Blessed with vast expanses of virgin timber, a good harbor, and a San Francisco market for its lumber, the Coos Bay area once dubbed itself "a poor man's paradise." A new Prologue and Epilogue by the author bring this story of gyppo loggers, longshoremen, millwrights, and whistle punks into the twenty-first century, describing Coos Bay's transition from timber town to a retirement and tourist community, where the site of a former Weyerhaeuser complex is now home to the Coquille Indian Tribe's The Mill Casino.
Blessed with vast expanses of virgin timber, a good harbor, and a San Francisco market for its lumber, the Coos Bay area once dubbed itself "a poor man's paradise." A new Prologue and Epilogue by the author bring this story of gyppo loggers, longshoremen, millwrights, and whistle punks into the twenty-first century, describing Coos Bay's transition from timber town to a retirement and tourist community, where the site of a former Weyerhaeuser complex is now home to the Coquille Indian Tribe's The Mill Casino.
Robbins is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of History at Oregon State University. He has published eight books on the Pacific Northwest, including Hard Times In Paradise: Coos Bay, Oregon (Washington), Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940-2000 (Washington), and Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story, 1800-1940 (Washington).
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Map 1 Coos County, Oregon Map 2 Coos Bay area Prologue to the Revised Edition Preface to the Original Edition Introduction 1) Poor Man's Paradise 2) An Empire Itself 3) The "Big Mill" and Its World 4) Logging the Coos Timber 5) Getting By 6) Surviving the Great Depression 7) The Second World War 8) Lumber Capital of the World 9) Timber Fever 10) Bosses and Workers 11) Hard Times and Survivors Post Mortem: Reflections on the Present Condition Epilogue to the Revised Edition Notes Index
Map 1 Coos County, Oregon Map 2 Coos Bay area Prologue to the Revised Edition Preface to the Original Edition Introduction 1) Poor Man's Paradise 2) An Empire Itself 3) The "Big Mill" and Its World 4) Logging the Coos Timber 5) Getting By 6) Surviving the Great Depression 7) The Second World War 8) Lumber Capital of the World 9) Timber Fever 10) Bosses and Workers 11) Hard Times and Survivors Post Mortem: Reflections on the Present Condition Epilogue to the Revised Edition Notes Index
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