The Environmental Justice
From the late 1940s to the mid-1970s, American conservation politics underwent a transformation — and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas was at the heart...
Wood Works
Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852-1944) led an extraordinary life--long, varied, and controversial. Soldier, poet, attorney, satirist, anarchist, reformer, bon vivant, painter, and pacifist--C. E. S...
Yours for Liberty
"When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world." —Abigail Scott Duniway Between 1871...
Skookum
In 1843, brothers Jesse, Lindsay, and Charley Applegate — accompanied by their wives and 22 children — led the first major wagon train from Missouri...
Facing the World
Before the Second World War, the states of Washington and Oregon were thinly populated economic backwaters of the United States. Even the major cities of...
Struggle on the North Santiam
A sixty-mile forested corridor stretching from the Willamette Valley to the Cascade mountains, Oregon’s North Santiam Canyon is like many other marginalized places in the...
New Era
New Era is a graceful and literate collection of personal essays on the human and natural history of the Oregon high desert, focusing on what...
A Tidal Odyssey
Between Pacific Tides by Edward F. Ricketts and Jack Calvin is arguably the most important book about marine ecology on the Pacific coast of North...