Northwest History
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Above the Clearwater: Living on Stolen Land By Bette Lynch Husted, 2004. ISBN 0-87071-007-9. Paperback, $18.95. "Like the river of its name, Bette Husted's book runs with clarity and passion. Complex, harsh, and tender, never taking the easy way out, this memoir is beautiful in its honesty. I never read anything truer to the Western land and people." --Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813 By Alexander Ross, 2000. Introduction by William G. Robbins. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-528-3. Paperback, $16.95. Adventures of the First Settlers is a vivid account of the John Jacob Astors expedition and its stuggles to establish a successful trading venture. |
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American Sportsmen and the Origins of Conservation: Third Edition, Revised and Expanded By John F. Reiger, 2000. ISBN 0-87071-487-2. Paperback, $24.95. This new edition continues to be essential reading for all concerned with how earlier Americans regarded the land, demonstrating even to those who oppose hunting that they share with sportmen and sportswomen an awareness and appreciation of our fragil environment. |
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Atlas of the Pacific Northwest Edited by Philip Jackson and A. Jon Kimerling. 9th edition, 2003. ISBN 0-87071-562-3. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN 0-87071-560-7. Paperback, $24.95. A thoroughly revised and updated edition of the standard reference book on Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. In addition to over 200 insightful maps, graphs, and tables plus 18 essays on regional topics. |
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Badger and Coyote Were Neighbors: Melville Jacobs on Northwest Indian Myths and Tales Edited by William R. Seaburg and Pamela T. Amoss, 2000. Northwest Reader. ISBN 0-87071-473-2. Paperback, $22.95. A selection of Jacobs's articles and essays on Northwest Indian oral traditions introduce his theory and method of folklore research. |
| Botanical Exploration of the Trans-Mississippi West By Susan D. McKelvey. Introduction by Stephen Dow Beckham, 1991. Northwest Reprints series. ISBN 0-87071-513-5. Hardcover, $99.95. A classic and fascinating history of botanical explorers in the West, ranging from the well known--such as Lewis and Clark, Menzies, and Douglas--to the obscure. |
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Bradford Washburn: A Life of Exploration By Michael Sfraga, 2004. ISBN 0-87071-010-9. Paperback, $24.95. From Denali to Mt. Everest, from the Grand Canyon to the Alps, mountaineering legend Bradford Washburn has explored, climbed, mapped, and photographed some of the most beautiful and challenging landscapes on Earth. Sfraga's engaging biography is the first book to detail Washburn's multifaceted life and achievements. |
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Chiefs and Chief Traders: Indian Relations
at Fort Nez Perces, 1818-1855 Volume 1 By Theodore Stern, 1993. ISBN 0-87071-368-X. Hardcover, $35.95. A ground breaking study of the early interactions between fur traders and Columbia River Indians, exploring the complex trade network between the two groups. |
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Chiefs and Change in the Oregon Country: Indian Relations
at Fort Nez Perces, 1818-1855 Volume 2 By Theodore Stern, 1996. ISBN 0-87071-389-2. Hardcover, $39.95. In volume 2 of his remarkable study of relations between Indians and whites, Stern focuses on the changes the Plateau Indians underwent as increasing numbers of whites entered their world. |
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Cohassett Beach Chronicles: World War II in
the Pacific Northwest Edited by Kathy Hogan. Klancy de Nevers and Lucy Hart, 1995. ISBN 0-87071-398-1. Paperback, $19.95. This collection of newspaper columns from the World War II home front captures America's wartime mood |
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Crater Lake National Park: A History By Rick Harmon 2002. ISBN 0-87071-537-2. Paperback, $19.95. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Crater Lake National Park in May 2002, historian Rick Harmon has written the first comprehensive history of the park and the people and events that created and shaped it. |
