OSU Press at Oregon State University

Northwest Literature

	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
	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, $17.95. Adventures of the First Settlers is a vivid account of the John Jacob Astors expedition and its stuggles to establish a successful trading venture.
	American Nature Writing 1999 Selected by John A. Murray, 1999. ISBN 0-87071-550-X. Paperback, $15.95. The eighteen selections gathered here show the rich variety of human responses to natural places. That a Civil War battlefield and an Arizona prison cell are the settings for two essays demonstrates the surprising vitality of this literature of place.
	American Nature Writing 2000: A Celebration of Women Writers Selected by John A. Murray, 2000. ISBN 0-87071-551-8. Paperback, $17.95. The sixteen contributors to the book include three generations of women writers, both new and distinguished voices. The book encompasses a range of themes: from the solace of wild places to the ferocity of nature, from the importance of urban green spaces to the need to protect the last of our wilderness areas.
	American Nature Writing 2001 Selected by John A. Murray, 2001. ISBN 087071-552-6. Paperback $17.95. The eighth edition of this acclaimed series offers a showcase for contemporary nature writing at the start of the millennium. With subjects as diverse as the far-flung, locations they describe, the twenty writers featured here share one defining objective: to show us that we need only look outdoors to find something worthy of our attention.
	The Arbutus/Madrone Files By Laurie Ricou, 2002. ISBN 0-87071-543-7. Paperback, $21.95. The Arbutus/Madrone Files is a wide-ranging, deeply felt meditation on the land, people, and literature of the U.S. and Canadian Pacific Northwest, gathered into twelve thematic essays or "files," including the Island File, Salmon File, Woodswords File, Sasquatch File, and, of course, the Rain File.
	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.
	Beyond the Garden Gate By Sophus K. Winther. Introduction by Barbara H. Meldrum. 1991. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-510-0. Hardcover, $24.95. ISBN 0-87071-511-9. Paperback, $13.95. A classic story of a young man's coming of age, set in Eugene and the Willamette Valley in the early part of this century.
	The Collected Poems of Hazel Hall Edited by John Witte, 2000. ISBN 0-87071-478-3 Hardcover, $22.95. Hall's three books, published to critical acclaim in the 1920's, are collected here for the first time.
	Contemporary Northwest Writing: A Collection of Poetry and Fiction Edited by Roy Carlson, 1979. ISBN 0-87071-324-8. Hardcover, $24.95. ISBN 0-87071-323-X. Paperback, $15.95.
	Driftwood Valley: A Woman Naturalist in the Northern Wilderness By Theodora C. Stanwell-Fletcher, Introduction by Wendell Berry. Afterword by Rhoda M. Love, 1999. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-524-0. Paperback, $18.95. A pioneering woman naturalist recounts a magnificent story of adventure and survival in the wilds of northern British Columbia.
	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.
	The Fiction of Bernard Malamud Edited by Richard Astro and Jackson J. Benson, 1977. ISBN 0-87071-446-5. Hardcover, $21.95. A collection of papers on the famous novelist, who spent more than a decade teaching at OSU.
	Fishing the Northwest: An Angler's Reader Edited by Glen Love, 2000. Northwest Reader. ISBN 0-87071-481-3. Hardcover, $28.95. A collection of stories and essays by twenty-two of the best angling writers in the region. The book ranges from Alaska to the Rogue River in southern Oregon, and the Olympic Mountains and Vancouver Island to the Continental Divide in Montana.
	Fool's Hill By John Quick, 1995. ISBN 0-87071-385-X. Hardcover, $24.95. ISBN 0-87071-399-X. Paperback, $15.95. John Quick is Garrison Keillor with an attitude and Fool's Hill is his quirky childhood autobiography, set on the southern Oregon coast.
	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.
	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.

	Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses By Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2003. ISBN 0-87071-499-6. Paperback, $17.95. In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings. Kimmerer explains the biology of mosses clearly and artfully, while at the same time reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us.
