Oregon Historical Quarterly articles from September 2001

Oregon Historical Quarterly archives from September 2001

The Good Fight Forest Fire Protection and the Pacific Northwest.
September 22, 2001... IN A HOT SUMMER AFTERNOON IN AUGUST 1990, a campfire burst into flames and quickly spread into the thick, tinder-dry underbrush of second-growth ponderosa pine along Tumalo Creek in a canyon just to the west of Bend, Oregon. Within minutes,...

The Spiritual Shelters of Pietro Belluschi.(church architecture)
September 22, 2001... Pietro Belluschi's buildings have played significant roles in many Oregonians' lives. Belluschi, Oregon's most noted twentieth-century architect, is known in the state primarily for his design of the Portland Art Museum on the city's Park...

Sacagawea's Son as a Symbol.
September 22, 2001... IN RECENT MONTHS, Sacagawea's child has come out of the footnotes of history to an enduring fame around the world. His image -- or the image of a baby representing him -- now shines on a brightly minted dollar coin, and his story is sure to be...

The Changing Climate of Oregon's Driest Town : Monmouth's Prohibition Ordinances, 1859-2001.
September 22, 2001... MORE THAN A DOZEN WOMEN, MANY WEARING long, dark skirts, white blouses, and fashionable Victorian hats, walked single-file through Monmouth City Park on a summer afternoon, carrying signs that pleaded "Please Protect Us by Voting against the...

Here and There : An Itinerant Worker in the Pacific Northwest, 1898.
September 22, 2001... Introduction by Carlos A. Schwantes One distinguishing feature of life in the Pacific Northwest during the waning years of the nineteenth century was the large number of itinerant workers who called the region home -- at least temporarily....

A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell.
September 22, 2001... A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell, by Donald Worster Oxford University Press, New York, 2001. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. 673 pages. $35.00 cloth. In Rivers of Empire (1985), prize-winning historian...

Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West.
September 22, 2001... Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West, by Patricia Nelson Limerick W.W. Norton, New York, 2000. Notes, index. 384 pages. $27.95 cloth. In the late 1980s, Patricia Limerick set out to persuade the world that...

Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity.
September 22, 2001... Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity, by David Hurst Thomas Basic Books, New York, 2000. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, index. 366 pages. $25.00 cloth, $18.00 paper. Although...

Wild in the City: A Guide to Portland's Natural Areas.
September 22, 2001... Wild in the City: A Guide to Portland's Natural Areas, edited by Michael C. Houck and M.J. Cody Oregon Historical Society Press, Portland, 2000. Illustrations, photographs, maps, tables, bibliography, index. 447 pages. $21.95 paper. ...

Legends of Our Times: Native Cowboy Life.
September 22, 2001... Legends of Our Times: Native Cowboy Life, by Morgan Baillargeon and Leslie Tepper University of Washington Press, Seattle, published in association with the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Quebec, 2000. Photographs, maps, bibliography,...

Women and Nature: Saving the "Wild" West.
September 22, 2001... Women and Nature: Saving the "Wild" West, by Glenda Riley University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1999. Photographs, notes, index. 300 pages. $24.95 paper. Dr. Theodora Morris Cope Stanwell-Fletcher (1906-2000), one of the first women...

Dream a Little: Land and Social Justice in Modern America.
September 22, 2001... Dream a Little: Land and Social Justice in Modern America, by Dorothee E. Kocks University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000. Notes, index. 275 pages. $45.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. Dorothee Kocks was trained as a historian but now is...

Exploring Coast Salish Prehistory: The Archaeology of San Juan Island.
September 22, 2001... Exploring Coast Salish Prehistory: The Archaeology of San Juan Island, by Julie K. Stein University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2000. Photographs, maps, tables, bibliography, index. 135 pages. $17.95 paper. For those who are...

Nearby History: Exploring the Past around You.
September 22, 2001... Nearby History: Exploring the Past around You, by David E. Kyvig and Myron A. Marty AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, Calif., 2000. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, index. 301 pages. $65.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. I am hardly a...

The Struan: From Saint John to Sandlake.
September 22, 2001... The Struan: From Saint John to Sandlake, by Whitcomb Crichton Nimbus Publishing, Halifax, N.S., 1999. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. 259 pages. $27.95 cloth. Of the sixty-nine ship disasters recorded by maritime historian Don...

Fishing the Northwest: An Angler's Reader.
September 22, 2001... Fishing the Northwest: An Angler's Reader, edited by Glen Love Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2000. Northwest Readers series. 240 pages. $28.95 cloth. Like most fine books, Fishing the Northwest provides more than its title...

Celluloid Indians: Native Americans and Film.
September 22, 2001... Celluloid Indians: Native Americans and Film, by Jacquelyn Kilpatrick University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1999. Photographs, notes, index. 279 pages. $19.95 paper. Celluloid Indians is an above-average introduction to the domestic film...

Fishy Business: Salmon, Biology, and the Social Construction of Nature.
September 22, 2001... Fishy Business: Salmon, Biology, and the Social Construction of Nature, by Rik Scarce Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2000. Animals, Culture, and Society series. Notes, index. 248 pages. $59.50 cloth, $19.95 paper. This book...

A Country in the Mind: Wallace Stegner, Bernard DeVoto, History, and the American Land.
September 22, 2001... A Country in the Mind: Wallace Stegner, Bernard DeVoto, History, and the American Land, by John L. Thomas Routledge, New York, 2000. Illustrations, photographs, map, notes, index. 264 pages. $22.00 cloth. Writing western history on...

BOOK NOTES.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Pendleton Woolen Mills (Avanyu Publishing, distributed by the University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2000. Illustrations. 40 pages. $11.95 paper.) Early in the twentieth century, Pendleton started marketing blankets that incorporated...

LETTERS.
September 22, 2001... To the Editor: My memories and historical interests converged while reading Rudy Pearson's revealing article in the Summer 2001 issue of OHQ about racism and the segregation of African Americans in Portland during World War II. The article...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
September 22, 2001... "Unrealized Visions: Medford and the City Beautiful Movement," by Robert D. Russell, Jr., OHQ 102, no. 2 (Summer 2001) incorrectly referred to the Oregon and Transcontinental Company railroad on page 196. The correct name should be the Oregon...