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Author: William M. Hilleary Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 268
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" ... Corporal Helleary's picture of his participation in the life, functions, adventures, and vicissitudes of an Oregon volunteer in 1864, 1865, and 1866 at posts on both sides of the Cascades."--Vi.
Author: William M. Hilleary Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 268
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" ... Corporal Helleary's picture of his participation in the life, functions, adventures, and vicissitudes of an Oregon volunteer in 1864, 1865, and 1866 at posts on both sides of the Cascades."--Vi.
Author: Scott McArthur Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 0870045709 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 288
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Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Although the Pacific Northwest was the area furthest removed from the actual battles of the Civil War, it was nonetheless profoundly affected by the war. The Enemy Never Came examines the everyday lives of the volunteer soldiers who battled Native American renegades of the region and of the settlers who were deeply affected by the war yet unable to do much about it. Pacific Northwest pioneers soon chose sides, most allying with the North, others supporting the southern states’ right to withdraw from the union. Still others attempted to ignore the entire issue of the War between the States, leaving “that problem” to the folks back east. Because communication with the rest of the nation was slow and tenuous during the early years of the war, the early settlers of what are now Oregon, Washington, and Idaho concentrated on controlling the restive Native Americans whose land and society had been overwhelmed by white settlers. These same settlers, however, nonetheless vigorously argued politics and worried about invaders from the south, from the British colonies to the north, and from the sea—none of whom ever materialized.
Author: James Robbins Jewell Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1496236416 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 356
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Agents of Empire expands the historiographical scope of Civil War studies to include the war’s intersection with the history of the American West, demonstrating how the war was transcontinental in scope. Much more than a traditional Civil War regimental history, James Robbins Jewell’s work delves into the operational and social conditions under which the First Oregon Cavalry Regiment was formed. In response to ongoing tensions and violent interactions with Native peoples determined to protect their way of life and lands, Colonel George Wright, head of the military’s District of Oregon, asked the governor of Oregon to form a voluntary cavalry unit to protect white settlers and farmers. By using local volunteers, and later two additional regiments of infantry from the region, the federal government was able to draw from the majority of Regular Army troops stationed in the Pacific Northwest, who were eventually sent to fight Confederate forces east of the Mississippi River. Had the First Oregon Cavalry failed to fulfill its responsibilities, the federal government would have had to recall Union forces from other threatened areas and send them to Oregon and Washington Territory to quell secessionist unrest and Indigenous resistance to land theft, resource appropriation, and murder. The First Oregon Cavalry ensured settlers’ security in the Union’s farthest northwest corner, thereby contributing to the Union cause.
Author: Richard H. Engeman Publisher: Timber Press ISBN: 1604691476 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 433
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What's the connection between Ken Kesey and Nancy's Yogurt? How about the difference between a hoedad and a webfoot? What became of the Pixie Kitchen and the vanished Lambert Gardens? The Oregon Companion is an A–Z handbook of over 1000 people, places, and things. From Abernethy and beaver money to houseboats, railroads, and the Zigzag River, an intrepid public historian separates fact from fiction — with his sense of humor intact. Entries include towns and cities, counties, rivers, lakes, and mountains; people who have left a mark on Oregon; industries, products, crops, and natural resources. Includes more than 160 historical black and white photos. This entertaining and delightfully meticulous compendium is an essential reference for anyone curious about Oregon.
Author: Warren W. Aney and Alisha Hamel Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1467116580 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 128
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Aney and Hamel draw on service with the Oregon Army National Guard, including years spent as organizational historians to gather images culled from the Oregon Historical Society, the Oregon Military Museum, county historical societies, regional and national collections and their own personal collections illustrating distinctive stories from the past that shape our modern communities.
Author: Pat Jollota Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9781467100014 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 132
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Profiles Vancouver's most notable and notorious residents, from the city's namesake, British Captain George Vancouver, and explorer William Clark to modern day musicians and philanthropists.
Author: Julia Gilliss Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 266
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A 22-year-old bride views life in early Oregon, writing with perception and intelligence about family life in the towns and military camps of the Northwest.
Author: David Peterson del Mar Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: 0295800453 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 313
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Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 The word “violence” conjures up images of terrorism, bombings, and lynchings. Beaten Down is concerned with more prosaic acts of physical force—a husband slapping his wife, a parent taking a birch branch to a child, a pair of drunken friends squaring off to establish who was the “better man.” David Peterson del Mar accounts for the social relations of power that lie behind this intimate form of violence, this “white noise” that has always been with us, humming quietly between more explosive acts of violence. Broad in its chronological and cultural sweep, Beaten Down examines interpersonal violence in Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia beginning with Native American cultures before colonization and continuing into the mid-twentieth century. It contrasts the disparate ways of practicing and punishing interpersonal violence on each side of the U.S.-Canadian border. Del Mar concludes that we cannot comprehend the causes and moral consequences of a violent act without considering larger social relations of power, whether between colonizers and original inhabitants, between spouses, between parents and children, or between and among different ethnic groups. The author has drawn on a vast array of vivid sources, including newspaper accounts, autobiographies, novels, oral histories, historical and ethnographic publications, and hundreds of detailed court cases to account for not only the relative frequency of different forms of violence, but also the shifting definitions and perceptions of what constitutes violence. This is a thoughtful and probing account of how and why people have hit each other and the manner in which opinion makers and ordinary citizens have censured, defended, or celebrated such acts. Del Mar’s conclusions have important implications for an understanding of violence and perceptions of violence in contemporary society.
Author: William M. Hilleary
Author: William M. Hilleary
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Author: Warren W. Aney and Alisha Hamel
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Author: Julia Gilliss
Author: David Peterson del Mar