Oregon Historical Quarterly articles from September 2004

Oregon Historical Quarterly archives from September 2004

A tribute: Rick Harmon: August 30, 1952--May 20, 2004.(Obituary)
September 22, 2004... Rick Harmon, editor of the Oregon Historical Quarterly from 1987 to 1999, died on May 20, 2004. We are grateful to Steve Hallberg for allowing us to reprint part of the eulogy he wrote for Rick and to Rick's other colleagues for helping us...

Dissecting the Columbia.
September 22, 2004... An Introduction EURO-AMERICAN EXPLORERS had seen much of the world before they directed their attention to the northwest corner of North America. Mariners from Spain, Great Britain, and the United States had circumnavigated the globe...

Describing a new environment: Lewis and Clark and enlightenment science in the Columbia River Basin.
September 22, 2004... IN AUGUST 1805, the Corps of Discovery topped the Continental Divide after a laborious journey up the Missouri River--more than thirty-one hundred miles, by William Clark's later reckoning, from their departure point at the river's mouth. (1)...

The evolving landscape of the Columbia River Gorge: Lewis and Clark and cataclysms on the Columbia.
September 22, 2004... RAVELERS RETRACING LEWIS AND CLARK'S JOURNEY to the Pacific over the past two hundred years have witnessed tremendous change to the Columbia River Gorge and its primary feature, the Columbia River. Dams, reservoirs, timber harvest, altered...

Focusing on the Columbia Gorge: photography, geology, and the pioneer west.
September 22, 2004... LEWIS AND CLARK WERE SUCH CAREFUL OBSERVERS of the landscape that they set a "methodological precedent" for future surveys and explorations of the American West, as Jim E. O'Conner explains in this issue. The rigorous observations in their...

Where have all the native fish gone? The fate of fish that Lewis and Clark encountered on the lower Columbia River.
September 22, 2004... Fish group of have been part of the fabric of Northwest peoples' lives for thousands of years. History, archaeology, and oral traditions of living peoples make this long-term connection clear. A nineteenth-century engraving by John Mix Stanley...

Still exploring, still learning in 1806: observations of the Lewis and Clark expedition between the Columbia and the Bitterroot Range.
September 22, 2004... IT WAS MIDMORNING--eleven o'clock, to be exact--on the final day of April in 1806 when the members of the Corps of Discovery turned their backs forever on the Columbia River. The River of the West had been in their thoughts since at least...

Soyaapo and the remaking of Lewis and Clark.
September 22, 2004... ONE OF THE PECULIARITIES of writing Native history is the unconscious tendency to move back and forth between past and present landscapes. This might well be called the "what is now" trope, as in this recent description of Nez Perce country in...

Columbia Gorge Discovery Center Wasco County Historical Museum.(Spotlight on Affiliates)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and Wasco County Historical Museum 5000 Discovery Drive The Dalles, OR 97058 Phone 541-296-8600 Web site: www.gorgediscovery.org OHS Affiliate since 1998 THE COLUMBIA GORGE DISCOVERY CENTER and Wasco County...

The Ordeal of Thomas Jefferson.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Whirl Is King Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase, by Roger G. Kennedy. Oxford University Press, New York, 2003. Photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 368 pages. $30.00 cloth, $16.95...

One Vast Winter Count: the Native American West before Lewis and Clark.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark By Colin G. Calloway University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2003. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 646 pages. $39.95 cloth. MAKE ROOM on the...

Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark By William Clark, edited and with an introduction by James J. Holmberg Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 2003. Photographs, maps, index. 352 pages. $18.00 paper. OVER THE...

Arts of Diplomacy: Lewis and Clark's Indian Collection.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Arts of Diplomacy: Lewis and Clark's Indian Collection By Castle McLaughlin University of Washington Press, Seattle, and Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 2004. Illustrations, tables, notes,...

I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company: a Novel of Lewis and Clark.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark by Brian Hall Viking, New York, 2003. 431 pages. $25.95 cloth, $14.00 paper. The True Account: A Novel of the Lewis and Clark and Kinneson Expeditions by Howard...

Interpreters with Lewis and Clark: the Story of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Interpreters with Lewis and Clark: The Story of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau By W. Dale Nelson University of North Texas Press, Denton, 2003. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 183 pages. $24.95 cloth. ...

Sheheke, Mandan Indian Diplomat: the Story of White Coyote, Thomas Jefferson, and Lewis and Clark.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Sheheke, Mandan Indian Diplomat: The Story of White Coyote, Thomas Jefferson, and Lewis and Clark By Tracy Potter Farcountry Press and Fort Mandan Press, Helena, Mont., 2003. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 208 pages....

Lewis and Clark Territory: Contemporary Artists Revisit Place, Race, and Memory.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Lewis and Clark Territory: Contemporary Artists Revisit Place, Race, and Memory By Rock Hushka and Thomas Red Owl Haukaas University of Washington Press, Seattle, and Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Wash., 2004. Photographs, bibliography, 0o...

A Vast and Open Plain: the Writings of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in North Dakota, 1804-1806.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... A Vast and Open Plain: The Writings of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in North Dakota, 1804-1806 Edited by Clay S. Jenkinson State Historical Society of North Dakota, Bismarck, 2003. Illustrations, photographs, maps, tables. 648 pages....

Lewis and Clark Revisited: a Photographer's Trail.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Lewis and Clark Revisited: A Photographer's Trail By Greg MacGregor, edited by Iris Tillman Hill, introduction by James P. Ronda University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2004. Photographs, maps. 224 pages. $50.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. ...

Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains: a Natural History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains: A Natural History By Paul A. Johnsgard University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2004. Illustrations, maps, index. 156 pages. $14.95 paper. I AM DELIGHTED with Professor Emeritus Paul Johnsgard's book...

Traveling the Lewis and Clark Trail Third edition.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Traveling the Lewis and Clark Trail Third edition By Julie Fanselow Falcon Publishing, Guilford, Conn., 2003. Photographs, maps, index. 336 pages. $15.95 paper. Adventuring along the Lewis and Clark Trail by Elizabeth Grossman ...

The Lewis and Clark Columbia River Water Trail: a Guide for Paddlers, Hikers, and Other Explorers.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Lewis and Clark Columbia River Water Trail: A Guide for Paddlers, Hikers, and Other Explorers By Keith G. Hay Timber Press, Portland, Ore., 2004. Photographs, maps, tables, bibliography, index. 240 pages. $19.95 paper. JUST IN TIME...

Book notes.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Beyond Lewis and Clark: The Army Explores the West, by James P. Ronda (Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma, 2003. Photographs, illustrations, maps, notes. 128 pages. $14.95 paper.) Based on the exhibition of the same name, James...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
September 22, 2004... The Summer 2004 OHQ included an error on the Contributors page. We wrote that Dr. Stephen Dow Beckham received his undergraduate degree from the University of Portland. He actually received his B.A. from the University of Oregon. We regret the...

Notices.(Calendar)
September 22, 2004... Oregon Archives Week Officially proclaimed by Governor Ted Kulongoski, Oregon Archives Week (October 9-16) will be a celebration emphasizing the importance of historical documents and their preservation. The OHS Research Library, an...