Oregon Historical Quarterly articles from June 2008

Oregon Historical Quarterly archives from June 2008

Fair connections: women's separatism and the Lewis and Clark exposition of 1905.
June 22, 2008... "THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE, MANY of whom stood in the hot sun for hours," gathered at 2:00 p.m. on July 6, 1905, on Lakeview Terrace by the Columbia Court of the Lewis and Clark Centennial and American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair in...

Controlling the Crooked River: changing environments and water uses in irrigated Central Oregon, 1913-1988.
June 22, 2008... LIKE MUCH OF THE AMERICAN WEST, the value of water to people living in Central Oregon's Crooked River Basin cannot be overstated. All of the basin's inhabitants, from the first people who roamed Oregon's high plateau to those who attempted to...

The fruits of her labor: women, children, and progressive era reformers in the Pacific Northwest canning industry.
June 22, 2008... "GIRLS MAKE FOOD FIGHT" WAS the Portland News headline at the outset of a 1913 Oregon Packing Company strike. Women at the plant had had enough of low pay, poor working conditions, and an unsympathetic cannery management. The strikers quickly...

"Frank Burns was a soldier": the World War I Epoch of Frank Cassius Burns.(OREGON VOICES)
June 22, 2008... ON SEPTEMBER 30, 1894, JUST less than twenty-four years before he would leave the bustling frontier town of Condon, Oregon, for the World War I battlefields of France, Frank Cassius Burns, the youngest of eight children, was born in Toledo,...

Oregon State Hospital during the 1960s: a patient's memories and recent interview of her doctor.(OREGON VOICES)(Joseph H. Treleaven)
June 22, 2008... THE THREE-STORIED, SPIRED building stretched for a full block along Center Street in Salem, Oregon, just a few blocks from my childhood home. On weekend walks, my mother would sometimes take us past the seemingly endless structure, and, when I...

The seventy-fifth anniversary of the New Deal: Oregon's legacy.
June 22, 2008... LOGGING, FARMING, AND MINing--industries that formed the backbone of Oregon's economy--began sliding during the 1920s and plummeted when the stock market crashed in October 1929. Ten billion board feet of lumber had been produced in Oregon...

Surviving the Great Depression: the New Deal in Oregon.(Essay)
June 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IT WAS A SPECIAL MOMENT IN time, a gathering place on the arid northern rim of the Columbia Plain where more than twenty thousand people came to hear President Franklin D. Roosevelt speak in August 1934, during the...

The New Deal and people's art: market planners and radical artists.(Essay)
June 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] RESPONDING AFTER THE 1932 election to 25 percent unemployment, falling demand for goods, demoralizing deflation, and massive evaporation of investment, Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal committed the federal...

Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910-30.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... WORKERS AND THE WILD CONSERVATION, CONSUMERISM, AND LABOR IN OREGON, 1910-30 by Lawrence Lipin University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 2007. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 248 pages. $25.00...

Nez Perce Country.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... NEZ PERCE COUNTRY by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. introduction by Jeremy FiveCrows University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 2007. Illustrations, photographs, maps, index. 191 pages. $14.95 paper. Alvin Josephy, Jr....

Emerald City: an environmental History of Seattle.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... EMERALD CITY: AN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF SEATTLE by Matthew Klingle Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, index. 368 pages. $30.00 cloth. Matthew Klingle...

Necessary Work: Discovering Old Forests, New Outlooks, And Community on the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, 1948-2000.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... NECESSARY WORK: DISCOVERING OLD FORESTS, NEW OUTLOOKS, AND COMMUNITY ON THE H.J. ANDREWS EXPERIMENTAL FOREST, 1948-2000 by Max G. Geier U.S. Department of Agriculture, Portland, Oregon, 2007. Illustrations,...

Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... GENDER AND GENERATION ON THE FAR WESTERN FRONTIER by Cynthia Culver Prescott University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2007. Illustrations, photographs, tables, notes, bibliography, index. 230 pages. $49.95 cloth. During...

The First Oregonians: Second Edition.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... THE FIRST OREGONIANS: SECOND EDITION edited by Laura Berg Oregon Council for the Humanities, Portland, 2007. Photographs, bibliography, index. 360 pages. $22.95 paper. The second edition of The First Oregonians offers...

A Tree Rooted in Faith: A History of Queen of Angels Monastery.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... A TREE ROOTED IN FAITH: A HISTORY OF QUEEN OF ANGELS MONASTERY by Alberta Dieker Wipf & Stock Publishers, Inc., Eugene, Oregon, 2007. Photographs, notes. 217 pages. $24.00 paper. Sister Alberta Dieker, a longtime member...

To Harvest, to Hunt: Stories of Resource Use in the American West.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... TO HARVEST, TO HUNT: STORIES OF RESOURCE USE IN THE AMERICAN WEST by Judith L. Li Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2007. Photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 200 pages. $18.95 paper. Bioregional...

The 1870 Ghost Dance.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... THE 1870 GHOST DANCE by Cora Dubois edited by Thomas Buckley University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2007. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. 378 pages. $19.95 paper. Thomas Buckley, an...

Lewis and Clark: Weather and Climate Data from the Expedition Journals.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... LEWIS AND CLARK: WEATHER AND CLIMATE DATA FROM THE EXPEDITION JOURNALS by Vernon Preston foreword by Terry Nathans American Meteorological Society, Boston, 2006. Illustrations, photographs, maps, bibliography. ...

Dear Medora: Child of Oysterville's Forgotten Years.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... DEAR MEDORA: CHILD OF OYSTERVILLE'S FORGOTTEN YEARS by Sydney Stevens Washington State University Press, Pullman, 2007. Illustrations, photographs, maps, index. 180 pages. $24.95 paper. After the funeral, a universal...

Can't You Hear the Whistle Blowin': Logs, Lignite, and Locomotives in Coos County, Oregon, 1859-1930.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... CAN'T YOU HEAR THE WHISTLE BLOWIN': LOGS, LIGNITE, AND LOCOMOTIVES IN COOS COUNTRY, OREGON, 1859-1930 by William Lansing Self-published, North Bend, Oregon, 2007. Photographs, maps, appendix, bibliography, index. 144...

Letters.(Letter to the editor)
June 22, 2008... To the Editor: In my continuing quest for information on Edward Bellamy and the interest in his work in the Pacific Northwest (see "Looking Backward at Edward Bellamy's Impact in Oregon," Oregon Historical Quarterly 104:1 Spring 2003), I...

Corrections.(Correction notice)
June 22, 2008... "Making 'Good Music': The Oregon Symphony and Music Director Jaques Singer, 1962-1971," published in the Spring 2008 issue of the Oregon Historical Quarterly (109:1), contained errors on pages 68 and 72. The Oregon Symphony played at Pacific...

Oregon Historical Society research library: recently acquired and processed collections.(NOTICES)
June 22, 2008... Cicero H. Lewis Collection The Oregon Historical Society recently acquired the Cicero H. Lewis (1826-1897) Collection. Cicero H. Lewis, who was born in Cranbury, N.J., arrived in Portland in about 1851. With Lucius H. Allen, he operated a...

OregonScape.(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Oregon has many geologic landmarks: Crater Lake, Mount Hood, the Columbia River Gorge, Fort Rock, and others. They were formed so long ago that most people think of them as having been here forever. One landmark...