Oregon Historical Quarterly articles from September 2003

Oregon Historical Quarterly archives from September 2003

York of the corps of discovery: interpretations of York's character and his role in the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
September 22, 2003... In 1803, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark assembled a diverse company to accomplish a task set for them by President Thomas Jefferson and authorized by Congress--to travel from the Mississippi Valley to the Pacific Coast, crossing outside the...

Organizing Portland: organized crime, municipal corruption, and the teamsters union.
September 22, 2003... IN MID-TWENTIETH-CENTURY Portland, gambling dens, brothels, and unlicensed bars operated virtually uninhibited by police as long as vice racketeers paid scheduled kickbacks to key city law enforcement officials. Despite Mayor Dorothy Lee's...

Reins, riggings, and reatas: the outfit of the Great Basin buckaroo.
September 22, 2003... THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE LINE about cowboys may have been captured in the old ballad The Streets of Laredo: "I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy." (1) A cowboy's clothes and the gear he uses for everyday work have always distinguished him...

The Oregon art of Alexander Phimister Proctor.
September 22, 2003... RARELY HAS THE STATE OF OREGON established so affectionate and rewarding a relationship with an artist of international renown as it did in the early 1900s with sculptor Alexander Phimister Proctor. In the mid-1910s, when Proctor's place in...

Tall tales, true tales: Ernest Haycox and researching the old west.(Oregon Voices)
September 22, 2003... OVER A CAREER spanning twenty--eight years, Ernest Haycox wrote twenty-four novels and nearly three hundred short stories. He was frequently seen in leading national weeklies Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post and probably was the former's...

High Desert Museum.(Spotlight on Museums)
September 22, 2003... 59800 S. Highway 97 Bend, Oregon 97702-7963 Phone 541-382-4754 Fax 541-382-5256 E-mail: info@highdesertmuseum.org Web site: www.highdesertmuseum.org THE HIGH DESERT MUSEUM opened to the public in 1982, the culmination of...

Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, and the Creation of the American West.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2002. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. 336 pages. $34.95 cloth. Reviewed by Gene M. Gressley Jacksonville, Oregon LITERATURE ON frontier promoters and boosters abounds. What...

The Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: A Bibliography and Essays.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Ore., 2003. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 315 pages. $75.00 cloth. Reviewed by David L. Nicandri Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma THIS IS THE TYPE OF BOOK...

Changing Landscapes: "Sustaining Traditions" Proceedings of the Fifth and Sixth Annual Coquille Cultural Preservation Conferences.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Coquille Indian Tribe, North Bend, Ore., 2002. Illustrations, photographs, maps, bibliography. 200 pages. $25.00 paper. Reviewed by David V Ellis Archaeological Investigations Northwest, Portland, Oregon AT A TIME WHEN the...

Dispatches and Dictators: Ralph Barnes for the Herald Tribune.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2002. Notes, bibliography, index, 320 pp., $24.95 cloth. Reviewed by David Sarasohn Portland, Oregon STARTING FROM OREGON, Ralph Barnes went everywhere. Working for the New York...

From Conquest to Conservation: Our Public Lands Legacy.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Island Press, Washington, D.C., 2003. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. 224 pages. $40.00 cloth, $22.50 paper. Reviewed by William G. Robbins Oregon State University, Corvallis IF THERE IS CONTINUITY to western...

Gay Seattle: Stories of Exile and Belonging.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2003. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. 464 pages. $28.95 cloth. Reviewed by Peter Boag University of Colorado, Boulder WITHIN THE PAST FEW YEARS, scholars of the Pacific...

Adapting in Eden: Oregon's Catholic Minority, 1838-1986.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Washington State University Press, Pullman, 2003. Photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 224 pages. $21.95 paper. Reviewed by Robert Bunting Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado AMERICAN CATHOLIC historical studies...

Print the Legend: Photography and the American West.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 2002. Photographs, notes, index. 416 pages. $39.95 cloth. Reviewed by Richard W. Etulain University of New Mexico, Albuquerque THIS VALUABLE BOOK is notably important for two reasons....

Clarence C. Dill: The Life of a Western Politician.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Washington State University Press, Pullman, 2000. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 252 pages. $22.95 paper. Reviewed by Gene Tollefson Bonneville Power Administration (retired), Portland THE MIXED public and private...

Undelivered Letters to Hudson's Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-57.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 2003. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. 512 pages. $85.00 cloth, $34.95 paper (Canadian). Reviewed by Barbara Belyea University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta THE UNDELIVERED...

Washington Territory.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Washington State University Press, Pullman, 2002. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 288 pages. $35.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. Reviewed by Daniel Herman Central Washington University, Ellensburg ROBERT FICKEN'S Washington...

Book notes.(Jeannette Rankin: America's Conscience)(Elusive Truth: Four Photographers at Manzanar)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Jeannette Rankin: America's Conscience, by Norma Smith, introduction by Kathryn Anderson (Montana Historical Society Press, Helena, 2002. Photographs, bibliography, index. 239 pages. $17.95 paper) Jeannette Rankin of Montana has the...

Notices.
September 22, 2003... Elizabeth C. Winroth Maps Acquisitions Fund Established In honor of its longtime maps librarian, the Oregon Historical Society has created the Elizabeth C. Winroth Maps Acquistion Fund. For nearly twenty-seven years, Liz Winroth strove to...