OSU Press at Oregon State University

Northwest Reprint Series

	Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813 By Alexander Ross. 2000. Introduction by William G. Robbins. 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.
	Beyond the Garden Gate By Sophus K. Winther. Introduction by Barbara H. Meldrum. 1991. 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.
	Botanical Exploration of the Trans-Mississippi West By Susan D. McKelvey. Introduction by Stephen Dow Beckham. 1991. 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.
	Children of the Fur Trade Forgotten Metis of the Pacific Northwest John C. Jackson 2007. ISBN 978-0-87071-194-7. Paperback, $21.95. This OSU Press edition of John Jackson's acclaimed book gives readers a vivid and memorable portrait of Metis life at the western edge of North America.
	Down in My Heart: Peace Witness in War Time William Stafford Introduction by Kim Stafford 2006. ISBN-10 0-87071-097-4. ISBN-13 978-0-87071-097-1. Paperback, $15.95 From 1942 to 1946, William Stafford was interned in camps for conscientious objectors after refusing to be inducted into the U.S. Army. Stafford?s memoir of these years tells how a wartime draft created a community of peace and provides a fascinating look at the formative years of a major American poet.
	Driftwood Valley: A Woman Naturalist in the Northern Wilderness By Theodora C. Stanwell-Fletcher, Introduction by Wendell Berry, Afterword by Rhoda M. Love. 1999. 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.
	Frontier Doctor: Observations on Central Oregon and the Changing West By Urling C. Coe. Introduction by Robert Bunting. 1996. 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.
	Happy Valley By Anne Shannon Monroe. Introduction by Karen Blair. 1991. 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.
	Homesteader's Portfolio Alice Day Pratt. Introduction by Molly Gloss. 1993. 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.
	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.
	The Land Is Bright By Archie Binns. Introduction by Ann Ronald. 1992. 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.
	A Majority of Scoundrels: An Informal History of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company Don Berry Introduction by Stephen Dow Beckham 2006. ISBN-10 0-87071-089-3. ISBN-13 978-0-87071-089-6. Paperback, $22.95 With the skill of a historian, Don Berry set his celebrated trilogy of novels--Trask, Moontrap, and To Build a ShipA Majority of Scoundrels, he brings the craft of a novelist to his captivating history of the American fur trade. Berry's fresh and invigorating narrative captures the peak years (1822-1834) of the fur trade in the Mountain West, the period in which the Rocky Mountain Fur Company grew to be "the greatest name in the mountains."
	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.
	Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River By John Kirk Townsend. Introduction and annotation by George A. Jobanek. 1999. 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.
	Nehalem Tillamook Tales By Clara Pearson, and Elizabeth Derr Jacobs. Introduction by Jarold Ramsey. 1990. 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.
	On the Highest Hill By Roderick Haig-Brown. Introduction by Laurence Ricou. 1994. 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. 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.
	The Prairie Keepers: Secrets of the Zumwalt Marcy Houle 2007. ISBN 978-0-87071-186-2. Paperback, $19.95 In the remote northeast corner of Oregon lies the ruggedly beautiful Zumwalt Prairie, one of the last native prairies in the United States. It also is home to one of the highest concentrations of hawks in North America. Marcy Houle first went to the Zumwalt, which is almost entirely managed by cattle ranchers, to discover what attracts and sustains the hawks there in such startling abundance. Her findings, eloquently reported, show that ranchers and wildlife not only can coexist, but in some instances must coexist if we are to save the last of the native prairies.
	Reach of Tide, Ring of History: A Columbia River Voyage By Sam McKinney, with a new introduction by Robin Cody, 2000. 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.
	Requiem for a People: The Rogue Indians and the Frontiersmen By Stephen Dow Beckham. 1996. ISBN 0-87071-521-6. Paperback, $16.95. The classic history of southwestern Oregon's Rogue River Indian wars, now in paperback with a new introduction by the author.
	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. 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.
	Tall Tales from Rogue River: The Yarns of Hathaway Jones Edited by Stephen Dow Beckham, 1991. 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. 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.
	The Viewless Winds By Murray Morgan. Introduction by Harold Simonson. 1990. 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. 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.
	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, 1992. ISBN 0-87071-383-3. Paperback, $19.95. Here in a single volume are Stewart Holbrook's best writings about the region.
	Yamsi: A Year in the Life of a Wilderness Ranch By Dayton Hyde. Introduction by William Kittredge. 1996. ISBN 0-87071-522-4. Paperback, $15.95. The struggle of an environmentalist and rancher to run a family-owned cattle business in an age of corporate agriculture.