Talking on paper : an anthology of Oregon letters and diaries /
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| Imprint: | Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, c1994. |
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| Description: | p. cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oregon literature series v. 6 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1669709 |
Table of 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.