Louise Wagenknecht grew up in one of the West's last company lumber towns, Hilt on the California-Oregon border. There she witnessed the dying years of a unique way of life.... Læs mere
Weaving lyric essays, poems, natural history, forest science, and a personal and familial account of grief and sustenance, Ann Stinson creates an unusually rich and layered account of life in a family forest in the Pacific Northwest.
At times heartbreaking, at times harrowing, All the Leavings navigates the rugged terrain not just of the rural Oregon land where Laurie Easter has forged an off-the-grid life, but of the ragtag terrain of the human heart.
Rich with boyhood remembrances of the Pacific Northwest of the 1970s through the 1990s, this book is a memoir of trauma, healing, faith, and violence, told in... Læs mere
The first documentary history of wildfire management in the US, this book probes the long... Læs mere
Linda Meanus grew up at Celilo Falls in the years before the Dalles Dam was built and was very close with her grandparents, tribal leaders Flora and Tommy Thompson. My Name is LaMoosh... Læs mere
Presents the first full-length study of the life and work of one of Oregon's most dynamic civil rights activists, African American journalist Beatrice Morrow Cannady. Between 1912 and... Læs mere
During the short span of her career, Hazel Hall became one of the West's outstanding literary figures, a poet whose fierce, crystalline verse was frequently compared... Læs mere
Originally published: New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1999.