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Genre/Form: | Personal correspondence Diaries Oregon authors Biographies Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Talking on paper. Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, ©1994 (OCoLC)623075177 |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Shannon Applegate; Terence O'Donnell |
ISBN: | 0870713779 9780870713774 0870713787 9780870713781 |
OCLC Number: | 30779142 |
Description: | xviii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. |
Contents: | Introducing Oregon Diaries: A Dialogue / Shannon Applegate -- Introducing Oregon Letters / Terence O'Donnell -- The Death of Marcus Lopius at Tillamook Bay / Robert Haswell -- American Explorers Meet the Chinook Nation / William Clark -- Seeking Magnificence: A Botanist Finds a Douglas County Pine / David Douglas -- Crossing the Plains: Letters from a Tualatin Pioneer / Peter Burnett -- A Hunter's Life Is a Dog's Life: A Fur Trapper's Letter / Tallmadge B. Wood (aka Word) Protest, Fire, and Hyperbole on the Oregon Trail / Elizabeth Dixon Smith -- A Young Woman's Trip to Oregon / Elizabeth Wood -- A Rebuke for Racists, Settlers, Bureaucrats, Mercenaries, and Thieves / Anonymous Soldier -- Oregon Is a Wicked Paradise, Washington a Children's Heaven: A Missionary's Letter / Calvin B. West -- I Cannot Live with Mr. Judson: A Willamette Valley Wife Petitions the Legislature for Divorce / Nancy Judson Perfecting the Self in Eugene, Then Going East Forever / Henry Cummins -- Oregon Is Not Wealth, but Contentment and a Conscience Clear of Offense / Eugene Skinner -- At Home and Almost Alone for Ten Years: An Astoria Bachelor's Diary / Preston W. Gillette -- Yankee and Pacifist: Two Cousins Argue the Civil War from Yoncalla / Harriette Applegate and Gertrude Applegate Rowing After Indians Is Not a Real Soldier's Duty: A Union Corporal's Diary from Fort Yamhill / Royal Augustus Bensell -- My Brightest Flowers Have Faded: A Grandmother's Letter to Her Granddaughter So Far from Home / Rachel Colver -- Work for the Night Is Coming: A Lane Country Farm Wife's Diary / Ellen Hemenway Humphrey -- The Place Was Crammed with the Elite: The Diary of a Federal Judge in Portland / Matthew P. Deady It Is Impossible to Catch Them: A Lieutenant's Letter from the Lava Beds / Harry De Witt Moore -- Eight Greedy Men Lived around Dick Johnson's Farm: A Letter to Expose Racist Criminals / Oliver Cromwell Applegate -- Advice to a Lake County Girl from Her Best Friend in Corvallis / Cynthia Horning -- Letter to a Doll / Polly Hewitt McArthur -- George Eliot's Life Has Made Me Ashamed: A Portland Socialite's Quest for Knowledge, Reverence, Control / Emily B. Trevett The Roseburg Gambler Who Wrote His Mama Everything -- Almost -- and Invented His Own Spelling / Rufus B. Matthews and Grace Smith Matthews -- Gold Miners in a Siskiyou Mountain Winter / Charles Marshall -- A Mother Creates a Memorial Fund after Her Boy Dies in a Hunting Accident / Amanda Smith Donaldson -- Pebbles Picked Up on the Beach at Newport / Florence Hofer -- Doing Double Duty: A Suffragist's Self-Portrait / Abigail Scott Duniway Railroading in Oregon: A Greek Poet's Diary / Haralambos Kambouris -- A Teacher's Life at Crooked Finger School / Elizabeth Trimberger -- Oregon's Two-Time Nobel Prize Winner Prepares for College / Linus Carl Pauling -- After the Campaign, a Senator Thanks His Lion / Charles Linza McNary -- The Many Things That Opal Sees When She Is Sent Straight for the Milk: Chapter from a Controversial Best Seller / Opal Whiteley Where There Is No Vision, the People Perish: A Professor's Diary from the Willamette Valley / John Casteel -- Pulp Hack or Enduring Artist? A Western Novelist in Conflict with Himself / Ernest Haycox -- A Fast Hard-Talking Progressive in Coos Bay -- a Slow and Easy Town / Fred Brenne -- Seasick All Day: A Federal Landlubber Reports His Short Unhappy Voyage to Tillamook Rock / A. J. Tittinger Make No Peace with Oppression: A Priest Calls for Union Reform in Portland during World War II / Lee Owen Stone -- All War Stinks to High Heaven: A C.O.'s Diary from World War II / Adrian Wilson -- Bozo the Clown: A Jacksonville Boy Never Forgets His Friends / Vance DeBar Colvig -- Building Our Summer Place above Eagle Creek / William Nunn -- How Many Nights Did I Cry: An Issei Settler Remembers Her Early