	A Gathering of Stones: Journeys to the Edges of a Changing World By Carol Ann Bassett, 2002. ISBN 0-87071-545-3. Paperback, $12.95. A Gathering of Stones is a fascinating collection of personal narratives from the Canadian sub-arctic to southern Chile, and from Botswana to Nepal. Carol Ann Bassett's vivid prose combines elements of natural history, cultural anthropology, and travel literature as she takes the readers on an intimate journey into the communites, ceremonies, and lives of traditional peoples struggling to survive in the face of rapid change.
	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.
	Happy Valley By Anne Shannon Monroe. Introduction by Karen Blair, 1991. Northwest Reprints series. ISBN 0-87071-506-2. Hardcover, $24.95. ISBN 0-87071-507-0. Paperback, $13.95. A stylishly written novel of pioneer life in Harney County, Oregon.
	Hive of Dreams: Contemporary Science Fiction from the Pacific Northwest Edited by Grace L. Dillon, 2003. Northwest Reader series. ISBN 0-87071-555-0. Paperback, $19.95. Hive of Dreams brings together for the first time the work of a dozen internationally prominent science fiction writers who make their home in the Pacific Northwest.
	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.
	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.
	The Left Hand of Eden: Meditations on Nature and Human Nature Literary Arts Winner Oregon Book Award By William Ashworth, 1999. ISBN 0-87071-460-0. Paperback, $19.95. This important contribution to the growing debate over the protection of wilderness areas comes from an unusual perspective--that of an environmentalist arguing against preservation.
	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.
	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.
	Marking the Magic Circle By George Venn, 1987. ISBN 0-87071-352-3. Hardcover, $24.95. ISBN 0-87071-353-1. Paperback, $15.95. Poetry, fiction, and essays. An important contribution to the literature of place and the increasingly notable literature of the Pacific Northwest by one of the region's noted writers and literary scholars.
	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.
	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.

	Nehalem Tillamook Tales By Clara Pearson, and Elizabeth Derr Jacobs. Introduction by Jarold Ramsey, 1990. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-502-X. Hardcover, $29.95. ISBN 0-87071-503-8. Paperback, $19.95. One of the most accessible and readable collections of traditional Native literature.
	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.
	North Bank: Claiming a Place on the Rogue By Robin Carey, 1998. ISBN 0-87071-448-1. Hardcover, $19.95. A rich and poignant look at fly fishing, favorite rivers, and the power of familiar landscapes.
	Northwest Reprint Series. Robert J. Frank, series editor.
	Now Go Home: Wilderness, Belonging, and the Crosscut Saw By Ana Maria Spagna, 2004. ISBN 0-87071-009-5. Paperback, $17.95. Now Go Home tells the story of how a quintessential California girl ended up earning her living in the Pacific Northwest with a crosscut saw. With candor, wit, and hard-earned wisdom, Spagna reflects on the journey that took her from a childhood in the suburbs of LA to a trail crew in the North Cascades.
	On the Highest Hill By Roderick Haig-Brown. Introduction by Laurence Ricou, 1994 Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-518-6. Hardcover, $27.95. ISBN 0-87071-519-4. Paperback, $15.95. The complex story of a shy young man whose life and fate are ruled by his love for a woman and a place--the forests of Vancouver Island.
	Oregon Detour By Nard Jones. Introduction by George Venn, 1990. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-500-3. Hardcover, $24.95. ISBN 0-87071-501-1. Paperback, $13.95. This 1930 novel's depiction of Weston--thinly disguised as "Creston"--shocked many residents of the small eastern Oregon wheat town and created a controversy that still lingers today.
	Oregon Literature Series. George Venn, general editor. Ulrich Hardt, managing editor.
	Pacific Northwest Women, 1815-1925: Lives, Memories, and Writings By Jean M. Ward and Elaine A. Maveety, 1997. 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.
	Paradise Wild: Reimagining American Nature By David Oates, 2003. ISBN 0-87071-553-4. Paperback, $21.95. In this lively, genre-hopping book, Oates tells stories, explores the literature of nature, and analyzes how the misapplied myth of Eden has mired Americans in a hopeless "Paradise Lost" mentality that belies the true, ever-present wildness in our lives. Paradise Wild will move and provoke readers, at the same time that it contributes to the ongoing debate over the meanings of "nature" and "wilderness."
