| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

Uncertain Encounters: Indians and Whites at Peace and War in Southern Oregon, 1820s to 1860s. By Nathan Douthit. (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2002. viii, 248 pp. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-87071-549-6.)

Professor Emeritus Nathan Douthit has closely read the sources pertaining to the Rogue River war of 1855–1856, "one of the earliest and most destructive wars against Indians west of the Mississippi River" (p. 1). The closest research libraries to his home in Coos Bay, Oregon, are in San Francisco and Eugene, so it has taken time. But Douthit had advantages, too. Local historians, some of whom have spent years in research on their own topics, generously shared the product of their labors. A longtime association with other Oregon professors, including Theodore Stern and Stephen Dow Beckham, gave Douthit access to their counsel. Finally, the staff of the Oregon Historical Quarterly assisted Douthit by editing, peer reviewing, and publishing three of his articles in the 1990s, all of which helped to clarify his thoughts. The end result is the book under review, a precise, slightly narrow study that runs from the fur trade to Indian removal to the Siletz and Grand Ronde reservations—the equivalent of the Trail of Tears for the Pacific Northwest.

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