Oregon Historical Quarterly articles from September 2007

Oregon Historical Quarterly archives from September 2007

"Neither head nor tail to the campaign": Esther Pohl Lovejoy and the Oregon woman suffrage victory of 1912.(State overview)
September 22, 2007... IN FEBRUARY 1913, Oregon suffragist, physician, and public health activist Esther Clayson Pohl Lovejoy summed up Oregon's 1912 woman suffrage victory for the Woman's Progressive Weekly: "It was pre-eminently a campaign of young women, impatient...

Portland to the rescue: the Rose City's response to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.(City overview)
September 22, 2007... APRIL 18 BEGAN IN PORTLAND much the same as other days. In copies of the Morning Oregonian that landed on front porches and lay stacked at newsstands, readers found stories about the state primary, in which candidates sought nominations for...

The winds of change: the decline of extractive industries and the rise of tourism in Hood River County, Oregon.
September 22, 2007... THE STORY OF THE CITY AND county of Hood River is the story of much of the rural Pacific Northwest. Originally built around the logging and horticulture industries, the town in the 1970s increasingly became identified with tourism and...

Salmon and the restoration of the Rogue.(PHOTO ESSAY)(Rogue River, Oregon)
September 22, 2007... FOR SEVEN YEARS, I PHOTOgraphed southern Oregon's Rogue River, intending to celebrate the waterway I had grown up on by creating a series of photographs that depict the river from its headwaters to the Pacific. I believe I boated all of the...

"Know who you are": regional identity in the teachings of Eva Castellanoz.(OREGON VOICES)(Biography)
September 22, 2007... ON A STEAMY JULY NIGHT IN 2005, I sit with Eva Castellanoz in back of her house in Nyssa, on the Oregon-Idaho state line. In white jeans and an embroidered floral top, she looks far younger than her sixty-six years. Black curls spliced with...

George Atkinson, Harvey Scott, and the Portland high school controversy of 1880.(OREGON VOICES)
September 22, 2007... WHEN PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL, Oregon's first high school, opened on April 26, 1869, it had forty-five students and was lauded by Harvey Scott in an Oregonian editorial. "We congratulate the citizens of Portland," he wrote, "as well as the...

At war over the Espionage Act in Portland: dueling perspectives from Kathleen O'Brennan and Agent William Bryon.(OREGON VOICES)
September 22, 2007... IN SEPTEMBER 1918, THE U.S. attorney for Portland, Bert Haney, wrote a report to the attorney general on Kathleen O'Brennan, an Irish nationalist on tour from Dublin who had recently arrived in the city. She was "engaged in spreading Irish...

Oregon Historical Society.(Organization overview)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Founded 1898 GUY A. RANDLES, president JOHN H. HERMAN, vice president JAMES T. RICHARDSON, secretary STEVE TERRY, treasurer DR. GEORGE L. VOGT, executive director DIRECTORS EX-OFFICIO HON. TED KULONGOSKI,...

As Days Go By / Wiyaxayxt / Wiyaa Awn: Our History, Our Land, and Our People--The Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... AS DAYS GO BY / WIYAXAYXT / WIYAA AWN: OUR HISTORY, OUR LAND, AND OUR PEOPLE--THE CAYUSE, UMATILLA, AND WALLA WALLA edited by Jennifer Karson Tamastslikt Cultural Institute, Pendleton, Oregon Historical Society Press, Portland, and...

The Si'lailo Way: Indians, Salmon and the Law on the Columbia River.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... THE SI'LAILO WAY: INDIANS, SALMON AND THE LAW ON THE COLUMBIA RIVER by Joseph Dupris, Kathleen S. Hill, and William H. Rodgers, Jr. Carolina Academic Press, Durham, North Carolina, 2006. Illustrations, photographs, maps, tables, notes,...

Pitch Woman and Other Stories: Oral Traditions of Coquelle Thompson, Upper Coquille Athabaskan Indian.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... PITCH WOMAN AND OTHER STORIES: ORAL TRADITIONS OF COQUELLE THOMPSON, UPPER COQUILLE ATHABASKAN INDIAN by William Seaburg collected by Elizabeth D. Jacobs University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2007. Illustrations, photographs, maps,...