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Dispatches and Dictators: Ralph Barnes for the Herald Tribune By Barbara S. Mahoney 2002. ISBN 0-87071-546-1. Hardcover, $24.95. Dispatches and Dictators uncovers the fascinating story of Ralph Barnes, the New York Herald Tribune's European correspondent, who served in Paris, Rome, Moscow, Berlin, and London throughout the 1930s. Barnes has been praised by colleagues and competitors alike as one of the best reporters of that pivotal era. But since his death in the 1940 crash of a British bomber in Yugoslavia, he has been largely forgotten. |
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An Editor for Oregon: Charles A. Sprague and the Politics of Change By Floyd J. McKay, 1998. ISBN 0-87071-523-2. Hardcover, $24.95. A biography of the esteemed Oregon governor and newspaper editor. |
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Elegant Arches, Soaring Spans: C.B. McCullough, Oregon's Master Bridge Builder By Robert W. Hadlow, 2001. ISBN 0-87071-534-8. Paperback, $24.95. Illustrated with historic photographs and drawings, Robert Hadlow's definitive and highly readable biography will delight bridge buffs and engineering enthusiasts everywhere. It will also be of great interest to Oregon coast visitors and residents, and to students of transportation and technology history. |
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Empty Nets: Indians, Dams, and the Columbia Second Edition By Roberta Ulrich, 2007. Culture and Environment in the Pacific West. ISBN 978-0-87071-188-6. Paperback, $19.95. Empty Nets is a disturbing history of broken promises and justice delayed. It chronicles the Columbia River Indians' fight to maintain their livelihood and culture in the face of an indifferent federal bureaucracy and hostile state governments. |
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Eva Emery Dye: Romance with the West By Sheri Bartlett Browne, 2004. ISBN 0-87071-008-7. Paperback, $24.95. Early 20th-century novelist Eva Emery Dye was one of the first writers to popularize (and romanticize) the Lewis and Clark Expedition and introduce a new American heroine, Sacagawea. This first biography of Dye chronicles the life of a writer whose books on the conquest of the American West helped to shape an entire generation?s understanding of American history and Manifest Destiny. |
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Exploring Oregon's Historic Courthouses By Kathleen M. Wiederhold, 1998. ISBN 0-87071-436-8. Paperback, $17.95. This first guide to Oregon's historic courthouses combines fascinating local histories with valuable information on the state's architectural history. |
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Exploring Oregon's Historic House Museums By Kathleen M. Wiederhold, 2000. ISBN 0-87071-483-x. Paperback, $19.95. Each of the historic house museums featured is unique in its place and time. The book covers houses built from 1841 to 1936. |
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Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest By Chris Maser, 2001. ISBN 0-87071-529-1. Paperback, $19.95. In this classic work of ecology, Chris Maser traces the growth of an ancient forest in Oregon's Cascade Mountains from its fiery birth in the year 987 to the present. A unique "biography" of an ecosystem, Forest Primeval portrays a diverse fabric of plants, animals, and microorganisms working in unison. |
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Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics, and Environment in Alaska By Stephen Haycox, 2002. Culture and Environment in the Pacific West. ISBN 0-87071-536-4. Paperback, $21.95. Frigid Embrace examines how the drive for natural resouce extraction has shaped Alaskans' understanding of nature and of Native peoples. It presents for a wide audience an illuminating portrait of modern colonialism |
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From Here We Speak: An Anthology of Oregon Poetry Edited by Primus St. John and Ingrid Wendt, 1993. Oregon Literature Series, volume 4. ISBN 0-87071-375-2. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN 0-87071-376-0. Paperback, $24.95. This historical anthology opens with Native American texts and ends with a broad sampling of Oregon's finest contemporary poets. |
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Frontier Doctor: Observations on Central Oregon
and the Changing West By Urling C. Coe. Introduction by Robert Bunting, 1996. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-520-8. Paperback, $15.95. Coe's autobiography details the experiences of a young physician in Bend in the early 20th century and presents a vivid social history of town and ranch life. |
