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Frank Amato Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
The Pacific Northwest has a rich and fascinating history, especially along the mighty Columbia River near Astoria, Oregon. Many of us are familiar with the story of Lewis and Clark as they crossed the country in search of the Pacific Ocean, but what of the people who inhabited the region before and after their adventure? Through text and over 100 historical photographs, Penttila shares the tough everyday lives and extraordinary events of the Native...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
"Based on the best-selling novel about a two-fisted Oregon lumber family, the story focuses on a family that bucks their close-knit timber community in order to deliver a shipment of logs in defiance of a strike. In the process, one man is killed, the family patriarch Henry (Henry Fonda) is injured, and the eldest son Hank (Paul Newman) almost loses his wife (Lee Remick) to his half brother (Michael Sarrazin). Filled with complex characters and issues...
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Triplogs volume 2
Publisher
Geological Society of the Oregon Country
Pub. Date
1968
Language
English
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Ax men volume season 2
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Explore the past and present of the rough-and-tumble logging industry and the treacherous lives of Pacific Northwest timber cutters. Follow five logging crews, including a team of diving loggers and another that relies on helicopters, through a season in the remote forests of northwest Oregon.
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English
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Love, death, coming of age, and Native American spiritual beliefs flow together with the forces of nature, in this engrossing novel. It is a story of loss and redemption, family and community, the western panorama, and the landscape of the heart. This is a moving family portrait etched in the rugged terrain of a small town in Oregon.
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Series
R6-NR-FID-PR volume 01-06
Publisher
USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Series
Ax men volume season 5
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Explore the past and present of the rough-and-tumble logging industry and the treacherous lives of Pacific Northwest timber cutters. Follow four logging crews through a season in the remote forests of northwest Oregon.
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Publisher
Wilderness Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
First published in 1974, The Pacific Crest Trail, Vol. 2, Oregon & Washington quickly established itself as the book trekkers could not do without. Now thoroughly updated and redesigned, Pacific Crest Trail: Oregon & Washington starts at the California-Oregon border and guides you to the edge of Canada. It winds past rivers, peaks, forests, meadows, fascinating geological formations, and other natural wonders--such as Mount Hood, Mount Rainier, and...
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Series
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Pub. Date
©1992
Language
English
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Stewart Holbrook - high-school dropout, logger, journalist, storyteller, and historian - was one of the best-loved figures in the Pacific Northwest during the two decades preceding his death in 1964. This anthology collects two dozen of his best pieces about his adopted home, the Pacific Northwest. Holbrook believed in "lowbrow or non-stuffed shirt history." Holbrook's lowbrow Northwest ranges from British Columbia logging camps to Oregon ranches,...
Author
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"Ricky Zamora brings his love of map-making and his boundless curiosity to the arid landscapes east of the Cascades Mountains. He arrives during a wild thunderstorm, and watches his family and their neighbors scramble to deal with a wildfire sparked by lightning. Joined by his friend Ellie, he sees how plants, animals, and people adjust to life with wildfires"--
Author
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Tree sitters. Logger protests. Dying timber towns. An iconic species on the brink. The Timber Wars consumed the Pacific Northwest in the late 1980s and early1990s and led political leaders to ask scientists for a solution. The Northwest Forest Plan was the result. For most of the twentieth century, the central theme of federal forest management in the Pacific Northwest had been logging old-growth forests to provide a sustained yield of timber. During...
Author
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ann Stinson grew up on her family's tree farm in southwestern Washington state, on a ridge above the Cowlitz River. After building a life in New York and Portland, she returned home at the age of fifty, when her brother's death from cancer left her manager and co-owner of three hundred acres planted in Douglas fir, western red cedar, and ponderosa pine. The Ground at My Feet is a memoir about loss and grief as well as a portrait of a family, a region,...
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English
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"Old Keb Wisting is somewhere around ninety-five years old (he lost count awhile ago) and in constant pain and thinks he wants to die. He also thinks he thinks too much. Part Norwegian and part Tlingit Native (with some Filipino and Portuguese thrown in), he s the last living canoe carver in the village of Jinkaat, in Southeast Alaska. When his grandson, James, a promising basketball player, ruins his leg in a logging accident and tells his grandpa...
Author
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The Civilization of the American Indian volume 42
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
1955
Language
English
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