Many Faces: An Anthology of Oregon Autobiography
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Edited by Stephen Dow Beckham
1993. 7 x 10 inches. 320 pages.
ISBN 0-87071-371-X Hardcover, $35.95.
ISBN 0-87071-372-8 Paperback, $21.95.
Illustrated with art by Oregon artists
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Introduction
Art Work
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This volume tells, in their own words, the stories of Oregonians from the prominent to the plain.
Here we are given glimpses into lives as different as those of Lydia Taylor, a prostitute; William O. Douglas,
Supreme Court Justice; and J.A. Wisdom, whose father (and owner) sold him into slavery for $400. Here are
Barry Lopez, writing about his attempts to wrestle meaning from the river near his home; John Reed, about
to turn thirty; Bethenia Owens-Adair, one of Oregon's first women doctors; and Annie Miner Peterson, who
dictated many hours of Native American oral literature to anthropologists in the 1930's.
"Terrible times when I'm baby. Rogue River Injun war that time,' recalled an aged resident of the Siletz Reservation in 1912. This man's voice from the past and others--recorded on wax cylinders by linguists and anthropologists--tell the other side of the deeds of the Oregon pioneers...Oregon gold miners, ranchers, school teachers, salmon cannery workers, loggers, and others also penned their life stories. These first-person accounts are real, if sometimes self-serving; they are the fabric of history and the human experience. Oregon autobiographies speak to the diversity of life and labor and human response to a land with many faces." Stephen Dow Beckham
About The Editor
Stephen Dow Beckham is a professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Lewis and Clark College, Portland. His training, teaching, research, and writing are in the history of the American West and the Pacific Northwest. He has served as an expert witness in federal court on Indian land claims, fishing rights, and hydropower issues, and is the author of a six-part television series on Oregon Indians. His books include
Requiem for a People: The Rogue Indians and the Frontiersmen(1996), Tall Tales from Rogue River (1974), The Indians of Western Oregon (1977), and Land of the Umpqua (1986).
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