Oregon Historical Quarterly articles from March 2004

Oregon Historical Quarterly archives from March 2004

"Without a Second's Warning": the Heppner Flood of 1903.(Oregon Places)
March 22, 2004... A top a hill in the rolling wheat fields and grazing lands of Morrow County lies the Heppner cemetery. A walk through its manicured lawns and orderly clusters of grave markers reveals much about the community nestled in the narrow valley below....

Peeling off the emulsion: the City of Portland Photographic Collection, 1913-1943.(Research Files)
March 22, 2004... What is she is looking at, the woman in the center of the frame of Fifth / Morrison, 1927? She perches on the curb, toes floating above the street, feet tied into Mary Janes with lacy bows. She has just readjusted the briefcase in her right...

A tribute: Gordon Barlow Dodds: March 12, 1932-August 29, 2003.(Obituary)
March 22, 2004... The passing of Gordon Barlow Dodds, Professor Emeritus of History at Portland State University (PSU), on August 29, 2003, was a profound loss, not only to his family, friends, and colleagues but also to all those who value the scholarship of...

Clatsop County Historical Society.(Spotlight on Affiliates)
March 22, 2004... Clatsop County Historical Society 1618 Exchange Street Astoria, Oregon 97103 Phone: (503) 325-2203 E-mail: CaptainFlavel@aol.com Website: www.clatsophistoricalsociety.org OHS Affiliate since 1945 One of Oregon's...

The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By Robert D. Johnston Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 2003. Photographs, maps, tables, notes, index. 418 pages. $35.00 cloth Robert Johnston is a passionately engaged scholar. He has discovered things about the history of early...

Murdering Holiness: the Trials of Franz Creffield and George Mitchell.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By Jim Phillips and Rosemary Gartner University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2003. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 352 pages. $29.95 paper Team researched and written, Jim Phillips and Rosemary Gartner's Murdering...

Lelooska: the Life of a Northwest Coast Artist.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By Chris Friday University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2003. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 304 pages. $24.95 paper. Don (Lelooska) Smith was one of the most recognized and beloved Native Americans living in the Pacific...

Puget's Sound: a Narrative of Early Tacoma and the Southern Sound.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By Murray Morgan Introduction by William L. Lang University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2003. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, index. 372 pages. $22.50 paper. The late Murray Morgan (1916-2000) is part of the first rank of an...

Voyages of Delusion: the Quest for the Northwest Passage.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By Glyn Williams Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 2002. Illustrations, photographs, maps, index. 487 pages. $29.95 cloth. Publishers love, it seems, to play around with book titles. A case in point is Glyn Williams's new book, which...

Hope in Hard Times: New Deal Photographs of Montana, 1936-1942.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By Mary Murphy Montana Historical Society Press, Helena, 2003. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 256 pages. $22.00 cloth. The New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt reshaped many American lives and much of the...

Writing for Her Life: the Novelist Mildred Walker.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By Ripley Hugo University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2003. Photographs, bibliography, index. 314 pages. $29.95 cloth. Mildred Walker (1905-1998) published thirteen acclaimed novels between 1934 and 1970. Although largely forgotten until...

A Matter of Conscience: Essays on the World War II Heart Mountain Draft Resistance Movement.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Edited by Mike Mackey Western History Publications, Powell, Wyoming, 2002. Notes, bibliography, index. 185 pages. $15.95 paper. Americans are dedicated to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, a principle that philosophers refer to...

White Poplar, Black Locust.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By Louise Wagenknecht University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2003. Illustrations, bibliography. 263 pages. $26.95 cloth. Memoirs are inherently subjective documents, shaped by the author's reformulations of memories through the years and...

Americanizing the West: Race, Immigrants, and Citizenship, 1890-1930.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By Frank Van Nuys University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, 2002. Illustrations. 336 pages. $35.00 cloth. Frank Van Nuys has written a compelling account of the rise and fall of "Americanization"--the effort to assimilate so-called new...

The Buffalo Soldiers: a Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West, revised edition.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By William H. Leckie, with Shirley A. Leckie University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2003. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 336 pages. 29.95 cloth. After the Civil War, African American soldiers helped with U.S....

Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: a Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By Peter E. Palmquist and Thomas R. Kailbourn, foreword by Martha A. Sandweiss Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2000. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography. 701 pages. $125.00 cloth. Pioneer Photographers of the Far...