Soldier to Advocate: C.E.S. Wood's 1877 Legacy.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... SOLDIER TO ADVOCATE: C.E.S. WOOD'S 1877 LEGACY by George Venn Wordcraft of Oregon, La Grande, 2006. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography. 97 pages. $20.00 paper. Author George Venn must be a unique person with special...

Gus J. Solomon: Liberal Politics, Jews, and the Federal Courts.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... GUS J. SOLOMON: LIBERAL POLITICS, JEWS, AND THE FEDERAL COURTS by Harry H. Stein Oregon Historical Society Press, Portland, 2006. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 282 pages. $22.00 paper. Harry Stein has crafted...

The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... THE OPIUM DEBATE AND CHINESE EXCLUSION LAWS IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN WEST by Diana Ahmad University of Nevada Press, Reno and Las Vegas, 2007. Notes, bibliography, index. 132 pages. $34.95 cloth. As its title clearly...

Reading Portland: The City in Prose.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... READING PORTLAND: THE CITY IN PROSE edited by John Trombold and Peter Donahue Oregon Historical Society Press, Portland, and University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2006. Photographs, bibliography. 570 pages. $26.95 paper. The...

Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE ENVIRONMENT: PERSPECTIVES ON THE ECOLOGICAL INDIAN by Michael E. Harkin and David Rich Lewis University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2007. Maps, notes, index. 367 pages. $24.95 paper. The editors conceived...

Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and Manifest Destiny.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... NATIVE AMERICA, DISCOVERED AND CONQUERED: THOMAS JEFFERSON, LEWIS AND CLARK, AND MANIFEST DESTINY by Robert J. Miller Praeger Publishers, Westport, Connecticut, 2006. Notes, bibliography, index. 240 pages. $49.95 cloth. Robert J. Miller...

Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... BROKERS OF CULTURE: ITALIAN JESUITS IN THE AMERICAN WEST, 1848-1919 by Gerald McKevitt Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, California, 2006. Photographs, notes, index. 448 pages. $60.00 cloth. Post-Napoleonic Europe seethed with...

The Fight of the Salmon People: Blending Tribal Tradition with Modern Science to Save Sacred Fish.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... THE FIGHT OF THE SALMON PEOPLE: BLENDING TRIBAL TRADITION WITH MODERN SCIENCE TO SAVE SACRED FISH by Douglas W. Dompier Xlibris Corporation, Philadelphia, 2004. Maps, notes, glossary. 351 pages. $32.99 cloth, $22.99 paper. Among fish...

Saving Oregon's Golden Goose: Political Drama on the O&C Lands.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... SAVING OREGON'S GOLDEN GOOSE: POLITICAL DRAMA ON THE O&C LANDS arranged and edited by Joella Werlin Inkwater Press, Portland, Oregon, 2006. Photographs. 142 pages. $14.95 paper. The historian's axiom that historical research and writing can...

Thomas Moran's West: Chromolithography, High Art, and Popular Taste.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... THOMAS MORAN'S WEST: CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY, HIGH ART, AND POPULAR TASTE by Joni L. Kinsey University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2006. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 271 pages. $45.00 cloth. Late in 1876, the year of...

Letters.(Oregon Nurses Association)('The Labor of Caring: A History of the Oregon Nurses Association' article)(Letter to the editor)
September 22, 2007... To the Editor: Professor Patricia Schechter's "The Labor of Caring: A History of the Oregon Nurses Association" in the Spring 2007 issue concludes with a very embarrassing error that should not be left uncorrected. The last sentence quotes...

Carleton E. Watkins photographs.(OHS RESEARCH LIBRARY: recently acquired and processed collections)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... The Carleton E. Watkins photographs (Org. Lot 93) comprise one of the Oregon Historical Society's prized photograph collections. Considered to be one of the finest photographers of the nineteenth-century American West, Watkins (1829-1926)...

Multnomah County wedding album project records, 2004-2005.(OHS RESEARCH LIBRARY: recently acquired and processed collections)
September 22, 2007... Beginning March 2, 2004, Multnomah County, Oregon (which includes the city of Portland), began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. County Chair Diane Linn made the decision after concluding that state law violated the Oregon...

OrgonScape.(dog Bobbie)(Brief article)(Photograph)
September 22, 2007... Bobbie, the collie dog pictured here, accompanied his family on a trip from their home in Silverton, Oregon, to Walcott, Indiana, in August 1923. During the trip, Bobbie's owner, George Brazier, took him along when he went to fill the gas tank...