Women and the Pacific Northwest
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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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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. |
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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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Cohassett Beach Chronicles: World War II in
the Pacific Northwest By Kathy Hogan. Edited by 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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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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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. |
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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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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. |
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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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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. |
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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. |
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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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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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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. |
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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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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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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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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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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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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. |
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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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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 |
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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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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. |
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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. |
