479 Pages. $39.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Congratulations to...

Coming to Stay: A Columbia River Journey.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... COMING TO STAY: A COLUMBIA RIVER JOURNEY by Mary Dodds Schlick Oregon Historical Society Press, Portland, in association with the University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2006. Photographs, notes, index. 191 pages. $22.50 paper. ...

Oregon Politics and Government: Progressives Versus Conservative Populists.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... OREGON POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT: PROGRESSIVES VERSUS CONSERVATIVE POPULISTS edited by Richard A. Clucas, Mark Henkels, and Brent S. Steel University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2005. Tables, notes, index. 355 Pages. $55.00 cloth, $29.95...

Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin: A Cartographic History.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... MAPPING AND IMAGINATION IN THE GREAT BASIN: A CARTOGRAPHIC HISTORY by Richard Francaviglia University of Nevada, Reno, 2005, Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, Index. 249 pages. $24.95 paper. Richard Francaviglia...

River of Renewal: Myth and History in the Klamath Basin.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... RIVER OF RENEWAL: MYTH & HISTORY IN THE KLAMATH BASIN by Stephen Most Oregon History Society Press, Portland, in association with University of Washington Prose, Seattle, 2006 Photographs, maps, notes, index. 292 pages. $22.50 paper. ...

Riding Pretty: Rodeo Royalty in the American West.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... RIDING PRETTY: RODEO ROYALTY IN THE AMERICAN WEST by Renee M. Laegreid University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2006. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 283 pages. $29.95 cloth. Although only a few women, mainly but...

The Seattle Bungalow: People and Houses, 1900-1940.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... THE SEATTLE BUNGALOW: PEOPLE & HOUSES, 1900-1940 by Janet Ore University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2007. Illustrations, notes, appendices, index. 211 pages. $27.95 paper. Janet Ore set herself a rather daunting task Noting that the...

Big Dams of the New Deal Era: A Confluence of Engineering and Politics.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... BIG DAMS OF THE NEW DEAL ERA: A CONFLUENCE OF ENGINEERING AND POLITICS by David P. Billington and Donald C. Jackson University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2006. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 416 pages. $36.95 cloth....

The Orphan Tsunami of 1700: Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... THE ORPHAN TSUNAMI OF 1700: JAPANESE CLUES TO A PARENT EARTHQUAKE IN NORTH AMERICA by Brian Atwater, Musumi-Rokkaku Satoko, Satake Kenp, Tenn Yoshinobu, Ueda Farce, and David K. Yamaguchi University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2005....

Smoke Jumping on the Western Fire Line: Conscientious Objectors During World War II.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... SMOKE JUMPING ON THE WESTERN FIRE LINE: CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS DURING WORLD WAR II by Mark Matthews foreword by Senator George McGovern University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2006. 316 Pages. $29.95 cloth. During World War II, over...

The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty-Ninth Parallel.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... THE BORDERLANDS OF THE AMERICAN AND CANADIAN WESTS: ESSAYS ON REGIONAL HISTORY OF THE FORTY-NINTH PARALLEL edited by Sterling Evans University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2006. Photographs, maps, notes, index. 421 pages. $49.95 cloth. ...

The Journal of the Shaw Historical Library.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... THE JOURNAL OF THE SHAW HISTORICAL LIBRARY A Publication of the Shaw Historical Library, Oregon Institute of Technology, Klamath Falls, Oregon. Generally, one reviews a work that has recently been published or that has a particular...

Letters.(Letter to the editor)
June 22, 2007... To the Editor: In my "Talegate" memoir (OHQ 108:1, Spring 2007),which noted my jazz career from high school to the present time, I mentioned my involvementin the 1965-1966 Portland State College Jazz Festival. However, I neglected to...

OHS Research Library.(NOTICES)
June 22, 2007... Winch family papers, circa 1840-200 (inclusive), Coll 42 Quantity: 8 cubic feet (13 document cases, 4 flat boxes, 2 card file boxes, 1 custom box, 1 oversize folder) The collection includes photographs and papers of the Winch family of...

Oregonscape.(Brief article)
June 22, 2007... In 1926, developers first began talking about increasing tourism on Mount Hood by building a tram that would transport visitors up the northeast side of the mountain, from Cloud Cap Inn to the summit Around trip would take only about two hours,...