| The Grains, or Passages in the Life of Ruth Rover with Occasional Pictures
of Oregon By Margaret Jewett Bailey. Edited by Evelyn Leasher and Robert J. Frank, 1986. ISBN 0-87071-346-9. Hardcover, $29.95. This autobiographical novel, first published in 1854, is generally considered the first novel written and published in the Pacific Northwest. Bailey provides a unique and provocative view of many prominent figures in early Oregon history. |
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The Great Northwest: The Search for Regional Identity Edited by William G. Robbins, 2001. ISBN 0-87071-492-9. Paperback, $21.95. In The Great Northwest, historian William G. Robbins gathers writings that explore the idea and reality of the Pacific Northwest from a surprising variety of viewpoints. Descriptions of and stories about such distinct places as Celilo Falls on the Columbia River, Alaska, interior British Columbia, and the reforested Tillamook Burn in Oregon show why the search for regional identity is a complex but ultimately rewarding endeavor. |
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Green Afternoons: Oregon Gardens to Visit By Amy Houchen. Illustrations by Lee Hascall, 1998. ISBN 0-87071-429-5. Paperback, $17.95. An informative and easy-to-use guide to more than six dozen gardens throughout Oregon and southwestern Washington. |
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A Guide to Oregon South Coast History: Traveling the Jedediah Smith Trail By Nathan Douthit, 1999. ISBN 0-87071-462-7. Paperback, $22.95. This indispensable guide and reference work opens with an overview of South Coast history, from prehistory to the present. This first section features in-depth looks at the region's native peoples, early exploration, white settlement, Indian-white warfare, the forest industry, transportation, and town development. |
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Harvest Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World and Agricultural Laborers in the American West, 1905-1930 By Greg Hall, 2001. ISBN 0-87071-532-1. Hardcover, $34.95. Harvest Wobblies personified most of the indelible features of IWW membership: they were the militant casual laborers of the American West, riding the rails, living in hobo jungles, preaching revolution, and facing repression and innovative strategies, impassioned speech, humor, and song. |
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Homesteader's Portfolio
By Alice Day Pratt. Introduction by Molly Gloss, 1993. Northwest Reprints series. ISBN 0-87071-516-X. Hardcover, $24.95. ISBN 0-87071-517-8. Paperback, $15.95. This powerful memoir presents a rare, complete record of a single woman homesteader in the Oregon high desert. |
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Illahe: The Story of Settlement in the Rogue River Canyon By Kay Atwood, 2002. ISBN 0-87071-539-9. Paperback, $18.95. This volume presents the story of settlement in the most isolated part of southern Oregon's rugged Rogue River Canyon, starting in the 1850s, based on the words of the people who lived there. |
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Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest Edited by Robert Boyd, 1999. ISBN 0-87071-459-7. Paperback, $34.95. Instead of discovering a land blanketed by dense forests, early explorers of the Pacific Northwest encountered a varied landscape of open woods, spacious meadows, and extensive prairies. Far from a pristine wilderness, much of the Northwest was actively managed and shaped by the hands of its Native American inhabitants. Their primary tool was fire. |
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Klamath Heartlands An Ecotrust Book By Edward C. Wolf, 2004. ISBN 0-9676364-3-4. Paperback, $19.95. Klamath Heartlands introduces the landmark plan by the Klamath Tribes of southern Oregon to restore the "remembered forest" of their former reservation. The Tribes' plan offers a vision of ecological and cultural restoration that will change the way we think about Western forests. |
| The Land Is Bright By Archie Binns. Introduction by Ann Ronald, 1992.Northwest Reprints series. ISBN 0-87071-508-9. Hardcover, $24.95. The engrossing story of a wagon train crossing to the Northwest, experienced through the eyes of a young woman. |
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Lewis and Clark Meet Oregon's Forests: Lessons in Dynamic Nature By Gail Wells and Dawn Anzinger, 2001. ISBN 0-87437-003-5. Paperback, $14.95. An excellent and engaging resource for anyone interested in the historic and future role of forests in the Northwest, the book includes more than one hundred photographs and maps many in full color. |