	Peace at Heart: An Oregon Country Life By Barbara Drake, 1998. ISBN 0-87071-455-4. Paperback, $15.95. Reflection on a life turned to the land, set on a small farm in Western Oregon.
	A Place for Wayfaring: The Poetry and Prose of Gary Snyder By Patrick D. Murphy, 2000. ISBN 0-87071-479-1. Paperback, $21.95. A Place for Wayfaring offers the only comprehensive guide to one of the most influential cultural and literary voices of the twentieth century.
	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.
	A Richer Harvest: The Literature of Work in the Pacific Northwest Edited by Craig Wollner and W. Tracy Dillon, 1999. Northwest Reader. ISBN 0-87071-465-1. Paperback, $19.95. 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.
	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.
	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.
	Spirit of the Siskiyous: The Journals of a Mountain Naturalist By Mary Paetzel. Edited by Jacqueline Elliott and Lee Webb. Preface by Robert Michael Pyle, 1998. ISBN 0-87071-449-X. Paperback, $21.95. This collection of nature writings and artwork chronicles a self-taught naturalist's personal journey through the wilderness
	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.
	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.
	Tall Tales from Rogue River: The Yarns of Hathaway Jones Edited by Stephen Dow Beckham, 1991. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-512-7. Paperback, $16.95. The tall tales of a colorful man who was proud of his reputation as the biggest liar in the country.
	Timber By Roderick Haig-Brown. Introduction by Glen A. Love, 1993. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-514-3. Hardcover, $27.95. ISBN 0-87071-515-1. Paperback, $15.95. The story of a friendship between two men and a woman they both love, set in the Northwest woods during the heyday of steam logging.
	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.
	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.
	Troubled Intimacies: A Life in the Interior West By David Axelrod, 2004. ISBN 0-87071-038-9. Paperback, $18.95. "This collection of wonderfully crafted essays demonstrates David Axelrod's remarkable talent for writing as well as his keen observations of both nature and humanity. Here we discover the intricacies of birds' nests and poetry, the excitement of beekeeping and stargazing, along with the hardscrabble of rural poverty, the challenges of being Jewish in the remote West. By turns humorous, wise, and poignant, Axelrod's prose is always graceful. Troubled Intimacies is a generous gift to the reader." --Craig Lesley
	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.
	Up All Night By Martha Gies, 2004. ISBN 0-87071-028-1. Paperback, $17.95. Night, inhospitable and dangerous, tantalizes the imagination. Rarely are we awake to see it through. This fascinating collection of voices from the graveyard shift shows us who is out there in the dark while the rest of us sleep.
	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.
	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.
	The Wallowas: Coming of Age in the Wilderness By William Ashworth, 1998. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-523-2. Paperback, $17.95. Part mountaineering adventure story and part spiritual memoir, this book recounts a young man's search for the challenges and the solace of wilderness.
	Westerns By Richard Dankleff, 1984. ISBN 0-87071-340-X. Paperback, $9.95. Publishers Weekly in its review of this book called it "the first book of poetry ever to have movie potential."
	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.
	Wildmen, Wobblies, and Whistle Punks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest Edited by Brian Booth, 1994. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-383-3. Paperback, $19.95. 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.
	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.
	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.
	Writing the World: Understanding William Stafford By Judith Kitchen, 1999. ISBN 0-87071-456-2 Paperback, $19.95. An excellent introduction for readers coming to William Stafford for the first time and an overview of the work for the many readers already familiar with his poetry, Writing the World offers the best single guide to one of the most respected and celebrated poets of our time.
	Yamsi: A Year in the Life of a Wilderness Ranch By Dayton Hyde, with a new introduction by William Kittredge, 1996. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-522-4. Paperback, $17.95. The journal of a man struggling to run a family-owned cattle business in an age of corporate agriculture and to do so in an environmentally sensitive way.
	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.