Topic: Oregon

304 pages - soft cover Cost: Purchased at Museum in Oregon SYNOPSIS Eight firsthand accounts of women who braved the overland trails during the great 19th-century westward migration are collected here. Holmes (1914-95) was a professor of history at Oregon College of ...

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A look at the fiction that appeared in hardcover in 2003 revealed a highly unusual situation. Alongside this stood science-fiction and fantasy master Ray Bradbury's Bradbury Stories: A third collection was The Stories of Richard Bausch, an impressive 600-page retrospective by the ...
Nebraska's coupons, are clipped from a flyer Colorado's magnet, needs glue Wyoming, holds a photograph of dad Montana's picture, makes mom look sad Utah's advertisements, have long been sold

Catamaran Sailing

I first tried sailing many years ago in Oregon, when I traded an old car I had for an 18 ft. The guy I got it from brought the boat over on its' trailer, picked up the car, gave me some verbal ...

The Love Light Within Part 2

I?m perched on one of those folding, beach chairs, in our backyard patio area. Chaos began on December 15Then my publicist for my previous book, The Eby Way, called to say she could not complete her work on my book trailer and ...

Ezra Meeker

In 1852 he traveled west along the Oregon Trail in an ox-drawn covered wagon. In 1906 and 1910 Meeker retraveled the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon to arouse interest in pioneer history.

CRITICISM THEATER FILM JOURNALISM ETC

The article reviews several books including " Ethics in culture; the dissemination of values through literature and other media," edited by Astrid Erll, "Estrangement and the somatics of literature; Tolstoy, Shklovsky, Brecht," by Douglas Robinson and "The quality of literature; linguistic studies ...

P Is for Poetry

The article reports on the teaming of children from California, Oregon and Washington to write books about the best features of their states from A to Z. The children will describe each feature in a couplet, or two lines of a poem ...

Joaquin Miller

Joaquin Miller, pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller, Hiner also spelled Heine (b. Miller went west with his family and led a picaresque early life in California among miners, gamblers, and Indians. His other books of poetry included Songs of the Sunlands (1873), ...

The Hearts of Horses

The article reviews the book " While I don't often pick up horse-related fiction, the premise for this novel intrigued me. In a story set in Oregon in 1917, cowboys and farmers are off to war. Nineteen-year-old Martha Lessen saddles up a ...
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