Oregon Historical Quarterly articles from June 2009

Oregon Historical Quarterly archives from June 2009

Oregon democracy: Asahel Bush, slavery, and the statehood debate.(OREGON VOICES)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2009... As editor of the Oregon Statesman, Asahel Bush guided Oregon's political leaders through the greatest challenge of the times--successfully negotiating statehood within the tense national debates on slavery that led up to the Civil War. Bush's...

Oregon's last conservative U.S. Senator: some light upon the little-known career of Guy Cordon.(Oregon voices)(Biography)
June 22, 2009... Guy Cordon of Douglas County was an earnest, hard-working tax attorney who found himself appointed to national office in 1944, thereby becoming the last reliably conservative Republican senator that Oregon sent to Washington, D.C. Following...

The architectural legacy of the 1959 centennial Exposition.(Oregon Places)(Report)
June 22, 2009... Fifty years ago, centennial-themed festivals, ceremonies, parades, balls, exhibits, rodeos, and jamborees filled event schedules in even the smallest towns in Oregon throughout the state's centennial celebration, which began on February 14,...

100 years at a time: memories of Oregon's centennial.(Oregon Voices)(Travel narrative)
June 22, 2009... I wonder if the world remembers that in 1959, the southern Oregon coast, Coos and Curry counties, became the "Banana Belt" of Oregon. I remember because it was also the summer I shook John F. Kennedy's hand and showed thousands of tourists a...

Oregon historical society.(Brief article)
June 22, 2009... Founded 1898 John H. Herman, president Jim Richardson, vice president Dr. Lesley Hallick, secretary Marc Berg, treasurer George L. Vogt, executive director Champ C. Vaughan, president, Oregon Geographic Names Board...

A Passion For Nature: The Life of John Muir.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... A PASSION FOR NATURE: THE LIFE OF JOHN MUIR. by Donald Worster Oxford University Press, New York, 2008. Photographs, maps, notes, index. 535 pages. $34.95 cloth. The life and work of naturalist John Muir has long been fascinating...

How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change In Western North America.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... HOW CITIES WON THE WEST: FOUR CENTURIES OF URBAN CHANGE IN WESTERN NORTH AMERICA by Carl Abbott University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2008. Photographs, maps, tables. 376 pages. $34.95 cloth. The history of the American...

Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... MOBILIZING MINERVA: AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR by Kimberly Jensen University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 2008. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 264 pages. $65.00 cloth. $30.00 paper....

American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species: Strangers on the Land.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... AMERICAN PERCEPTIONS OF IMMIGRANT AND INVASIVE SPECIES: STRANGERS ON THE LAND by Peter Coates University of California Press, Berkeley, 2006. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. 266 pages. $39.95 cloth. Finding myself in...

"They Are All Red Out Here": socialist politics in the Pacific Northwest, 1895-1925.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... "THEY ARE ALL RED OUT HERE": SOCIALIST POLITICS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, 1895-1925 by Jeffrey A. Johnson University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2008. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 240 pages. $34.95 cloth. At a...

Paul Horiuchi: East and West.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... PAUL HORIUCHI: EAST AND WEST by Barbara Johns University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 2008. Illustrations, bibliography, index. 128 pages. $29.95 paper. Art historian and independent curator Barbara Johns has...

The Governance of Western Public Lands: Mapping Its Present and Future.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... THE GOVERNANCE OF WESTERN PUBLIC LANDS: MAPPING ITS PRESENT AND FUTURE by Martin Nie University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2008. Photographs, notes, index. 376 pages. $39.95 cloth. Thoughtful, policy-oriented political...

Aurora: An American Experience in Quilt, Community, and Craft.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... AURORA: AN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN QUILT, COMMUNITY, AND CRAFT by Jane Kirkpatrick WaterBrook Press, Colorado Springs, 2008. Photographs, maps, notes, index. 167 pages. $17.95 cloth. Oregon history buffs, genealogists, and...

Central Oregon Place Names Volume ii: Jefferson County.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... CENTRAL OREGON PLACE NAMES VOLUME II: JEFFERSON COUNTY by Steve Lent Crook County Historical Society, Prineville, Oregon, 2008. Photographs, maps, bibliography. 359 pages. $24.95 paper. Steve Lent, in his Central Oregon Place...

A Pictorial History of Gold Mining in the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF GOLD MINING IN THE BLUE MOUNTAINS OF EASTERN OREGON by Howard Brooks Baker County Historical Society, Baker City, Oregon, 2007. Photographs, maps, bibliography, index. 200 pages. $20.00 paper. When...

A Remarkable Curiosity: Dispatches from a New York City Journalist's 1873 Railroad Trip Across the American West.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2009... A Remarkable Curiosity: Dispatches from a New York City Journalist's 1873 Railroad Trip Across the American West by Amos Jay Cummings, compiled and edited by Jerald T. Milanich University Press of Colorado, Boulder, 2008. ...

Marching with the First Nebraska: A Civil War Diary.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Marching with the First Nebraska: A Civil War Diary by August Scherneckau, edited by James E. Potter and Edith Robbins, and translated by Edith Robbins University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2007. Illustrations, maps, bibliography,...

Adventures in the West: Stories for Young Readers.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Adventures in the West: Stories for Young Readers edited by Susanne George Bloomfield and Eric Melvin Reed University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2007. Illustrations, bibliography. 282 pages. $19.95 paper. Adventures in the...

Portland Fire & Rescue.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Portland Fire & Rescue by Brian Johnson and Don Porth Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina, 2007. Photographs, maps, index. 127 pages. $19.99 paper. Authors Brian K. Johnson, an archivist for the City of Portland,...

Oregon's Covered Bridges.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Oregon's Covered Bridges by Bill Cockrell Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina, 2008. Photographs. 127 pages. $19.99 paper. During the 1920s, Oregon boasted more than 350 covered bridges. Years later and through...

Letters.(Letter to the editor)
June 22, 2009... To the Editor: There are several matters which mar slightly Janice Dilg's otherwise fine article, " 'For Working Women in Oregon' " (Spring 2009). All relate to legal issues. First, Ms. Dilg states that "Muller successfully appealed...

Corrections.(Correction notice)
June 22, 2009... On page 38 of the Spring 2009 (110:1) issue of OHQ, Thomas Vaughan's name is incorrectly spelled. The Fourth of July Buckeroo, held every year in Molalla, Oregon, is incorrectly spelled on page 155. The editor is grateful to readers for their...

Notices.(Oregon TimeWeb)(Brief article)
June 22, 2009... The Oregon Historical Society is pleased to present the Oregon TimeWeb, an interactive Web site specifically designed around the State of Oregon Social Studies benchmarks and funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities We...

Oregonscape.(photograph of the Barlow Road tollgate)
June 22, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the fall of 1845, Samuel Kimbrough Barlow (1792-1867) arrived with his family in The Dalles and, learning of the delay that his party would have to suffer in order to continue on through the Columbia River Gorge...