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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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Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: From Arts and Crafts to Modern Architecture
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by Jeffrey Karl Ochsner
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| University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2008. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 384 pages. $60.00 cloth. |
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| Lionel H. Pries (1897–1968) was one of the most influential teachers of architecture and design at the University of Washington. Many prominent twentieth-century architects were trained by Pries, whose highly artistic style of design helped shape the development of American Modernism in architecture. Jeffrey Ochsner traces Pries's evolution as a designer, architect, teacher, and artist and shows how he absorbed and synthesized disparate influences and movements in design. This comprehensive and illustrated work will appeal not only to architects, but also to those interested in American studies, the decorative arts, and Northwest history and culture. |
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The Little Lucky: A Family Geography
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by Gail Wells
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| Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2007. 144 pages. $17.95 paper. |
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| Gail Wells tells of living in and rehabilitating a family homestead near the Little Luckiamute River in western Oregon. Over twenty-five years, she and her husband worked with joy and frustration to transform a tumble-down structure into a home. Reflecting on the ways a place can shape and be shaped by family, Wells reveals the tangled dream of living in rural Oregon while raising a family and salvaging a place alive with memories. |
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Children of the Fur Trade: Forgotten Métis of the Pacific Northwest
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by John Jackson
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| Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2007 (Northwest Reprint Series). Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography. 336 pages. $21.95 paper. |
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| During the first half of the nineteenth century, a unique subculture built around hunting and mobility existed quietly in the Pacific Northwest. Métis settlers, descended from European or Canadian fur trapper fathers and Native American mothers, were pivotal to the development of the Oregon Country. Jackson's informal account shows them as explorers and mapmakers, as fur trappers and traders, and as boatmen and travelers, forced into the margins between cultures but also serving as links between the dispossessed Native peoples and the new pioneer settlers. |
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Indian War Veterans: Memories of Army Life and Campaigns in the West, 1864–1898
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compiled and edited by Jerome A. Greene
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| Savas Beatie, New York and California, 2007. Photographs, index. 387 pages. $45.00 cloth. |
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| Greene's study presents the first comprehensive collection of veteran reminiscences of the decades-long military campaign for the American West. Topics include recollections of fighting with Custer and the mutilation of the dead at Little Bighorn, the Fetterman fight, the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873, battles at Powder River and Rosebud Creek, fighting Crazy Horse at Wolf Mountains, Geronimo and the Apache wars, the Ute and Modoc wars, Wounded Knee, and others. Sources include manuscript and private collections, veterans' scrapbooks, obscure newspapers, and private veterans' statements. |
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An Architectural Guidebook to Portland, Second Edition
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by Bart King
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| Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2007. Photographs, maps, bibliography, index. 328 pages. $22.95 paper. |
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| Written for both professionals and those who simply have an interest, King's book is filled with history and photographs that demonstrate why this city is one of the most admired in the nation. Portland's civic planning, historic preservation, and overall attractiveness are all explored in detailed profiles of structures ranging from nineteenth-century cast-iron front buildings to modern skyscrapers. Now revised and updated, this second edition includes an added focus on the development of "green buildings" and sustainable design, a chapter on downtown bridges, and expanded coverage of the city's neighborhoods. |
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The Prairie Keepers: Secrets of the Zumwalt
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by Marcy Houle
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| Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, Oregon, 2007 (Northwest Reprint Series). 288 pages. $19.95 paper. |
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| Houle explored the vast and beautiful Zumwalt Prairie in the remote northeast corner of Oregon by foot and horseback, cataloging its hawks and studying its complex ecosystem. Her findings show that ranchers and wildlife not only can coexist but must coexist, if we are to save the last of the native prairies. In a new epilogue, she writes of finding reason for hope in the Zumwalt — in the hawks and ranchers still living there and also in new partnerships that encourage stewardship and sustainable cattle grazing. |
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