Reading Portland

The City in Prose
Herausgeber: Trombold, John; Donahue, Peter

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Produktbeschreibung

Ranging from stories told long before Euroamericans arrived in the Pacific Northwest to those published in the twenty-first century, Reading Portland is a literary exploration of the city's past and present. In almost one hundred selections, Portland is revealed through histories, memoirs, autobiographies, short stories, novels, and news reports. Authors include Harvey Scott , Abigail Duniway, Stewart Holbrook, Beverly Cleary, Ursula LeGuin, Elizabeth Woody, and many more.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 789g
• ISBN-13: 9780295986777
• ISBN-10: 0295986778
• Artikelnr.: 22526394

Autorenporträt

Edited by John Trombold and Peter Donahue

Inhaltsangabe

The Pull of the Rivers: A Preface, by Peter Donahue / xv
Acknowledgments / xxi
Reading Portland: An Introduction, by John Trombold / xxiii
Early Portland: Muddy Streets and Destiny
MATTHEW DEADY / 3
Portland-on-Wallamet
HARVEY W. SCOTT / 6
From History of Portland
Position and Advantages of Portland
Settlement and Early Times
JANET STEVENSON / 10
From Departure
The Third Month
The Fourth Month
The Fifth Month
ROBERT ORMOND CASE / 20
From Empire Builders
1850-Interlude
Once to Every Warrior
ALFRED POWERS / 28
From Long Way to Frisco
THERESA TRUCHOT / 31
From Charcoal Wagon Boy
Smuggler Catchers
ERNEST HAYCOX / 34
From The Long Storm
MALCOLM CLARK JR. / 40
The War on the Webfoot Saloon
STEWART HOLBROOK / 50
The Three Sirens of Portland
RUDYARD KIPLING / 56
From From Sea to Sea
JOAQUIN MILLER / 59
From Memorie and Rime
The New and the Old
JOEL REDON / 62
From The Road to Zena
E. KIMBARK MACCOLL / 66
From The Shaping of a City
A Wide Angle View
STEPHEN DOUGLAS PUTER / 71
From Looters of the Public Domain
History of the Picture that Elected Hermann to Congress
ANONYMOUS / 74
The Life Story of a Japanese Servant
ANONYMOUS / 78
The Portland Exposition
JAMES STEVENS / 85
From Big Jim Turner
Little Pretty and the Seven Bulls
STEVEN LOWENSTEIN / 98
From The Jews of Oregon
The Story of Aaron and Jeanette Meier
Modern Portland: The Rose City
CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD / 105
Portland's Feast of Roses
LOUISE BRYANT / 112
Two Judges
EVELYN MCDANIEL GIBB / 114
From Two Wheels North
BARBARA BARTLETT HARTWELL / 120
The Wood Household
JOHN REED / 126
Almost Thirty
ALAN CHEUSE / 132
From The Bohemians
ALAN HART / 147
From Doctor Mallory
SANDY POLISHUK / 152
From Sticking to the Union
MICHAEL MUNK / 160
Portland's "Silk Stocking Mob"
LAURENCE PRATT / 168
From I Remember Portland
Chinatown
Bicycle
JAMES BEARD / 172
From Delights and Prejudices
NANCY NOON KENDALL / 181
From The Wise in Heart
MARY BARNARD / 191
From Assault on Mount Helicon
BEVERLY CLEARY / 201
From A Girl from Yamhill
High School Freshmen
Wise Fools
Love and the Spelling Bee
CLYDE RICE / 210
From Nordi's Gift
TOM MCALLISTER and DAVID B. MARSHALL / 215
Hometown
ELIZABETH MCLAGAN / 219
From A Peculiar Paradise
Sober, Industrious, and Honest
KATHRYN HALL BOGLE / 225
An American Negro Speaks of Color
AUGUSTA CLAWSON / 230
