Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistle Punks
Author : Stewart H. Holbrook
Publisher :
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Northwest, Pacific
ISBN :
Author : Stewart H. Holbrook
Publisher :
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Northwest, Pacific
ISBN :
Author : Stewart H. Holbrook
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,93 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN :
Stewart Holbrook - high-school dropout, logger, journalist, storyteller, and historian - was one of the best-loved figures in the Pacific Northwest during the two decades preceding his death in 1964. This anthology collects two dozen of his best pieces about his adopted home, the Pacific Northwest. Holbrook believed in "lowbrow or non-stuffed shirt history." Holbrook's lowbrow Northwest ranges from British Columbia logging camps to Oregon ranches, and is peopled with fascinating characters like Liverpool Liz of the old Portland waterfront, the over-sexed prophet Joshua II of the Church of the Brides of Christ in Corvallis, and Arthur Boose, the last Wobbly paper boy. Here are stories of forgotten scandals and crimes, forest fires, floods, and other catastrophes, stories of workers, underdogs, scoundrels, dreamers, and fanatics, stories that bring the past to life.
Author : Stewart H. Holbrook
Publisher : Epicenter Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 27,79 MB
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1941890075
Holy Old Mackinaw is the rough and lusty story of the American lumberjack at work and at play, from Maine to Oregon. In these modern days timber is harvested by cigarette-smoking married men, whose children go to school in buses, but for nearly three hundred years the logger was a real pioneer who ranged through the forests of many states, steel calks in his boots and ax in his fist, a plug of chew handy, who emerged at intervals into the towns to call on soft ladies and drink hard liquor.
Author : Jan MacKell Collins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1493038109
Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or were forced to enter an industry where they faced segregation and persecution, fines and jailing, and battled the hazards of disease, drug addiction, physical abuse, and pregnancy. They dreamed of escape through marriage or retirement, but more often found relief only in death. An integral part of western history, the stories of these women continue to fascinate readers and captivate the minds of historians today.
Author : Harold Lenoir Davis
Publisher : Northwest Readers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 39,62 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Davis Country collects the best writings of H. L. Davis, one of the Northwest's premier authors and the only Oregonian to receive the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Born in southern Oregon's Umpqua Valley in 1894, Davis grew up in Antelope and The Dalles. He began as a poet, receiving the prestigious Levinson Prize at age twenty-Five. With the encouragement of H. L. Mencken, he turned to fiction, winning the Pulitzer Prize for his 1935 novel Honey in the Horn, which Mencken called the best first novel ever published in America. Full of humor and humanity, Davis's work displays a vast knowledge of Pacific Northwest history, lore, and landscape. His instinctive feel for the Northwest-the weather, trees, plants, animals, the varieties of Oregon rain, the smell of forest winds and high-desert heat-is unmatched. This volume gathers many of Davis's finest stories, essays, poems, and letters, as well as excerpts from his most famous novels. An introduction by editors Brian Booth and Glen Love, a brief autobiography, and an afterword on Davis's final, unfinished novel provide for a better understanding of this truly original Northwest voice. Book jacket.
Author : Diane L. Goeres-Gardner
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Executions (Administrative law)
ISBN : 9780870044465
Author : Aaron Goings
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Labor movement
ISBN : 9780870719684
"The Red Coast is a lively and readable informal history of the labor, left-wing, and progressive activists who lived, worked, and organized in southwest Washington State from the late nineteenth century until World War II. The book serves as a hidden history for a region frequently identified with conservatism, rescuing these working-class activists from obscurity and placing them at the center of southwest Washington's history."--Back cover.
Author : Heather Mayer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,61 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870719394
"A history of Pacific Northwest women's roles in the Industrial Workers of the World organization between 1905 and 1924"--
Author : Eric Rutkow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1439193584
In the bestselling tradition of Michael Pollan's "Second Nature," this fascinating and unique historical work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and trees across the entire span of our nation's history.
Author : Jim Phillips
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 30,29 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 077484051X
Murdering Holiness explores the story of the "Holy Roller" sect led by Franz Creffield in the early years of the twentieth century. In the opening chapters, the authors introduce us to the community of Corvallis, Oregon, where Creffield, a charismatic, self-styled messiah, taught his followers to forsake their families and worldly possessions and to seek salvation through him. As his teachings became more extreme, the local community reacted: Creffield was tarred and feathered and his followers were incarcerated in the state asylum. Creffield himself was later imprisoned for adultery, but shortly after his release he revived the sect. This proved too much for some of the adherents' families, and in May 1906 George Mitchell, the brother of two women in the sect, pursued Creffield to Seattle and shot him dead.