Oregon Historical Quarterly articles from March 2008

Oregon Historical Quarterly archives from March 2008

Notes on Native American Place-names of the Willamette Valley Region.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... THE FIRST KNOWN DIRECT CONTACT between speakers of a lower--Columbia-River indigenous language and speakers of a European language occurred in 1792, when the American trading ship Columbia Redeviva, under Captain Robert Gray, succeeded in...

"We should lose much by their absence": the Centrality of Chinookans and Kalapuyans to Life in Frontier Oregon.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... GUIDING AMERICAN FUR TRADING VESSELS around the daunting Columbia Bar and into the dangerous waters of the Columbia River's mouth in the early 1810s, Ramsey, a Chinook person who lived at the mouth of the river, knew the importance of his...

Making "good music": the Oregon Symphony and music director Jacques Singer, 1962-1971.
March 22, 2008... Show me an orchestra that likes its conductor and I'll show you a lousy orchestra. --Goddard Lieberson A conductor is exactly that, do you know what I mean? Like a conductor of electricity. He does not originate the electricity of the...

Discovering gold in Baker County Library's photograph collection.(RESEARCH FILES)
March 22, 2008... HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS CAN draw us into the past like Alice through the looking glass, but, like Alice in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, we have to be curious and the photograph has to invite that curiosity. One such photograph archived at...

Artist Ray Strong: an enduring vision of the Oregon landscape.(OREGON VOICES)(Biography)
March 22, 2008... IT WAS A CRISP OCTOBER MORNING as our two-car caravan headed out from the Frenchglen Hotel, bouncing along the dusty, washboarded road to the top of Steens Mountain. In the van ahead of me rode one-hundred-year-old artist Ray Strong, who had...

A look at The Veracious Chronicles of the Cliff Cottage Club.(OREGON VOICES)(Essay)
March 22, 2008... "THERE ARE SCORES OF MEN who have made large fortunes and some of them are fabulously wealthy. I wish I could find out the way to do it;" wrote Peter Kerr in November 1892, not long after he moved to Portland.' After traveling the world for...

Oregon historical society.(Brief article)(List)
March 22, 2008... Founded 1898 GUY A. RANDLES, president JOHN H. HERMAN, vice president JAMES T. RICHARDSON, secretary STEVE TERRY, treasurer GEORGE L. VOGT, executive director CHAMP C. VAUGHAN, president, Oregon Geographic Names Board...

Pathways To The Present: U.S. Development and its Consequences In The Pacific.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... PATHWAYS TO THE PRESENT: U.S. DEVELOPMENT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES IN THE PACIFIC by Mansel G. Blackford University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 2007. Photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 278 pages. $48.00 cloth. In 2001,...

Race, Religion, Region: Landscapes Of Encounter in the American West.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... RACE, RELIGION, REGION: LANDSCAPES OF ENCOUNTER IN THE AMERICAN WEST edited by Fay Botham and Sara M. Patterson University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2006. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 197 pages. $40.00 cloth....

Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, The Sioux, And The Panic of 1873.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... JAY COOKE'S GAMBLE: THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD, THE SIOUX, AND THE PANIC OF 1873 by M. John Lubetkin University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2006. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 398 pages. $29.95 cloth. In...

Washington State: The Inaugural Decade, 1889-1899.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... WASHINGTON STATE: THE INAUGURAL DECADE, 1889-1899 by Robert E. Ficken Washington State University Press, Pullman, 2007. Photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 288 pages. $21.95 paper. The state of Washington is fortunate to...

Dreams Of The West: A History Of The Chinese In Oregon 1850-1950.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... DREAMS OF THE WEST: A HISTORY OF THE CHINESE IN OREGON 1850-1950 edited by Nancy D'Inillo Ooligan Press, Portland, Oregon, 2007. Illustrations, photographs, maps, bibliography, index. 109 pages. $19.95 paper. Who were the pioneers...

Voices From The Street: Truths About Homelessness From Sisters Of The Road.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... VOICES FROM THE STREET: TRUTHS ABOUT HOMELESSNESS FROM SISTERS OF THE ROAD edited by Jessica Morrell Gray Sunshine Publishing, Portland, Oregon, 2007. Illustrations, photographs, index. 384 pages. $24.95 paper. Over the course of...

Biography Of A Place: Passages Through A Central Oregon Meadow.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... BIOGRAPHY OF A PLACE: PASSAGES THROUGH A CENTRAL OREGON MEADOW by Martin Winch Deschutes County Historical Society, Bend, Oregon, 2006. Photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 294 pages. $24.95 paper. Martin Winch has...

National Park, City Playground: Mount Rainier In The Twentieth Century.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... NATIONAL PARK, CITY PLAYGROUND: MOUNT RAINIER IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Theodore Catton University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2006. Photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 236 pages. $18.95 paper. Everyone remembers...

My Montana: A History And Memoir, 1930-1950.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... MY MONTANA: A HISTORY AND MEMOIR, 1930-1950 by Jewel Lansing Inkwater Press, Portland, Oregon, 2007. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 297 pages. $22.95 paper. Jewel Lansing's My Montana: A History and...

The Cowboy Girl: The Life Of Caroline Lockhart.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... THE COWBOY GIRL: THE LIFE OF CAROLINE LOCKHART by John Clayton University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2007. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 321 pages. $21.95 paper. John Clayton's lively account of Caroline Lockhart is a...

The Portland Red Guide: Sites & Stories Of Our Radical Past.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... THE PORTLAND RED GUIDE: SITES & STORIES OF OUR RADICAL PAST by Michael Munk Ooligan Press, Portland, Oregon, 2007. Illustrations, photographs, maps, index. 253 pages. $16.95 paper. There is an alternate version of American history,...

A Soul On Trial: A Marine Corps Mystery At The Turn Of The Twentieth Century.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... A SOUL ON TRIAL: A MARINE CORPS MYSTERY AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Robin R. Cutler Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Maryland, 2007. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 382 pages. $26.95 cloth....

Letters.(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2008... To the Editor: Eckard Toy's "Whose Frontier" (OHQ vol. 107, no. 1), concerning mainly American-Japanese immigrant relations in the 1920s, stimulates me to contribute some memories from childhood. In 1927-1934, from ages five through...

George Himes Diaries (Mss 1462) Now Open for Research.(NOTICES)
March 22, 2008... The Oregon Historical Society would not exist in its present form without the work of George H. Himes (1844-1940). Serving as the Society's first curator from its beginning in 1898, Himes assembled a vast horde of historical materials that form...

OHS Research Library Awarded a $5,000 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant.(NOTICES)(Oregon Historical Society)(Brief article)
March 22, 2008... The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a preservation assistance grant of $5,000 to the Oregon Historical Society for a research library project titled "Topical Collections Preservation Project." The Topical Collections are...

Corrections.(Correction notice)
March 22, 2008... "The Labor of Caring: A History of the Oregon Nurses Association," published in the Spring 2007 issue of the Oregon Historical Quarterly (108:1), contained an error on page 24 that was further debated in an exchange of letters to the editor...

Oregonscape.(World Forestry Center)(Brief article)
March 22, 2008... The buildings and exhibits of Portland's 1905 world's fair, the Lewis and Clark Centennial and American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair, celebrated the region's current prosperity and looked toward a bright future in the new century. But...