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Linus Pauling Scientist and Peace Maker: A Centenary Volume Edited by Clifford Mead and Thomas Hager, 2000. ISBN 0-87071-489-9. Hardcover, $35.00. Linus Pauling, the only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes, is widely recognized as one of the most brilliant scientists and most controversial individuals of the twentieth century. |
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Listening for Coyote: A Walk Across Oregon's Wilderness By William L. Sullivan, 2000. with a new preface by the author. ISBN 0-87071-526-7. Paperback, $18.95. William Sullivan's 1361-mile solo backpacking trek across Oregon's Wilderness Along the way he encountered blizzards, poisonous mushrooms, and marauding bears. |
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Many Faces: An Anthology of Oregon Autobiography Edited by Stephen Dow Beckham, 1993. Oregon Literature Series , volume 2. ISBN 0-87071-371-X. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN 0-87071-372-8. Paperback, $24.95. Here forty Oregonians, from the prominent to the plain, tell their own stories. |
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Moontrap By Don Berry, 2004. ISBN 0-87071-039-7. Paperback, $18.95. Following Trask in Don Berry's trilogy of novels set in the Oregon Territory, Moontrap, winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for best historical novel, is a book of remarkable beauty and power about a man caught between his vivid past and an uncertain future. |
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A Municipal Mother: Portland's Lola Greene Baldwin, America's First Policewoman By Gloria E. Myers, 1995. ISBN 0-87071-386-8. Hardcover, $29.95. This fascinating story, set in Portland, Oregon, evokes the flavor of urban life in ragtime America, when police power increasingly became the watchdog of social morality. |
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Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River By John Kirk Townsend, Introduction and annotation by George A. Jobanek, 1999. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-525-9. Paperback, $17.95. This classic account of western exploration and scientific discovery chronicles the journey of the first trained naturalist to cross the American continent. |
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Nature's Justice: Writings of William O. Douglas Edited by James M. O'Fallon, 2000. Northwest Reader. ISBN 0-87071-482-1. Hardcover, $35.00. As the longest serving Justice in the History of the U.S. Supreme Court, William O. Douglas was known for writing a host of dissenting opinions. He was also a prolific writer off the bench, a man whose work was as much concerned with nature as with law. |
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The Nehalem Tillamook By Elizabeth D. Jacobs, Edited by William Seaburg, 2003. ISBN 0-87071-556-9. Paperback, $21.95. The first book-length ethnography of any Western Oregon native group, The Nehalem Tillamook fills an important gap in what was previously known about southern Northwest Coast native cultures. |
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New Era: Reflections on the Human and Natural History of Central Oregon By Jarold Ramsey, 2003. ISBN 0-87071-557-7. Paperback, $14.95. New Era is a graceful and literate collection of personal essays on the human and natural history of the Oregon high desert. |
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The Northwest Salmon Crisis: A Documentary History Edited by Joseph Cone and Sandy Ridlington, 1999. ISBN 0-87071-390-6. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN 0-87071-472-4. Paperback, $24.95. In this unique documentary record of the roots of the region's most divisive issue, knowledgeable observers of salmon history comment on documents they believe most clearly revealed the causes and early warning signs of today's crisis. |
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Oregon Coastal Access Guide By Kenn Oberrecht, 2001. ISBN 0-87071-491-0. Paperback, $19.95. The new Oregon Coastal Access Guide is an essential handbook for anyone exploring the nearly four hundred miles of coastline that lie between the Columbia River and the California border. |
