Oregon Historical Quarterly articles from March 2003

Oregon Historical Quarterly archives from March 2003

Our ways: history and culture of Mexicans in Oregon.(Oregon Voices)
March 22, 2003... ANTONIO RAMOS FIRST ARRIVED in Oregon in 1985. In his early twenties, he had left his home village in Michoacan, Mexico, in search of job opportunities and to join an older brother in Oregon. Ramos found plenty of agriculturaljobs but no...

Tamastslikt Cultural Institute.(Affiliate Spotlight)
March 22, 2003... Tamastslikt Cultural Institute 72789 Highway 331 Pendleton, Oregon 97801 Phone 541-966-9748 Fax 541-966-9927 E-mail: contact @tamastslikt.com Web site: www.tamastslikt.com OHS Affiliate since 1994 THE...

A Walk toward Oregon: A Memoir.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2001. Photographs, index. 345 pages. $17.95 Paper. Reviewed by Katrine Barber Portland State University, Portland, Oregon IN A SHORT FORWARD, historian Alvin Josephy describes his memoir as a...

Alaska: An American Colony.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2002. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 392 pages. $29.95 cloth. Reviewed by Kathryn Morse Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont ALASKA: AN AMERICAN COLONY represents an...

Fifty years after The Big Sky: New Perspectives on the Fiction and Films of A.B. Guthrie, Jr.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Montana Historical Society Press, Helena, in cooperation with the O'Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West, Missoula, 2001. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 328 pages. $39.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Reviewed by...

Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2002. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography. 472 pages. $27.50 paper. Reviewed by Gail Lee Dubrow University of Washington, Seattle WITH THE PUBLICATION OF Confinement and Ethnicity, the...

Warm Springs Millennium: Voices from the Reservation.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... University of Texas Press, Austin, 2000. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, index. 179 pages. $35.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. Reviewed by Jarold Ramsey University of Rochester, Rochester, New York WARM SPRINGS MILLENNIUM is not the...

Covered Wagon Women, vol. 10, Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1879-1903.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Covered Wagon Women, vol. 10, Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1879-1903 University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2000. Photographs, index. 288 pages. $13.00 paper Covered Wagon Women, vol. 11, Diaries and Letters from the...

Mary Hallock Foote: Author-Illustrator of the American West.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2002. Oklahoma Western Biographies, vol. 19. Photographs, bibliography, index. 315 pages. $29.95 cloth. Reviewed by Judy Nolte Temple University of Arizona. Tucson THOSE UNFAMILIAR with the...

Watershed: The Undamming of America.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Counterpoint, New York, 2002. Notes, bibliography, index. 256 pages. $26.00 cloth. Reviewed by Jeff Crane Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Missouri AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTALISM has always been a complex movement, and in recent decades it...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
March 22, 2003... In the article "Picking up the Drum;" OHQ 103:3, fall 2002, the caption and credit lines on page 354 should have noted that the map of Wallowa Country was originally drawn in 1983, not 1963, by Janet Hohmann for The Wallowa Country, 1867 1877,...

Rethinking Home: A Case for Writing Local History.(reviews of seven books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Rethinking Home: A Case for Writing Local History University of California Press, Berkeley, 2002. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. 261 pages. $48.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. Eastern Oregon Books and Print: An Annotated and Historical...

Book notes.(collection of five brief reviews)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Not Just Trees: The Legacy of a Douglas fir Forest, by Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds, foreword by Robert Michael Pyle (Washington State University Press, Pullman, Wash., 1999. Maps, photographs, appendix, glossary, references, index. 352 pages....

Notices.
March 22, 2003... Oregon history project launches The Oregon Historical Society announces the launch of the Oregon History Project, an exciting interactive on-line resource for learning about Oregon history. The site (www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/)...

Painting the Philippines with an American brush: visions of race and national mission among the Oregon volunteers in the Philippine wars of 1898 and 1899.
March 22, 2003... ON JANUARY 26, 1902, the U.S. Senate opened a series of hearings to investigate the origins and conduct of the ongoing war in the Philippines. For three and a half years, American troops had fought there, first against the Spanish in 1898 and...

Rodeo Queens at the Pendleton round-up: the first go-round, 1910-1917.
March 22, 2003... IN SEPTEMBER 2001, seventeen thousand spectators filled the stands as the announcer opened the ninety-first annual Frontier Day Celebration in Pendleton, Oregon. At exactly 1:15 P.M., a cannon fired a parachute patterned after the U.S. flag...

Looking backward at Edward Bellamy's influence in Oregon, 1888-1936.
March 22, 2003... ON THE EVENING of Friday, November 6,1936, Mrs. Emma S. Bellamy and Miss Marion Bellamy addressed a public meeting in Portland's Congregation Ahavai Shalom on the topics of "Edward Bellamy as I Knew Him" and "Edward Bellamy Today." The wife and...

British newspapers and the Oregon Treaty of 1846.
March 22, 2003... In 1846, THE UNITED STATES and Great Britain finally settled their long-standing dispute over the boundary between the U.S. and British Canada in the Oregon Country, a dispute that became known as the "Oregon Question." The first official...