Oregon Historical Quarterly articles from March 2006

Oregon Historical Quarterly archives from March 2006

"Trophies" for God: native mortality, racial ideology, and the Methodist Mission of lower Oregon, 1834-1844.
March 22, 2006... IN 1831, A GROUP OF NEZ PERCE and Flathead Indians reversed the familiar story of the American West by venturing eastward from the Columbia Plateau to St. Louis, the Americans' "gateway to the West." Unfortunately, St. Louis residents did not...

Whose frontier? The survey of race relations on the Pacific Coast in the 1920s.
March 22, 2006... THERE WERE FATAL FLAWS in President Woodrow Wilson's belief that fighting a war against Imperial Germany in 1917 would make the world safe for democracy. The Great War of 1914-1918 had already set in motion events that would undermine Wilsonian...

Billy and Merne's excellent expedition: the "Lost" screenplay of "Lewis and Clark".(Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806)
March 22, 2006... AS THE BICENTENNIAL OF the Lewis and Clark Expedition nears the end of its trail, it is fitting to look back and examine how Americans have viewed these explorers at other points in time and how those views were themselves reflective of their...

Guild's lake industrial district: the process of change over time.(PHOTO ESSAY)
March 22, 2006... AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH century, swampy, flood-prone Guild's Lake occupied approximately 220 acres between the busy Willamette River and the foothills of a rambling, wild forest northwest of the city (today's Forest Park). The area was the...

Mutual respect and equality: an advocate for Indian students in Oregon.(Floy Childers Pepper)
March 22, 2006... AS A YOUNG WOMAN IN College, Floy Childers Pepper declared that she would never be a teacher. She thought this because her mother was a teacher and she wanted to do something different. Pepper's mother, a German woman married to a Creek Indian,...

Comin' and goin': memories of Jazzman Jim Pepper.(OREGON VOICES)
March 22, 2006... THE SPEAKERS WERE FONDLY articulate, the music was superb, the event deeply sad. A memorial, at the Northwest Service Center in Port-land, Oregon, on February 21, 1992, commemorated the passing of a jazz musician. In the century or so that jazz...

The origins of the Oregon State Library.(RESEARCH FILES)
March 22, 2006... THE FIRST OREGON STATE Librarian, Cornelia Marvin Pierce, had at least two occasions to publicly reflect on the origins of the Oregon State Library. Both times, she began the story with her arrival in Oregon in August 1905. In her 1928...

Living Among Headstones: Life in a Country Cemetery.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... LIVING AMONG HEADSTONES: LIFE IN A COUNTRY CEMETERY by Shannon Applegate Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 2006. Illustrations, bibliography. 320 pages. $24.00 cloth. THIS IS A VERY BEAUTIFUL, albeit unconventional, book. Defying ordinary...

The Cayuse Indians: Imperial Tribesmen of Old Oregon.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... THE CAYUSE INDIANS: IMPERIAL TRIBESMEN OF OLD OREGON by Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown foreword by William L. Lang introduction by Roberta Conner University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2005 Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index....

The Mapmaker's Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... THE MAPMAKER'S EYE: DAVID THOMPSON ON THE COLUMBIA PLATEAU by Jack Nisbet Washington State University Press, Pullman, 2005. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 192 pages $29.95 paper. WHY IS IT SOME EXPLORERS become culture...

Native American Placenames of the United States.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... NATIVE AMERICAN PLACENAMES OF THE UNITED STATES by William Bright University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2004. Bibliography, 608 pages. $59-95. cloth. THIS IS AN AMAZING compilation of more than twelve thousand American Indian-derived...

When Skins Were Money: A History of the Fur Trade.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... WHEN SKINS WERE MONEY: A HISTORY OF THE FUR TRADE by James A. Hanson Museum of the Fur Trade, Chadron, Nebraska, 2005. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. 228 pages. $34.95 cloth, $. paper. FROM THE OUTSET, James A. Hanson writes as...

