Oregon Historical Quarterly articles from September 2002

Oregon Historical Quarterly archives from September 2002

Protesting monuments to progress: a comparative study of protests against four dams, 1838-1955.
September 22, 2002... THE HARNESSING OF NATURE for human needs has profoundly transformed wild landscapes, creating a domesticated terrain suited to large-scale agriculture and industrial production. For thousands of years, people have used water storage for...

Pioneering free library service for the city, 1864-1902: the Library Association of Portland and the Portland Public Library.
September 22, 2002... It is in the public library, with its treasures free alike to rich and poor, that society must seek its final defense against sciolism in politics and economics; against blind and unreasoning discontent; against the ennui of the...

Lady loggers and gyppo wives: women and Northwest logging.
September 22, 2002... IN 1945, Margaret Elley Felt began logging with her husband in western Washington. As she struggled to raise her two daughters in an isolated logging camp near Mount Rainier, she cooked for her husband's co-workers, kept the books, drove to...

Bandon Historical Society Coquille River Museum. (Affiliate Spotlight).
September 22, 2002... 270 Fillmore at Highway 101 P.O. Box 737 Bandon, Oregon 97411 Phone/Fax 541-347-2164 E-mail: bandonhistoricmuseum@yahoo.com jnrknox@harborside.com Web site: not yet available OHS Affiliate since 1997 THE BANDON HISTORICAL...

Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism By Char Miller Island Press, Washington, D.C., 2001. Photographs, notes, index. 468. pages. $28.00 cloth. IN MAY OF 1911, citizens of Cordova, Alaska, led by members of the...

Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island By Daniel W. Clayton University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 2000. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 352 pages. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paper...

The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains By Dan Flores University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2001. Photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 297 pages. $29.95 cloth. WITH THE NATURAL WEST,...

Ice Window: Letters from a Bering Strait Village, 1892-1902.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Ice Window: Letters from a Bering Strait Village, 1892-1902 Edited by Kathleen Lopp Smith and Verbeck Smith, foreword by Dorothy Jean Ray University of Alaska Press, Anchorage, 2002. Illustrations, photographs, maps, bibliography, index....

Villard: The Life and Times of an American Titan.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Villard: The Life and Times of an American Titan By Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave and John Cullen Doubleday, New York, 2001. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 428 pages. $30.00 cloth. HENRY VILLARD is no stranger to students...

Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana's Smelter City.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana's Smelter City By Laurie Mercier University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2001. Photographs, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. 314 pages. $49.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. A...

Northern Haida Master Carvers.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Northern Haida Master Carvers By Robin K. Wright, foreword by Jim Hart, Chief 7idansuu University of Washington Press, Seattle, and Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, 2001. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 399...

White Grizzly Bear's Legacy: Learning to Be Indian.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... White Grizzly Bear's Legacy: Learning to Be Indian By Lawney L. Reyes University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2002. Photographs, maps, bibliography. 215 pages. $23.95 cloth. THEY RODE THROUGH THE EVENING and all of the night. Hungry...

Hunting and the American Imagination.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Hunting and the American Imagination By Daniel Justin Herman Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 2001. Illustrations, notes, index. 282 pages. $29.95 cloth. AMERICAN HUNTING TRADITIONS constitute a subject historians have...

Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California Edited by Lawrence B. DeGraaf, Kevin Mulroy, and Quintard Taylor Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles, in association with University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2001....

Book notes.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2002... Magnificent Failure: A Portrait of the Western Homestead Era, by John Martin Campbell, with an introduction by Kenneth W. Karsmizki (Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2002. 183 pages. Black & white duotone photographs, appendix,...

Keith Clark. (Notices).(Obituary)
September 22, 2002... We are sad to announce that Keith Clark, a historian in Redmond, Oregon, died on July 5, 2002. Clark's involvement with OHQ and the Oregon Historical Society Press spans many years. The author of Redmond: Where the Desert Blooms (OHS Press,...

Palmer award to be presented at annual meeting. (Notices).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... The Joel Palmer Award for the best articles published in the Oregon Historical Quarterly each year will be presented at the Oregon Historical Society's annual meeting on Tuesday, November 19, 2002. Members are encouraged to attend. Recipients...

Donald J. Sterling, Jr., research fellowships. (Notices).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... The Oregon Historical Society announces the recipients of the first Sterling Fellowships, designed to encourage original, scholarly, interpretive research in Pacific Northwest history. Peter Boag, assistant professor of history at the...

Pacific Northwest Historians Guild conference, March 1, 2003. (Notices).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Academic historians and independent scholars as well as community historians, journalists, filmmakers, oral historians, and folklorists are welcome at the eighteenth annual conference of the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild. This year's...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
September 22, 2002... To the Editor: I have been associated with Crater Lake ever since I was employed there as a seasonal park ranger naturalist in 1966. I have both a scientific interest in and a passion for this great National Park. I really enjoyed...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
September 22, 2002... In the Winter 2001 issue, a caption on page 428 refers to a "portable mill saw." The machine pictured would have been used for cutting firewood and was commonly referred to as a "wood saw." Such saws were not used in sawmills and could not cut...