Oregon Historical Quarterly articles from September 2008

Oregon Historical Quarterly archives from September 2008

Colonial power and indigenous justice: fur trade violence and its aftermath in Yaquina narrative.(Report)
September 22, 2008... BRITISH, SPANISH, RUSSIAN, AND AMERICAN colonial interests manifested in different ways across the North American West, and a growing body of scholarship addresses the effects of that empire expansion on Native communities. (1) Of the tribes...

Picturing progress: Carleton Watkins's 1867 stereoviews of the Columbia River Gorge.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... DURING THE SUMMER AND EARLY fall of 1867, San Francisco-based photographer Carleton E. Watkins traveled to Oregon to photograph settlements along the upper Willamette River and, more significantly, the Columbia River Gorge. It was a momentous...

The Oregon Geographic Names Board: one hundred years of toponymic nomenclature.
September 22, 2008... A RELATIVELY UNKNOWN COMPONENT of the Oregon Historical Society is celebrating its centenary this year. The Oregon Geographic Names Board, Oregon's official geographic names authority, was established with a stroke of the pen, when Governor...

Master of the Columbia: photography by Carleton E. Watkins at the Oregon Historical Society.(RESEARCH FILES)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... ON JUNE 23, 1916, CARLETON E. Watkins, the great landscape photographer of the American West, died blind and penniless in the Napa State Hospital for the Insane in northern California. Aside from a few small, mostly unfinished projects during...

The importance of memory and place: a narrative of Oregon Geographic Names with Lewis L. McArthur.(OREGON VOICES)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... GROWING UP IN THE SLEEPY Eastern Oregon town of Dayville, I knew my fair share of colorful place-names--Murderers Creek, Battle Creek, Mule, and Izee, for example. Murderers Creek held a particular fascination as it applies to a beautiful,...

The romance of John Reed and Louise Bryant: new documents clarify how they met.(OREGON VOICES)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... LOUISE BRYANT AND JOHN "JACK" Reed's romance--if not their fidelity --endured beyond their initial 1915 meeting in Portland, Oregon, to the end of their lives, when they each expressed loving thoughts for each other. Shortly before her death,...

Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... DRIVEN OUT: THE FORGOTTEN WAR AGAINST CHINESE AMERICANS by Jean Pfaelzer Random House, New York, 2007. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, index. 424 pages. $27.95 cloth. For over a century, the anti-Chinese movement was the...

Plowed Under: Agriculture and Environment in the Palouse.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... PLOWED UNDER: AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE PALOUSE by Andrew P. Duffin foreword by William Cronon University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2007. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 258 pages....

The Nez Perces in the Indian Territory: Nimiipuu Survival.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... THE NEZ PERCES IN THE INDIAN TERRITORY: NIMIIPUU SURVIVAL by J. Diane Pearson foreword by Patricia Penn Hilden University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2008. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 416 pages. $34.95...

Bicycling Beyond the Divide: Two Journeys into the West.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... BICYCLING BEYOND THE DIVIDE: TWO JOURNEYS INTO THE WEST by Daryl Farmer University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2008. Maps. 331 pages. $26.95 cloth. KAYAKING ALONE: NINE HUNDRED MILES FROM IDAHO'S MOUNTAINS TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN...

Forest of Time: A Century of Science at Wind River Experimental Forest.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... FOREST OF TIME: A CENTURY OF SCIENCE AT WIND RIVER EXPERIMENTAL FOREST by Margaret Herring and Sarah Greene foreword by William G. Robbins Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2007. Photographs, maps, notes, index. 200...

Frontier Publisher: A Romantic Review of George Palmer Putnam's Career at the Bend Bulletin, 1910-1914, with an Extended Epilogue.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... FRONTIER PUBLISHER: A ROMANTIC REVIEW OF GEORGE PALMER PUTNAM'S CAREER AT THE BEND BULLETIN, 1910-1914, WITH AN EXTENDED EPILOGUE by James L. Crowell Deschutes County Historical Society, Bend, Oregon, 2008. Notes, bibliography,...

Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... SEIZING DESTINY: HOW AMERICA GREW FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA by Richard Kluger Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2007. Maps, notes, index. 667 pages. $35.00 cloth. It has been some time since an author has attempted such a sweeping...

