Eva Emery Dye
Writing in the early years of the 20th century, novelist Eva Emery Dye captured the imagination of American readers with her epic accounts of the...
Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813
Four years after Lewis and Clark stimulated American interest in the far western reaches of the continent, John Jacob Astor, a New York businessman, dispatched...
American Sportsmen and the Origins of Conservation
Environmentalists who believe that hunters and anglers are interested only in the kill and the catch may be surprised to learn that sportsmen were originally...
Eminent Astorians
Eminent Astorians marks the bicentennial of Astoria in 2011. Each of nine essays presents a literary biography of a figure who looms large in Astoria’s...
Astorians, Eccentric and Extraordinary
In 1993, The New Yorker published Calvin Trillin’s memorable article on the eccentric Flavel family of Astoria, the descendants of Captain George Flavel, whose ornate...
Beauty of the City
The Central Library, Benson Hotel, Reed College, the Meier & Frank building, the U.S. National Bank—these are just a few of the grand Portland icons...
Sonny Montes and Mexican American Activism in Oregon
With Sonny Montes and Mexican American Activism in Oregon, Glenn May makes a major contribution to the literature on Oregon and Chicano history. On one...
A Force for Change
A Force for Change is the first full-length study of the life and work of one of Oregon’s most dynamic civil rights activists, African American...