Assimilation's Agent: My Life as a Superintendent in the Indian Boarding School System.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... ASSIMILATION'S AGENT: MY LIFE AS A SUPERINTENDENT IN THE INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL SYSTEM by Edwin L. Chalcraft edited and with an introduction by Cary C. Collins University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2004. Illustrations, notes, bibliography,...

The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... THE SALISH PEOPLE AND THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION by Salish-Pend d'Oreille Culture Committee and Elders Cultural Advisory Council, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2005. Illustrations, notes,...

Sacagawea's Child: The Life and Times of Jean-Baptiste (Pomp) Charbonneau.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... SACAGAWEA'S CHILD: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JEAN-BAPTISTE (POMP) CHARBONNEAU by Susan M. Colby Arthur H. Clark, Spokane, Washington, 2005. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 203 pages. $28.50 cloth. JEAN-BAPTISTE CHARBONNEAU is...

Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... VENEREAL DISEASE AND THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION by Thomas Lowry University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2004. Photographs, maps, tables, index. 117 pages. $21.95 cloth.. DR. THOMAS LOWRY, a retired psychiatrist from the University of...

The 1985 Pacific Salmon Treaty: Sharing Conservation Burdens and Benefits.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... THE 1985 PACIFIC SALMON TREATY: SHARING CONSERVATION BURDENS AND BENEFITS by M.P. Shepard and A.W. Argue University of British ColumBIA Press, Vancouver, 2005. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. 304 pages. $85.00 cloth. FOR TWO...

Montana Justice: Power, Punishment, and the Penitentiary.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... MONTANA JUSTICE: POWER, PUNISHMENT, AND THE PENITENTIARY by Keith Edgerton University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2004. Illustrations, photographs, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. 200 pages. $22.50 paper. IN THIS SHORT BOOK,...

Our Box Was Full: An Ethnography for the Delgamuukw Plaintiffs.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... OUR BOX WAS FULL: AN ETHNOGRAPHY FOR THE DELGAMUUKW PLAINTIFFS by Richard Daly University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 2004. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 400 pages. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. RICHARD DALY, an...

Corrections.(Correction notice)
March 22, 2006... The Winter 2005 Oregon Historical Quarterly (106:4) included errors on pages 556 and 586. On page 556, it is noted that Lewis and Clark visited the village at Cathlapotle and presented its chief with a medal on their outbound trip in 1805....

To the editor.(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2006... To the Editor: I'd like to call to your attention to an error in this interesting story of Tektronix (OHQ vol. 106, no. 4). On page 586, it is stated that Howard Vollum died in a plane crash in 1986. Howard died in 1986 of natural causes....

"Wooden Beams and Railroad Ties" wins National Award.(Wooden Beams and Railroad Ties: The History of Oregon's Built Environment)(National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers)(Brief article)
March 22, 2006... "Wooden Beams and Railroad Ties: the History of Oregon's Built Environment," a narrative of the Oregon Historical Society's online Oregon History Project and a series of workshops for teachers and the public, won two National Conference of...

Pacific Northwest History Conference.
March 22, 2006... The 59th annual Pacific Northwest History Conference will meet in Portland on April 27-29, 2006 in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Northwest Oral History Association. The theme of the conference is "Making Sense of Place: Regional...

Northwest Archives annual meeting.
March 22, 2006... The annual meeting of the Northwest Archivists, Inc. will be held in Butte, Montana on May 18-20, 2006. The Northwest Archivists, Inc. is a regional association of professional archivists, users of archives, and others interested in the...

Oregon Heritage Conference.(NOTICES)
March 22, 2006... The 2006 Oregon Heritage Conference will take place from May 18 to 20 in Coos Bay, Oregon. Stephen Dow Beckham will be the keynote speaker for the conference, whose theme will be "Heritage Preservation: It's a Local Story." The conference is...