Oregon Historical Quarterly articles from March 2005

Oregon Historical Quarterly archives from March 2005

From The Poet in the Desert.(Poem)
March 22, 2005... From The Poet in the Desert Silence invincible; impregnable; Compelling the soul to stand forth And be questioned. Night overwhelms me. Coyotes bark to the stars. Upon the midnight sand I lie, Thoughtfully...

Broadway Cabs yellow with age.(Oregon Voices)
March 22, 2005... BACK THEN--way back then--yellow was the enemy, the good guys wore black, and the Great Depression was wearing everyone out. Back before two-way radio, before one-way streets, before "veteran-owned" appeared on the doors of postwar Radio Cabs...

A chronicle of the battleship Oregon.
March 22, 2005... THERE WAS A TIME when the battleship Oregon ranked among the most famous ships of the U.S. Navy. The Oregon's nearly sixty-five-year career encompassed an epic sea voyage, action in a pivotal battle of the Spanish American War, and service as a...

Lincoln County Historical Society.(Spotlight on Affiliates)
March 22, 2005... Lincoln County Historical Society 545 Southwest 9th Street Newport, OR 97365 Phone 541-265-7509 OHS Affiliate since 1950 THE LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY was formed in 1948 to preserve and tell the history of...

Oregon's Promise: an Interpretive History.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Oregon's Promise: An Interpretive History By David Peterson del Mar Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2003. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 320 pages. $19.95 paper. Reviewed by Charles P. LeWarne Edmonds, Washington...

Oregon Geographic Names, seventh edition.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Oregon Geographic Names, seventh edition By Lewis A. McArthur and Lewis L. McArthur Oregon Historical Society Press, Portland, 2003. Photographs, maps, index. 1,088 pages. $75.00 cloth, $35.00 paper. Reviewed by Alexander B. Murphy...

New Era: Reflections on the Human and Natural History of Central Oregon.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... New Era: Reflections on the Human and Natural History of Central Oregon By Jarold Ramsey Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2003. Photographs, notes. 160 pages. $14.95 paper. Reviewed by Thomas C. Buell Portland State...

Portland: People, Politics, and Power, 1851-2001.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Portland: People, Politics, and Power, 1851-2001 By Jewel Lansing Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2003. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 592 pages. $29.95, cloth. Reviewed by Geoffrey B. Wexler Oregon...

A Hundred Little Hitlers: the Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America By Elinor Langer Metropolitan Books, New York, 2003; paperback ed., Picador USA, New York, 2004. Notes,...

The Nehalem Tillamook: an Ethnography.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Nehalem Tillamook: An Ethnography By Elizabeth Jacobs, edited by William R. Seaburg Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2004. Illustrations, notes, references, index. 272 pages. $21.95 paper. Reviewed by Rick Minor Heritage...

A Voyage to the North West Side of America: the Journals of James Colnett, 1786-89.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... A Voyage to the North West Side of America: The Journals of James Colnett, 1786-89 By Robert Galois University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 2003. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 456 pages. $95.00 cloth. ...

American Indians in U.S. History.(book)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... American Indians in U.S. History By Roger L. Nichols University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2003. Photographs, maps, chapter bibliographies, index. 242 pages. $29.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. Reviewed by Jeffrey Ostler University of Oregon,...

On Sacred Ground: the Spirit of Place in Pacific Northwest Literature.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... On Sacred Ground: The Spirit of Place in Pacific Northwest Literature By Nicholas O'Connell University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2003. Bibliography, index. 224 pages. $24.95 paper. Reviewed by Albert Furtwangler Salem, Oregon ...

Morning Star Dawn: the Powder River Expedition and the Northern Cheyennes, 1876.
March 22, 2005... Morning Star Dawn: The Powder River Expedition and the Northern Cheyennes, 1876 By Jerome Greene University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2003. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 304 pages. $34.95 cloth. ...

Calaveras Gold: the Impact of Mining on a Mother Lode County.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Calaveras Gold: The Impact of Mining on a Mother Lode County By Ronald H. Limbaugh and Willard P. Fuller, Jr. University of Nevada Press, Reno, 2004. Photographs, maps, tables, notes, index. 416 pages. $39.95 cloth. Reviewed by Brian...

Viola Martinez, California Paiute: Living in Two Worlds.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Viola Martinez, California Paiute: Living in Two Worlds By Diana Myers Bahr University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2003. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 211 pages. $29.95 cloth. Reviewed by Manna Kathleen Brown...

With a Dauntless Spirit: Alaska Nursing in Dog-Team Days, Six Personal Accounts.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... With a Dauntless Spirit: Alaska Nursing in Dog-Team Days, Six Personal Accounts Edited Effie Graham, Jackie Pflaum, and Elfrida Nord University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks, 2003. Maps, photographs, endnotes, bibliography, appendix, index....

Notices.(Public Notice)
March 22, 2005... 2006 Sterling Fellowships in Pacific Northwest History The Oregon Historical Society is accepting applications for Donald J. Sterling, Jr., Research Fellowships to encourage original, scholarly, interpretive research in Pacific Northwest...

Soldier to advocate: C.E.S. Wood's 1877 Diary of Alaska and the Nez Perce conflict.
March 22, 2005... CLOSE TO GRADUATING from the United States Military Academy in spring 1874, Charles Erskine Scott Wood strongly disliked the idea of becoming an army officer. The cadet who later became the "one officer [who] rejected the fundamental assumption...

The Columbia Country and the dissolution of Meriwether Lewis: speculation and interpretation.
March 22, 2005... FEW ASPECTS OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION elicit as much debate and discussion as the circumstances surrounding the death of Meriwether Lewis in October 1809, a little more than three years after the conclusion of his voyage to the Pacific....

Town Boosterism on Oregon's Mining Frontier: James Vansyckle and Wallula, Columbia Riverport, 1860-1870.
March 22, 2005... DURING THE EARLY SETTLEMENT of the Pacific Northwest, land speculators dreamed of the wealth they could reap in the region. In the 1840s and 1850s, speculation in the Oregon Territory focused along the Willamette River and on farmlands...

A long, strange yarn: Ken Kesey and the Pendleton Round-Up.
March 22, 2005... READERS OF WESTERN FICTION have a seemingly endless capacity to enjoy accounts of heroes in white hats overcoming long odds to emerge victorious in the end. For over a century, there has been a steady demand for stories about such festive...