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Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Not all of Oregon's pioneers were Christian farmers or bachelor prospectors. Indeed, many of the first brick buildings on Oregon's newly platted Main Streets were built by Jewish merchants whose services were essential to town founding and growth. In Embracing a Western Identity, Ellen Eisenberg places Jewish history in the larger context of Western narratives, challenging the traditional view that the 'authentic' North American Jewish experience...
Series
Oregon literature volume 1
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
This first of a six-volume anthology of literature by Oregonians or about Oregon contains old and new short stories and some Native American oral tales.
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Series
Language
English
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"At the end of the Lewis and Clark Exposition in 1905, the president of the Portland Street Fair and Carnival Association, E.W. Rowe, presented the idea of an annual festival to Portland mayor Harry Lane. From that idea came the first Rose Festival, called the Rose Carnival and Fiesta, held June 20-22, 1907. It was hailed as a huge success. 'There is no reason in the world why Portland should not hold a rose festival every year,' remarked the Oregonian...
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In 1994, Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Since then, more than 500 Oregonians have taken their mortality into their own hands. Filmmaker Peter Richardson gently enters the lives of the terminally ill as they consider whether--and when--to end their lives by lethal overdose. Richardson examines both sides of the complex, emotionally charged issue. What emerges is a life-affirming, staggeringly powerful portrait...
Publisher
Oregon State Capitol Foundation
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"From the first territorial government in Oregon City to today's modern state Capitol in Salem, citizen-legislators, elected leaders and Oregonians have met to shape the life and times of a uniquely independent state whose motto is, "She flies with her own wings." Government is not a spectator sport, and "The People's Capitol" welcomes all to join in protecting what makes Oregon unique while making our great state a better place to live"--Container....
Author
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In 1974, at the age of thirty-two, Les AuCoin became the first Democrat to win a US House seat in Oregon's First Congressional District. He was one of the young post-Watergate reformers who shook up an insular, autocratic Congress and led fights for affordable housing, "trickle-up" economics, Oregon wilderness, abortion rights, and nuclear arms control. In the late-1980s, the Oregonian called him one of the most "influential lawmakers in the Pacific...
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Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
"The installment in Mary Daheim's beloved and long-running small-town murder mystery series featuring newspaper editor-publisher Emma Lord. An unsettling visit from Ren Rawlings, a strange young woman in search of the mother who abandoned her, sparks Emma's curiosity--especially when the woman suddenly collapses and lands in the hospital. Matters become even more baffling when Emma's husband, Sheriff Milo Dodge, finds a corpse and Ren claims that...
Series
Oregon literature volume 3
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
A collection of prose writings which present the hopes and expectations of many different Oregonians from varied time periods and cultural backgrounds.
Author
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"On an unusually cold January night in 1943, Martha James was murdered on a train in rural Oregon, near the Willamette Valley town of Albany. She was White, Southern, and newly-married to a Navy pilot. Despite inconsistent and contradictory eyewitness accounts, a young Black cook by the name of Robert Folkes, a trainman from South Central Los Angeles, was charged with the crime. The ensuing investigation and sensational murder trial captured national...
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