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Adapting in Eden (Paperback)
Oregons Catholic Minority, 18381986
Patricia Brandt and Lillian A. Pereyra
In the mid-19th century, Catholic priests played key roles in Indian affairs, colonization, and regional development in the Oregon Country. "Adapting in Eden" extensively chronicles the progress, changes, and adaptations made by Oregon's Catholic population up through the late 20th century.
Photographs map notes bibliography index 6" x 9" 224 pages (2002)
Northwest Culture/Oregon/Northwest History
Price :
US$21.95
Crooked River Country (Paperback)
Wranglers, Rogues, and Barons
David Braly
North Central Oregon's hostile country and severe climate bred genuine Wild West legendshardy souls who defied immense adversity. Despite range wars, drought, lawlessness, and economic depression, a desolate wilderness ultimately became an industrial power.
Photographs map bibliography index 6" x 9" 344 pages (2007)
Oregon/Northwest History/Native American/Northwest Culture/Pioneers/Adventurers
Price :
US$24.95
Greenscapes (Paperback)
Olmsted's Pacific Northwest
Joan Hockaday
Like his famous stepfather and mentor Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed
New York
s
Central Park
, landscape architect John Charles Olmsted believed that pastoral spaces were integral to a healthy urban life. He produced designs for Pacific Northwest university campuses and cities.
Meticulous, intensely observant, industrious, and visionary, he left a legacy that is still enjoyed daily by people across the region
.
Photographs maps notes bibliography index 9" x 10½" 196 pages
Price :
US$29.95
Iron Pants (Paperback)
Oregons Anti-New Deal Governor, Charles Henry Martin
Gary Murrell
In 1934, Oregons new Democratic governor, Charles Henry Martin, began an attack on Northwest labor unions. After political defeat in 1938, Martin blamed his troubles on the National Labor Relations Board, accused FDR of being a Communist and Fascist, and counseled appeasement with Hitler. His military career, from 1887 to 1927, is equally intriguing.
Photographs notes bibliography index 6" x 9" 250 pages (2000)
Politics/Biography/Autobiography/Oregon
Price :
US$22.95
Netting the Sun (Paperback)
A Personal Geography of the Oregon Desert
Melvin R. Adams
This surprising interpretation of south central Oregons botany, geology, wildlife, ethnography, and history reveals what a truly special place the high desert is.
Netting the Sun
offers carefully-crafted natural and human stories from a seemingly empty and forlorn landscape.
Illustrations photographs maps 6" x 9" 160 pages (2001)
Oregon/Essays and Memoirs/Nature/Environment
Price :
US$16.95
Nimrod (Paperback)
Courts, Claims and Killing on the Oregon Frontier
Ronald B. Lansing
Nimrod O'Kelly was a loner, former blacksmith, and one of the first to stake a claim in the lush Willamette valley. At 72, he also became a murderer. With marvelous depth and an attorney's insight, author Ronald B. Lansing probes and analyzes the evidence, the law, the proceedings, and the politics surrounding one of Oregon's first extensively reported murder cases, and presents this incredible story from its simple beginning to its astonishing conclusion.
Photographs maps notes references bibliography index 6" x 9" 320 pages (2005)
Oregon/Northwest History/Pioneers/Adventurers
Price :
US$19.95
Not Just Trees (Paperback)
The Legacy of a Douglas-fir Forest
Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds
This gracefully written story shows all that is lost when we destroy ancient stands of treesas revealed through a 60-year study of the flora and fauna in an Oregon Coast Range forest that was selectively logged and finally clear-cut.
Photographs maps glossary bibliography index 6" x 9" 360 pages (1999)
Nature/Environment/Oregon
Price :
US$16.95
Seasoned with Words - A Cookbook (Hardbound)
Stories, Memoirs, & Poems about Food
Members of the Oregon Writers Colony
A richly varied smorgasbord of recipes combined with storytelling and poetry related to food. More than sixty members and friends of the Oregon Writers Colony wrote vignettes and recipes for this cookbook.
Illustrations index 6" x 9" 192 pages (1998)
Cookbooks/Food History/Oregon
Price :
US$22.00
Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852 (Hardbound)
As Told by Mary Ann and Willis Boatman and Augmented with Accounts by other Overland Travelers
Weldon Willis Rau
The 1852 overland migration was the largest on record. It also was a year in which cholera took a terrible toll in lives. Included here are firsthand accounts of this fateful year.
Illustrations photographs maps notes bibliography index 6" x 9" 256 pages (2001) Best Sellers/Oregon/Northwest History/Pioneers/Adventurers
Price :
US$35.00
Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852 (Paperback)
As Told by Mary Ann and Willis Boatman and Augmented with Accounts by other Overland Travelers
Weldon Willis Rau
The 1852 overland migration was the largest on record. It also was a year in which cholera took a terrible toll in lives. Included here are firsthand accounts of this fateful year.
Illustrations photographs maps notes bibliography index 6" x 9" 256 pages (2001) Best Sellers/Oregon/Northwest History/Pioneers/Adventurers
Price :
US$18.95
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