Gathering Moss
Winner of the 2005 John Burroughs Medal Award for Natural History Writing Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but...
Uncertain Encounters
A major contribution to the study of Indian-white relations in the Pacific Northwest, Uncertain Encounters provides a comprehensive view of relations in southern Oregon over...
A Gathering of Stones
Drawing on her wide-ranging travels, from the Canadian Arctic to the Bío-Bío River in southern Chile to the deserts of the American Southwest, Carol Ann...
Badger and Coyote Were Neighbors
"Story story." For the Clackamas Chinook Indians, these words signaled the end of a myth recital. Melville Jacobs spent a lifetime recording traditional stories and...
Requiem for a People
Stephen Dow Beckham's classic history of southwestern Oregon's Rogue River Indian wars is the only complete record of the region's Native Americans and the destruction...
Chiefs and Change in the Oregon Country
Theodore Stern's critically acclaimed 1993 book Chiefs and Chief Traders explored early encounters between the fur traders of Fort Nez Perces and the Indians of...
The World Begins Here
The first inhabitants of Oregon had an intimate knowledge of the land and a rich tradition of oral storytelling. The white settlers brought their own...
Chiefs and Chief Traders
A ground-breaking study of the relations between the fur traders of Fort Nez Perces and the Indians of the region, primarily Cayuse, Wallawalla, Umatilla, and...