Oregon Historical Quarterly articles from March 2007

Oregon Historical Quarterly archives from March 2007

The labor of caring: a history of the Oregon Nurses Association.(Organization overview)
March 22, 2007... THE OREGON NURSES ASSOCIATION (ONA) has its origins in the flurry of organizational activities undertaken by women in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. A rapidly industrializing economy, momentous immigration and migration...

Eyes of the earth: Lily White, Sarah Ladd, and the Oregon Camera Club.
March 22, 2007... Nature is full of pictures, and they are to be found in what appears to the uninitiated the most unlikely places. Let the honest student then choose some district with which he is in sympathy, and let him go there quietly and spend a few...

Remittance men and the character of Cannon Beach.
March 22, 2007... ON JULY 21, 1885, the Daily Astorian reported this local news: Frederick Logan and Joseph Walsh, ranchmen at Seaside, Clatsop, arrived in town on Saturday. They came via Tillamook and Forest Grove, making the trip in three and a half days....

Memories of the 1948 Vanport Flood.(OREGON VOICES)(Personal account)
March 22, 2007... ON MEMORIAL DAY, May 30, 1948, Vanport--a city of 18,000 people--was destroyed in the matter of a few hours by floodwaters from Smith Lake and the Columbia River, which broke through the SP&S north-south railroad line landfill. As I began to...

Talegate: a trombone tableau.(OREGON VOICES)
March 22, 2007... TAILGATE: Back end of wagon in New Orleans with band playing and trombonist pointing horn over tailgate; New Orleans style of jazz trombone TALEGATE: Trombonist who becomes writer IT'S FALL 1944, I'm fourteen years old and looking for...

Last call--Portland's jazz clubs.(OREGON VOICES)
March 22, 2007... Most jazz dubs in Portland tended to settle into a particular musical niche. The Jazz Quarry had a house band, but would also bring in an eclectic mix of national acts. The music at the Upstairs Lounge often featured Hammond B-3 organ trios....

Oregon Indians: Voices from Two Centuries.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... OREGON INDIANS: VOICES FROM TWO CENTURIES edited by Stephen Dow Beckham Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2006. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, index. 608 pages. $45.00 cloth. Oregon Indians: Voices from Two...

Lewis and Clark through Indian Eyes.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... LEWIS AND CLARK THROUGH INDIAN EYES edited by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2006. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes. 214 pages. $25.00 cloth. No non-Native looms larger in the historiography of indigenous...

Down in My Heart: Peace Witness in War Time.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... DOWN IN MY HEART: PEACE WITNESS IN WAR TIME by William Stafford Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2006. Photographs. 126 pages. $15.95 paper. In 1942, a young William Stafford joined approximately 12,000 other federally...

Public Power, Private Dams: the Hell's Canyon High Dam controversy.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... PUBLIC POWER, PRIVATE DAMS: THE HELL'S CANYON HIGH DAM CONTROVERSY by Karl Boyd Brooks University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2006. Photographs, maps, notes, index. 319 pages. $35.00 cloth. This splendid book is a convincing...

Windshield Wilderness: cars, roads, and nature in Washington's National Parks.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... WINDSHIELD WILDERNESS: CARS, ROADS, AND NATURE IN WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARKS by David Louter University of Washington press, Seattle, 2006. Illustrators, photographs, maps notes, bibliography, index. 257 page. $35 or cloth. ...

Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... BLOOD STRUGGLE: THE RISE OF MODERN INDIAN NATIONS by Charles Wilkinson W.W. Norton, New York, 2005. Photographs, maps, table, notes, index. 558 page. $15.95 paper. "We are still here." This is the message that American Indian...

At Home in the Vineyard: cultivating a winery, an industry, and a life.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... AT HOME IN THE VINEYARD: CULTIVATING A WINERY, AN INDUSTRY, AND A LIFE by Susan Sokol Blosser University of California Press, Berkeley, 2006. Illustrations, photographs, maps, tables, index. 236 pages. $24.95 cloth. Barely forty...

Authentic Indians: episodes of encounter from the late-nineteenth-century Northwest Coast.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... AUTHENTIC INDIANS: EPISODES OF ENCOUNTER FROM THE LATE-NINETEENTH-CENTURY NORTHWEST COAST by Paige Raibmon Duke University Press, Durham, N. C., 2005. Photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 324 pages. $22.95 paper. Using...

Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... SELF-DETERMINATION: THE OTHER PATH FOR NATIVE AMERICANS by Terry L. Anderson, Bruce L. Benson, and Thomas E. Flanagan Stanford University Press, Stanford, Cal., 2006. Maps, tables, bibliography, index. 332 pages. $35.00. cloth. One...

Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail: a history in the American West.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... JEWISH WOMEN PIONEERING THE FRONTIER TRAIL: A HISTORY IN THE AMERICAN WEST by Jeanne E. Abrams New York University Press, 2006. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 279 pages. $39.00 cloth. Jeanne Abrams's Jewish Women...

In the Thick of it: my life in the Sierra Club.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... IN THE THICK OF IT: MY LIFE IN THE SIERRA CLUB by J. Michael McCloskey Island Press, Washington, D.C., 2005. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 414 pages. $29.99 cloth. It is fair to say that in the post-World War II era few...

Takhoma: Ethnography of Mount Rainier National Park.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... TAKHOMA: ETHNOGRAPHY OF MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK by Allan H. Smith Washington State University Press, Pullman, 2006. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. 182 pages, $22.95 paper. In 1963, Washington State...

By his own hand?: the mysterious death of Meriwether Lewis.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... BY HIS OWN HAND?: THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF MERIWETHER LEWIS edited by John D.W. Guice University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2006. Illustrations, photographs, tables, notes, bibliography, index. 199 pages. $24.95. cloth. Shortly...

Northwest Passages: a history of the Seattle District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... NORTHWEST PASSAGES: A HISTORY OF THE SEATTLE DISTRICT U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, VOLUME II 1920-1970 by William F. Willingham U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 2006. Illustrations, photographs, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index....

John Frank Stevens: American trailblazer.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... JOHN FRANK STEVENS: AMERICAN TRAILBLAZER by Odin Baugh Arthur H. Clark, Spokane, Wash., 2005. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 251 pages. $32.50 cloth. John Frank Stevens, the subject of this modest...

Letters.(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2007... To the Editor: Compliments to R. Gregory Nokes for his article in the Fall 2006 Quarterly entitled "A Most Daring Outrage." His depiction of the 1887 Chinese massacre in Hell's Canyon of the Snake River provides a new level of...

OHS Research Library.(NOTICES)(Oregon Historical Society )
March 22, 2007... Spanish-American War photographs collection, 1895-1932 (inclusive) 1898-1901 (bulk) Quantity: .85 cubic feet (2,043 photographs, 424 photomechanical prints, and 94 lantern slides in 16 document boxes and oversize boxes) This collection...