At Home with the Bella Coola Indians: T.F. McIlwraith's Field Letters, 1922-4.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Edited by John Barker and Douglas Cole University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 2003. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 224 pages. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paper (Canadian). At Home with the Bella Coola Indians is primarily a...

Gold Rush Capitalists: Greed and Growth in Sacramento.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By Mark Eifler University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2002. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. 288 pages. $39.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. Gold Rush Capitalists is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the formation of...

The Oral History Manual.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By Barbara W. Sommer and Mary Kay Quinlan AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, Calif., 2002. Illustrations, bibliography, index. 144 pages. $70.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. The Oral History Manual attempts to bridge the gap between theoretical...

The Great Frontier.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Great Frontier, by Walter Prescott Webb, foreword by William D. Rowley (Univ. of Nevada Press, Reno and Las Vegas, 2003. Bibliography, index. 464 pages. $21.95 paper) First published in 1952, Webb's book is a discussion of the entire...

Fugitive Slave in the Gold Rush: Life and Adventures of James Williams.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Fugitive Slave in the Gold Rush: Life and Adventures of James Williams, by James Williams, introduction by Malcolm J. Rohr-bough (Univ. of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2002. Illustrations, index. 144 pages. $16.95 paper) Born a slave in 1825,...

Plants of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Plants of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, by H. Wayne Phillips (Mountain Press Publishing, Missoula, Mont., 2003. Photographs, illustrations, maps, glossary, appendix, bibliography, index. 278 pages. $20.00 paper) The author, a former...

Riches for All: the California Gold Rush and the World.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Riches for All: The California Gold Rush and the World, edited by Kenneth N. Owens (Univ. of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2002. Maps, index. 380 pages. $27.95 paper) The fourteen essays in this collection form a broad social history of the...

Call for Articles on the Stevens Treaties.(Notices)
March 22, 2004... The Oregon Historical Quarterly is interested in receiving manuscripts and proposals for a special issue on the Stevens-Palmer Treaties, to be published in the fall of 2005 in commemoration of the sesquicentennial. The journal is especially...

Oregon Heritage Conference.(Notices)
March 22, 2004... The 2004 Oregon Heritage Conference will be held May 6-8 in Ashland, Oregon. The conference theme is "Creating and Preserving the Many Faces of Heritage." For more information, see the Oregon Heritage Commission Web site at...

Pacific Northwest History Conference.(Notices)
March 22, 2004... The 57th annual Pacific Northwest History conference will be held in conjunction with the conferences of the Northwest Archivists and the Northwest Oral History Association May 6-8, 2004, at the Red Lion Inn, Olympia, Washington. For more...

New Collections at the OHS Research Library.(Notices)(Ohio Historical Society)
March 22, 2004... Two newly processed collections are available to Research Library patrons. John Ainsworth Mills Family papers, 1799-2002 (bulk 1894-1965) The papers of the family of John Ainsworth (Jack) Mills of Oregon include photographic materials,...

Master of the seas? Herbert Hoover and the western fisheries.
March 22, 2004... Herbert Hoover has been a slippery historical figure. He has been caricatured as the savior of Belgium or the man who sicced Douglas MacArthur on the Bonus Marchers, and mythic images of him run the gamut from Great Humanitarian to bloodless...

"May Live and Die a Miner": the 1864 Clarksville Diary of James W. Virtue.
March 22, 2004... For decades, the Oregon Trail led explorers, mountain men, and emigrants through eastern Oregon until finally, in 1861, the discovery of gold provided the catalyst for whites to settle in Baker Valley. In the history of Baker County, the Oregon...

"Does Portland need a homophile society"? Gay culture and activism in the Rose City between World War II and Stonewall.
March 22, 2004... In the April 1972 edition of the Fountain, Portland's first gay and lesbian newspaper, George Nichols, a local activist, reflected on the recent successful political organizing done among gays and lesbians in Seattle while lamenting the lack of...

It's never too late to give away a horse.(Oregon Voices)
March 22, 2004... David Liberty is Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla and is a descendant of the Nez Perce leader Old Chief Joseph on his father's side. He was born on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in northeastern Oregon, where he lived for the first twelve...