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Oregon's Promise: An Interpretive History By David Peterson del Mar, 2003. ISBN 0-87071-558-5. Paperback, $19.95. A concise and compelling general history that explores familiar and neglected people and movements in the state's history, while challenging readers to view Oregon's past, present, and future in a new way. |
| Oregon: There and Back in 1877 By Wallis Nash. Edited by J. Kenneth Munford, 1976. ISBN 0-87071-077-X. Hardcover, $19.95. Nash, a prominent London attorney, came to Oregon in 1877 to investigate possibilities for railroad building and land development. When he returned to England, he wrote this book, here reprinted with a foreword and notes. |
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The Oregon Weather Book: A State of Extremes By George H. Taylor and Raymond R. Hatton, 1999. ISBN 0-87071-467-8. Paperback, $19.95. Oregonians are nuts for weather. They're hungry for weather news, anecdotes, statistics, trivia, and, of course, forecasts. The Oregon Weather Book will whet this insatiable appetite. |
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Pacific Northwest Women, 1815-1925: Lives,
Memories, and Writings By Jean M. Ward and Elaine A. Maveety, 1997. ISBN 0-87071-387-6. Hardcover, $34.95. ISBN 0-87071-393-0. Paperback, $21.95. This collection of writings by 30 women, some presented for the first time to a contemporary audience, challenges many myths about women who lived, worked, and wrote in the West. |
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Planning a New West: The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area By Carl Abbott, Sy Adler, and Margery Post Abbot, 1997. Culture and Environment in the Pacific West. ISBN 0-87071-392-2. Hardcover, $29.95. The inaugural volume in the "Culture and Environment in the Pacific West" series. |
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Planning the Oregon Way: A Twenty-Year Evaluation Edited by Carl Abbott, Deborah Howe, and Sy Adler, 1994. ISBN 0-87071-381-7. Hardcover, $29.95. Examines the Oregon land-use system, describes its strengths and weaknesses, and explores ways to improve and refine it. |
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Portland: People, Politics, and Power, 1851-2001 By Jewel Lansing, 2003. ISBN 0-87071-559-3. Hardcover, $29.95. This is the definitive book on Portland's political, social, and cultural history, beginning in 1845 when a 16-lot townsite was laid out on the bank of the Willamette River and continuing through April 2001, the 150th anniversary of Portland city government. |
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Reach of Tide, Ring of History: A Columbia River Voyage By Sam McKinney, with a new introduction by Robin Cody, 2000. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-484-8. Paperback, $14.95. Aboard a small handmade boat, Sam McKinney set out to rediscover the Columbia River of his youth. The story of his voyage offers an intimate history of the great river and of the people who have lived and worked along its shores. |
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Redefining the Past: Essays in Diplomatic History in Honor of
William Appleman Williams Edited by Lloyd Gardner, 1986. ISBN 0-87071-348-5. Hardcover, $34.95. |
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Requiem for a People: The Rogue Indians and the Frontiersmen By Stephen Dow Beckham, 1996. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-521-6. Paperback, $16.95. This classic history of the Rogue River Indian wars, now in paper with a new introduction by the author. |
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A Richer Harvest: The Literature of Work in the Pacific Northwest Edited by Craig Wollner and W. Tracy Dillon, 1999. ISBN 0-87071-465-1. Paperback, $19.95. Northwest Reader. This fascinating collection of writings taps a rich vein of Northwest literature. From pioneer journals to union tracts and cyberpunk fiction, the selections gathered here reveal the lives of the Northwest's working people and insights into the nature of work in the region. |
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River of Life, Channel of Death By Keith C. Petersen, 2001. ISBN 0-87071-496-1. Paperback, $24.95. In the words of the author, "this book is the story of how people came to settle this region and demand river alterations--and how some eventually came to oppose them. . . . It is also the chronicle, yet unfolding, of the conflict between native wildlife and dams. In microcosm it is, in many ways, the story of the American West." |