Keepers of the Record: The History of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... KEEPERS OF THE RECORD: THE HISTORY OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY ARCHIVES by Deidre Simmons McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston, Canada, 2007. 384 pages. $80.00 cloth. Over the past several decades, Canadian and...

Finding Fire: A Personal History of Fire Lookouts in Lane County, Oregon.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... FINDING FIRE: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF FIRE LOOKOUTS IN LANE COUNTY, OREGON by Doug Newman foreword by Ken Metzler Lane County Historical Society & Museum, Eugene, 2007. Illustrations, maps, appendix. 134 pages. $18.95 paper....

The Trans-Mississippi West, 1804-1912: A Guide to Federal Records for the Territorial Period Part IV, A Guide to Records of the Dept. of the Interior for the Territorial Period, Section 3, Records of the General Land Office.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI WEST, 1804-1912: A GUIDE TO FEDERAL RECORDS FOR THE TERRITORIAL PERIOD PART IV, A GUIDE TO RECORDS OF THE DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR FOR THE TERRITORIAL PERIOD, SECTION 3, RECORDS OF THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE by Robert M....

Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... TRANSBORDER LIVES: INDIGENOUS OAXACANS IN MEXICO, CALIFORNIA, AND OREGON by Lynn Stephen Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, 2007. Illustrations, photographs, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. 397 pages. $23.95...

Road of Difficulties: Building the Lower Columbia River Highway.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... ROAD OF DIFFICULTIES: BUILDING THE LOWER COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHWAY by Michael Taylor Beaver Creek Press, Wallowa, Oregon, 2008. Photographs, maps, bibliography, index. 101 pages. $19.00 paper. In Road of Difficulties, author...

A Great Day to Fight Fire: Mann Gulch, 1949.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... A GREAT DAY TO FIGHT FIRE: MANN GULCH, 1949 by Mark Matthews University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2007. Illustrations, maps, notes. 280 pages. $24.95 cloth. Wildfire is as old as the convergence of dry tinder and lightning,...

John Kirk Townsend: Collector of Audubon's Western Birds and Mammals.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... JOHN KIRK TOWNSEND: COLLECTOR OF AUDUBON'S WESTERN BIRDS AND MAMMALS by Barbara Mearns and Richard Mearns Barbara and Richard Mearns, Scotland, 2007. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, index. 400 pages. $110.00 cloth....

Observing Our Peninsula's Past: The Age of Legends through 1931.(BOOK NOTES)(Observing Our Peninsula's Past: The 1930s through 1980)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Observing Our Peninsula's Past: The Age of Legends through 1931 by Nancy Lloyd The Chinook Observer, Long Beach, Wash., 2003. Photographs, maps, bibliography, index. 168 pages. $35.00 paper. Observing Our Peninsula's...

Redrawing Boundaries: Perspectives on Western American Art.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Redrawing Boundaries: Perspectives on Western American Art by Peter Hassrick University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 2007. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography. 80 pages. $22.50 paper. Six writers on art and...

Fort Clatsop: Rebuilding an Icon.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Fort Clatsop: Rebuilding an Icon by the Daily Astorian Ooligan Press, Portland, Oregon, 2007. Illustrations, photographs, maps. 128 pages. $14.95 paper. A collaboration between the Daily Astorian and Ooligan Press, Fort Clatsop:...

Bears: A Brief History.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Bears: A Brief History by Bernd Brunner translated by Lori Lantz Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 2007. Illustrations, bibliography, index. 272 pages. $25.00 cloth. Bears: A Brief History examines the history of...

Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920: Socialists, Populists, Miners, and Wobblies.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920: Socialists, Populists, Miners, and Wobblies by David Berman University Press of Colorado, Boulder, 2007. Photographs, tables, notes, index. 401 pages. $39.95 cloth. Berman draws on...

Oregon Historical Society Research Library: recently acquired and processed collections.(NOTICES)
September 22, 2008... Hillman Lueddemann papers open for research Most people involved in Oregon's public life in the mid twentieth century knew Hillman Lueddemann (1895-1990), a well-regarded leader in Portland's business and civic enterprises. Known...

Recorded history meets geologic history in the Columbia River Gorge.(OREGONSCAPE)(Brief article)
September 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] RECORDED HISTORY MEETS geologic history in the Columbia River Gorge. Millions of years ago, flows of volcanic basalt covered the landscape, then Ice Age floods carved a channel through the rock, allowing the river to...