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Book Review



Eva Emery Dye: Romance with the West. By Sheri Bartlett Browne. (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2004. vi, 186 pp. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-87071-008-7.)

This brief, clearly written book by the historian Sheri Bartlett Browne examines the life and career of Eva Emery Dye (1855–1947). Dye was, by turns, a wife, mother, writer, suffragist, and cheerleader for the Pacific Northwest. Browne's slim volume achieves its modest purpose by covering Dye's full life, without exaggerating her major achievements. 1
      Browne knits together an interesting story from a limited number of sources. The opening chapters on Dye's parentage, girlhood, and precollegiate and college training at Oberlin College draw on family correspondence and college records. She married fellow Oberlin student Charles Dye in 1882. The final five chapters (about two-thirds of the volume) deal with Dye's life after she, her husband, and their children moved to Oregon City, Oregon, in 1890. . . .

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