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River Pigs and Cayuses: Oral Histories from the Pacific Northwest By Ron Strickland, 2001. ISBN 0-87071-494-5. Paperback, $17.95. In River Pigs and Cayuses, Ron Strickland gathers stories from old-timers in Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Brimming with lively accounts both humorous and poignant, the book illuminates cadences and traditions that Strickland hopes will survive long after the storytellers are gone. |
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Salmon Fishers of the Columbia By Courtland L. Smith, 1979. ISBN 0-87071-313-2. Hardcover, $21.95. A comprehensive historical, social, and economic picture of the Columbia River salmon industry which noted environmental historian Richard White has described as "the best introduction to Columbia River salmon fishing." |
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The Sandal and the Cave: The Indians of Oregon By Luther S. Cressman, 1981. ISBN 0-87071-078-8. Paperback, $9.95. A brief, lucid, and comprehensive introduction to the prehistory of Oregon Indians written by the man whose 1938 discovery of a 9,000-year-old sandal in Fort Rock Cave revolutionized accepted theories of western prehistory. |
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Sandy: The Sandhill Crane Who Joined Our Family By Dayton O. Hyde , with a new introduction by Gretel Ehrlich, 2000. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-486-4. Paperback, $17.95. On a wilderness ranch in southern Oregon nearly half a century ago, Dayton Hyde dove into a rushing river to rescue the threatened nest of a sandhill crane. The egg saved from that nest hatched into a bird, and also into an amazing story. |
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The Stories We Tell: An Anthology of Oregon Folk Literature Edited by Suzi Jones and Jarold Ramsey, 1994. Oregon Literature Series, volume 5. ISBN 0-87071-379-5. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN 0-87071-380-9. Paperback, $24.95. These traditional stories, songs, tales, and sayings--from Native American creation myths to spotted owl jokes--reveal the richness of Oregon's oral traditions. |
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Talking on Paper: An Anthology of Oregon Letters and Diaries Edited by Shannon Applegate and Terence O'Donnell, 1994. Oregon Literature Series, volume 6. ISBN 0-87071-377-9. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN 0-87071-378-7. Paperback, $24.95. These writings by ordinary Oregonians reveal a personal side of Oregon history, filled with the concrete details of everyday life. |
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The Tillamook: A Created Forest Comes of Age, 2nd Edition By Gail Wells, 2004. Culture and Environment in the Pacific West. ISBN 0-87071-006-0. Paperback, $19.95. Debates over the fate of ancient forests have been commonplace in the Pacific West for decades. The Tillamook takes up the question of younger forests, exploring the creation of a managed forest and what its story reveals about the historic and future role of second-growth forests. |
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To Build a Ship By Don Berry, 2004. ISBN 0-87071-040-0. Paperback, $17.95. To Build a Ship tells the story of a handful of settlers who take up land in the fertile Tillamook Bay Valley in the early 1850s-defiant dreamers battling the wilderness. With impenetrable mountains at their backs and the open sea as their sole road to trade, they are suddenly isolated from the outside world when the only captain willing to enter their harbor dies. With the survival of their new settlement threatened, they decide to build their own schooner. |
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Trask By Don Berry, 2004. ISBN 0-87071-023-0. Paperback, $18.95. Set in 1848 on the wild edge of the continent, in the rain forests and rugged headlands of the Oregon coast, Trask follows a mountain man's quest for new opportunities and new land to settle. The OSU Press is proud to reissue Berry's celebrated first book, considered one of the finest historical novels of the American West. |
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Two Wheels North: Bicycling the West Coast in 1909 By Evelyn McDaniel Gibb, 2000. ISBN 0-87071-485-6. Paperback, $15.95. In 1909, Vic McDaniel and Ray Francisco, just out of high school, set out from Santa Rosa, California, on second-hand bikes, bound for the great Alaska-Yukon-Pacifc Exposition in Seattle. |