From Shipyard Diary of a Woman Welder
JOHN OKADA / 237
From No-No Boy
LAWSON FUSAO INADA / 247
The Flower Girls
MARIE ROSE WONG / 258
From Sweet Cakes, Long Journey
Portland Proper: Neighborhoods,
Activists, Nature, and Beer
ROBERT DIETSCHE / 265
Where Jump Was a Noun
DON CARPENTER / 274
From The Class of '49
May Fete Day
RICHARD NEUBERGER / 280
My Hometown Is Good Enough for Me
PHIL STANFORD / 287
From Portland Confidential
Back to Business as Usual
The Tantalizing Candy Renee
Hot Times at the Desert Room
GARY SNYDER / 292
From The Practice of the Wild
The Same Old Song and Dance
PAUL PINTARICH / 293
From History By the Glass
MIKAL GILMORE / 304
From Shot in the Heart
Settling Down
Strangers
KIM STAFFORD / 314
The Separate Hearth
SHANA ALEXANDER / 321
From Astonishing Elephant
The Elephant's Child
RUTH BARNETT and DOUG BAKER / 329
From They Weep on My Doorstep
ALBERT DRAKE / 336
From One Summer
Lost Lake
Scotch Broom
Smells
At the Branch
URSULA K. LEGUIN / 343
From The Lathe of Heaven
KENNETH STERN / 353
From Loud Hawk
A Bullet in a Guy's Head
ALEXANDER PATTERSON / 358
Terrasquirma and the Engines of Social Change in 1970s Portland
ED EDMO / 367
After Celilo
RICHARD HUGO / 371
From Death and the Good Life
JEWEL LANSING / 384
From Deadly Games in City Hall
LOUIS MASSON / 390
From the Wheelhouse of the Western Cougar
DAVID JAMES DUNCAN / 395
From The River Why
Little, But Strong
Closing the Door
WALT CURTIS / 402
From Mala Noche and Other "Illegal" Adventures
Immigrants
Notes on the Mexican Kids
DANIEL CHACÓN / 409
From Chicano Chicanery
Aztlan, Oregon
DOUGLAS COUPLAND / 420
From Generation X
MTV Not Bullets
Transform
Welcome Home from Vietnam, Son
ROBIN CODY / 427
From Voyage of a Summer Sun
The Urban Waterway
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT MOON / 433
From River-Horse
Robot of the River
Contemporary Portland: Scenes and Reflections
ELINOR LANGER / 439
From A Hundred Little Hitlers
The Death of Mulugeta Seraw
Underground
SUSAN ORLEAN / 445
Figures in a Mall
ED GOLDBERG / 454
From Dead Air
KATHERINE DUNN / 463
From Truck
LEE WILLIAMS / 468
From After Nirvana
CARL ABBOTT / 473
From Greater Portland
Ramona Quimby's Portland: The Nicest City Possible?
DAN NEWTH / 481
Chillin'
JAN MORRIS / 482
The Other Portland
PHILLIP MARGOLIN / 486
From Ties That Bind
APRIL HENRY / 491
From Buried Diamonds
MARTHA GIES / 495
From Up All Night
Obdulia at the Rose Garden
KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE / 501
From Riverwalking
The Willamette
DONALD MILLER / 503
From Blue Like Jazz
Shifts
CHUCK PALAHNIUK / 508
From Fugitives and Refugees
Getting Off: How to Knock Off a Piece in Portland
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MATTHEW STADLER / 512
From The Stranger
Brown at the Edges with a Chewy White Center
SALLIE TISDALE / 518
Portland from the Air
ELIZABETH WOODY / 524
Buckskin
MIRANDA BEVERLY-WHITTEMORE / 526
From The Effects of Light
PETER ROCK / 530
From The Bewildered
KEVIN CANTY / 537
From Winslow in Love
DAVID OATES / 541
From City Limits: Walking Portland's Boundary
Boots on the Ground in Sherwood Forest
Selected Bibliography / 549
Citations and Permissions / 563