Oregon Historical Quarterly articles from March 2002

Oregon Historical Quarterly archives from March 2002

Water Like Sky : Reflections on Crater Lake National Park at One Hundred Years.
March 22, 2002... Crater Lake is one of the nation's greatest scenic wonders. Like a lens of sky, the lake is deep, blue, and astonishingly beautiful. For one hundred years, it has been preserved as a national park, sixth in line after Yellowstone (1872),...

Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910.
March 22, 2002... Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910 by Stephen J. Pyne Viking Penguin, New York, 2001. Dramatis personae, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 336 pages. $25.95 cloth. The great fires that raged across...

Tradition in a Turbulent Age: Whitman College, 1925-1975.
March 22, 2002... Tradition in a Turbulent Age: Whitman College, 1925-1975 by G. Thomas Edwards Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, 2001. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 633 pages. $29.95 cloth. This is one of the best histories of...

Finding the West: Explorations with Lewis and Clark.
March 22, 2002... Finding the West: Explorations with Lewis and Clark by James Ronda University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2001. Maps, notes, index. 160 pages. $22.95 cloth. Neither Meriwether Lewis nor William Clark dreamed of the...

Mining Frontiers of the Far West, 1848-1880.
March 22, 2002... Mining Frontiers of the Far West, 1848-1880 by Rodman Wilson Paul, revised and expanded by Elliott West University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2001. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 360 pages. $21.95 paper. ...

Women in Pacific Northwest History.
March 22, 2002... Women in Pacific Northwest History, revised edition edited by Karen J. Blair University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2001. Photographs, table, notes, bibliography, index. 334 pages. $22.50 paper. This anthology surveys new and recent...

Lewis and Clark Meet Oregon's Forests: Lessons from Dynamic Nature.
March 22, 2002... Lewis and Clark Meet Oregon's Forests: Lessons from Dynamic Nature by Gail Wells and Dawn Anzinger Oregon Forest Resources Institute, Portland, Oregon, 2001. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 223 pages. $14.95...

The Medicine Line: Life and Death on a North American Borderland.
March 22, 2002... The Medicine Line: Life and Death on a North American Borderland by Beth LaDow Routledge, New York, 2001. Photographs, maps, notes, index. 290 pages. $25.00 cloth. The boundary line between Canada and the United States has been...

A Sto:l[macron]o-Coast Salish Historical Atlas.
March 22, 2002... A Sto:l[macron]o-Coast Salish Historical Atlas edited by Keith Thor Carlson University of Washington Press, Seattle; Douglas and McIntyre, Vancouver, B.C.; Sto:l[macron]o Heritage Trust, Chilliwack, B.C., 2001. Illustrations, photographs,...

Outlaws of the Pacific Northwest.
March 22, 2002... Outlaws of the Pacific Northwest by Bill Gulick Caxton Press, Caldwell, Idaho, 2000. Photographs, maps, bibliography, index. 213 pages. $18.95 paper. The name Bill Gulick is well known in the film industry, among moviegoers...

Encyclopedia of Local History.
March 22, 2002... Encyclopedia of Local History edited by Carol Kammen and Norma Prendergast Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, 2000. Illustrations, notes, appendices. 555 pages. $79.95 cloth. A famous archbishop (I can't remember who it was!) once said...

Our Native American Legacy: Northwest Towns with Indian Names and Central Oregon Place Names and Central Oregon Place Names.
March 22, 2002... Our Native American Legacy: Northwest Towns with Indian Names by Sandy Nestor Caxton Press, Caldwell, Idaho, 2001. Photographs, maps, notes, index. 307 pages. $17.95 paper. Central Oregon Place Names, volume 1, Crook County by Steve...

Nature's Justice: Writings of William O. Douglas.
March 22, 2002... Nature's Justice: Writings of William O. Douglas edited by James M. O'Fallon Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2000. Photographs, bibliography, index. 320 pages. $35.00 cloth. Portland State University, Portland, Oregon...

Book Notes.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... North of Athabasca: Slave Lake and Mackenzie River Documents of the North West Company, 1800-1821, edited and annotated by Lloyd Keith (McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, Quebec, 2001. Tables, maps, glossary, notes, bibliography, index....

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
March 22, 2002... Thank you to William E. Burr II of Portland for pointing out to us that the Pentagon is in Virginia, not Washington, D.C., as we indicated in the Winter issue of OHQ (p. 415). In the same issue, we introduced an error in Yvonne Haida's...

A Most Sacred Place : The Significance of Crater Lake among the Indians of Southern Oregon.
March 22, 2002... There's nowhere else in the world like Crater Lake. It was one of our most sacred places. It still is. --Klamath elder, 1999 Long before Europeans glimpsed the Pacific Northwest, Crater Lake was well known to many Native peoples of the...

He All but Made the Mountains : William Gladstone Steel, Mountain Climbing, and the Establishment of Crater Lake National Park.
March 22, 2002... In 1902, William Gladstone Steel's seventeen-year effort to achieve protective legislation for Crater Lake reached fruition, but the story of his involvement in the creation of Crater Lake National Park began well before his first visit to the...

Photography and the Making of Crater Lake National Park.
March 22, 2002... The first impression made by the view breaking upon me all at once was that I saw the inverted vault of heaven with a wall of delicately tinted rock...all reflected like a painting in a mirror upon this blue transparency! It is impossible to...

A Study in Appreciation of Nature : John C. Merriam and the Educational Purpose of Crater Lake National Park.
March 22, 2002... If inspiration is a creative force or a divine influence leading to great works or understanding, then it is also highly relative to individuals and resists precise definition. For John Campbell Merriam, inspiration lay at an intersection of...

Changes Its Look.(Editorial)
March 22, 2002... Historical journals have a deserved reputation as conservative publications that detail how our predecessors went about life in a time quite removed from our own. They avoid the hype and flash associated with popular magazines that dot the...