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Uncertain Encounters: Indians and Whites at Peace and War in Southern Oregon, 1820s-1860s By Nathan Douthit, 2002. ISBN 0-87071-549-6. Paperback, $22.95. Uncertain Encounters makes a major contribution to the study of Indian-white relations in the Pacific Northwest by providing a comprehensive view of relations in southern Oregon over a fifty-year period beginning in the fur-trade era and ending with the Rogue River War of 1855-1856 and its aftermath. |
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The Unforgiving Coast: Maritime Disasters of the Pacific Northwest By David H. Grover, 2002. ISBN 0-87071-541-0. Paperback, $19.95. The Unforgiving Coast offers a penetrating look into each of these nine catastrophes, focusing on the unique, the inexplicable, the poignant, the heroic, and the tragic elements that make them remarkable. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Grover tries to explain not just what happened in each disaster, but how and why it happened. The stories vary considerably-some are mysteries, some are adventure thrillers, and some defy categorization. |
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Varieties of Hope: An Anthology of Oregon Prose Edited by Gordon B. Dodds, 1993. Oregon Literature Series, volume 3. ISBN 0-87071-373-6. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN 0-87071-374-4. Paperback, $24.95. This wide-ranging anthology of speeches, essays, and works of biography, history, and journalism, profiles the Oregon experience. |
| The Viewless Winds By Murray Morgan. Introduction by Harold Simonson, 1990. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-504-6. Hardcover, $24.95. ISBN 0-87071-505-4. Paperback, $13.95. This dark, fascinating novel is based on the unsolved murder of a union leader's wife in Aberdeen, Washington. |
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Walking the Beach to Bellingham By Harvey Manning, 2002. ISBN 0-87071-547-X. Paperback, $19.95. This unique book by noted writer, environmental activist, and Pacific Northwest native Harvey Manning describes a memorable walk along the shoreline from Seattle to Bellingham--a 150-mile trek on which Manning covered nearly 3,000 foot-miles over a two-year period of walking routes in the lowlands and foothills of the Puget Basin. |
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Water in the West: A High Country News Reader By Char Miller, 2000. ISBN 0-87071-480-5. Paperback, $29.95. A lively primer on the region's most precious and scarce resource. This volume collects the best reporting on the subject. |
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Whistlepunks and Geoducks: Oral Histories from the Pacific Northwest By Ron Strickland, 2001. ISBN 0-87071-495-3. Paperback, $19.95. In searching for people whose stories would add up to a portrait of the Evergreen State, Strickland discovered a region as alive with folklore as it is with natural beauty. The author provides a helpful glossary to local terms and adds an index to names, places and livelihoods. |
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Wildmen, Wobblies, and Whistle Punks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest Edited by Brian Booth, 1994. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-383-3. Paperback, $15.95. Here the best of Holbrook's colorful and irreverent accounts of the region's history, from forgotten scandals and murders to stories of forest fires and floods and tales of loggers and life in the logging camps. |
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Wood Works: The Life and Writings of Charles Erskine Scott Wood Edited by Edwin Bingham and Tim Barnes, 1997. ISBN 0-87071-397-3. Hardcover, $29.95. This long-awaited first anthology of C. E. S. Wood's writings includes nearly eighty selections, an extensive biographical introduction, and historic photographs. |
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The World Begins Here: An Anthology of Oregon Short Fiction Edited by Glen A. Love, 1993. Oregon Literature Series, volume 1. ISBN 0-87071-369-8. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN 0-87071-370-1. Paperback, $24.95. Thirty-three Oregon stories ranging from a Nez Perce tale to stories by many contemporary writers including Ursula Le Guin, Craig Lesley, Barry Lopez, and Ken Kesey. |
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Yours for Liberty: Selections from Abigail Scott Duniway's Suffrage Newspaper By Jean M. Ward and Elaine A. Maveety, 2000. ISBN 0-87071-474-0 Paperback, $21.95. Yours for Liberty, the first published volume of Duniway's writings from The New Northwest, provides a vivid portrait of this pioneering suffragist and her work. |
