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BOOK NOTES
Oregon Historical Quarterly volunteers and staff created these Book Notes by drawing on publishers' descriptions. Editors have chosen to not review the following list of books but nevertheless wish to notify readers of their publication.
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Observing Our Peninsula's Past: The Age of Legends through 1931
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by Nancy Lloyd
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| The Chinook Observer, Long Beach, Wash., 2003. Photographs, maps, bibliography, index. 168 pages. $35.00 paper. |
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Observing Our Peninsula's Past: The 1930s through 1980
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by Nancy Lloyd
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| Oysterville Hand Print, Oysterville, Washington, 2006. Photographs, Maps, Index. 218 pages. $35 paper. |
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Author Nancy Lloyd has spent years studying and writing about the people and history of South Pacific County, Washington, and its Long Beach Peninsula. These two volumes, a result of The Chinook Observer Centennial Project, are a compilation of stories gleaned from the newspaper's first century of publication. The stories, along with hundreds of rare photos and maps, many from the Kjeld Enevoldsen Photo Collection, jigsaw together a picture of life on the rainy, fishy peninsula at the edge of the continent.
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Redrawing Boundaries: Perspectives on Western American Art
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by Peter Hassrick
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| University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 2007. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography. 80 pages. $22.50 paper. |
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Six writers on art and popular culture survey the terrain of western art in the twenty-first century, tracing and refining its boundaries in the areas of aesthetics and national identity. Their observations support a newly emerging history that places western art in social, psychological, political, and aesthetic contexts. The nine-by-twelve–inch volume, produced by The Institute of Western American Art, Denver Art Museum, is replete with color illustrations that accompany the essays.
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Fort Clatsop: Rebuilding an Icon
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by the Daily Astorian
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| Ooligan Press, Portland, Oregon, 2007. Illustrations, photographs, maps. 128 pages. $14.95 paper. |
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A collaboration between the Daily Astorian and Ooligan Press, Fort Clatsop: Rebuilding an Icon reveals the three lives of the Fort Clatsop replica built by Astoria residents. This book describes the Lewis and Clark Expedition's creation of Fort Clatsop on what became the Oregon coast, the local community's original construction of the replica fort in order to honor that journey, and the rebuilding of that memorial after an October 2005 fire burned it to the ground.
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Bears: A Brief History
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by Bernd Brunner
translated by Lori Lantz Yale
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| University Press, New Haven, Conn., 2007. Illustrations, bibliography, index. 272 pages. $25.00 cloth. |
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Bears: A Brief History examines the history of human-bear relations around the world, exploring how bears have become central figures in our myths and dreams. Brunner also reveals the extent to which human feelings about bears have been — and still are — mixed, and he also raises the question of whether our images of bears have much in common with the actual animals.
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Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890–1920: Socialists, Populists, Miners, and Wobblies
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by David Berman
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| University Press of Colorado, Boulder, 2007. Photographs, tables, notes, index. 401 pages. $39.95 cloth. |
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| Berman draws on radical newspapers, reports by labor spies and government agents, and membership and voting records to give readers a view into the West's radical past. Focusing on the populist and socialist movements, he explores American radicalism with this regional study. Radicalism in the Mountain West tells how volleys of strikes, property damage, executions, and deportations ensued as the frontier developed. |
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