Life in Hood River / Shizue Iwatsuki It's Great Here Except I'm Lonely, Homesick, and Going Crazy: Letters from an Army Private in Vietnam / Kenneth Reber -- A Marylhurst Nun's Diary, or Exploring the Sacred Mainland Within / Miriam Murphy -- Not Likely to Cut Corners: One Day in a Solo Walk across Oregon / William L. Sullivan -- Observing Instead of Disturbing: A Peaceful Meeting in the Blue Mountains / Thomas Farnham Selling What You Don't Own: An Early Federal Fiasco with No Fast Fix / William Chinook, Robert Hull and Joel Palmer -- A New Husband -- Alone in John Day -- Learns How Not to Make His Bread / George Irving Hazeltine -- To Think We Are So Far Away: An Army Bride in Eastern Oregon / Julia Gilliss -- A Lonely Bachelor in His Log Castle in Paradise / Orson A. Stearns -- Anxiety and Astonishment: A Mother and Daughter Report on the Ochocos / Eunice Robbins and Kate Robbins Should a Woman Become a Doctor? A Man of Destiny Responds / Jesse Applegate -- The Wreck of the Yakima, a Steamboat, at John Day Rapids / Eli S. Glover -- Walking on Toads at Linkville: An Editor Meets Klamath Marsh / James M. Sutton -- A Soldier and Poet in the Last Oregon Indian War / Charles Erskine Scott Wood -- Diphtheria Has Taken Nearly All My Children: A Wallowa Mother's Lament -- With a Scapegoat / Sarah Jane Findley Paiute Refugees from the Malheur Need a Bit of Land: Another Letter Never Answered by Washington D.C. / Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins -- A Baker City Orphan Girl Endures the Worst -- With Help from a Chinese, Sisters, Teachers, Neighbors, Friends / Grace McCrary -- I Ran for the Hills: A Girl Escapes the Mitchell Flash Flood in 1884 / Julia Wilson -- Save the Cascade Mountain Reserve / John Waldo -- The Invisible Men of Gold Mountain: Four Chinese Voices / Kam Wah Chung letters Anonymous Miner -- Tong Yick Chuen Co -- Lao Chi-Kwang -- Kwang-chi -- Running a Tighter Ranch in Hard Times: A Boss's Letter to His Manager in Harney County / Henry Kreiser Miller -- The Mazamas Ascend Mr. Jefferson: A Polk County Adventure in Equality / Charles C. Lewis -- A Naturalist on Bridge Creek Digs All Day, Then Dreams / Loye Miller -- The Photographer Who Saw Lakeview Burn Makes Her New Year's Resolution / Cornelia Bernard Knox Watson Sage, Jackrabbits, Infant Death: The Last Settlers on a High Desert Homestead / Anna Steinhoff -- This Quiet and Harmonious State Is All in Turmoil: A Teacher's Diary / Alice Day Pratt -- Best Bronco and Best Rider: A Redmond Potato Show Story / Essie McGuire -- Klamath Falls Celebrates the End of War -- Early / Claudia Spink Lorenz -- A Boy in Bend -- Fatherless and Thirteen -- Needs to Write / John Robert Keyes Letter from Ontario to a Yankee Who Bought 640 Acres of Hades / William E. Lees -- Commonplace Things Are Important: A Doctor's Lost Diary from Sisters / L. H. Vincent -- Rough and Rocky as Far as I Can See: A Diary from a Wasco County Ranch / Mary McKinley -- Detailed to the Point of Wearisomeness: A Joseph Eccentric's Diary / Daniel Mote -- The River Has Glimmered through My Whole Life: A Writer Remembers Her Grande Ronde Valley Childhood / Ella Higginson The News from Sourdough Ridge: A Spray Cowboy Writes His Friends / Dave Stirewalt -- The Closing of the Range: Angry Basque Sheepmen Leave the High Desert / Felix Urizar -- Rambling Around inside My Head: A Moro Father's Letters to His Daughter / Giles French -- The Naked Truth about the Mysterious Lady of the Woods / Earl Russell Bush -- Doubting the Coming of Dam Civilization: Christmas Letters from a Baker County Ranch / Brooks Hawley Just the Same as White People: African Americans East of the Cascades / John Scharff -- Grace in the Year before Death: A Hispanic Girl's Diary from Nyssa / Nora Longoria -- Trying Hard Not to Become Extremely Religious: A Fire Lookout Diary from the Blue Mountains / Cindy Donnelly Fairchild -- Packing in the Dudes: A Wallowa County Hunting Camp Letter / Jane Bachman Tippett -- Whispers in the Night: Reflections of a Wildlife Biologist / Jack Ward Thomas. |
Series Title: | Oregon literature series, v. 6. |
Responsibility: | [edited by] Shannon Applegate & Terence O'Donnell. |
Abstract:
These writings by ordinary Oregonians reveal a personal side of Oregon history, filled with the concrete details of everyday life.
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