The elusive state of Jefferson
Subtitle: a journey through the 51st state
By: Peter Laufer, PhD
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: TwoDot, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press; TwoDot
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Guilford, Connecticut
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780762788361
Subjects: Politics and government; Statehood (American politics); Description and travel; Environmentalism; Social conditions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is Jefferson? Foreword by Kathleen Holt; title: Where is Jefferson? Foreword by Ralph Lewin; title: Preface; title: En route to Port Orford: Jefferson's lost capital; title: An introduction to hick mayor Gilbert Gable; title: A rugged coast's rugged history; title: Port Orford pioneer survivors; title: Port Orford mayoral dreams: from Portland to Carmel; title: Mayor Gable pimps statehood; title: Never let the facts stand in the path of a good story; title: Liquid journalism; title: Is it a real state, or merely the mock; title: Sacramento subsidies; title: Smoke and the iconoclastic sheriff; title: Double crossed; title: The two state solution; title: Less is more; title: No monument land; title: The vacant trailer park; title: Calmer voices; title: Indian country; title: A tentative agreement; title: Klamath falls depression; title: Vice President Cheney intrudes; title: Live from the People's Republic of Ashland; title: The Jefferson resurgence; title: Journalist turned activist; title: Jefferson, the United Nations, and the power of talk shows; title: Depopulated wilderness and urban zoos; title: Sacred water, sacred life; title: Media free-for-all; title: There's gold in that there river; title: Where it all began; title: Drinking with the greenies; title: The art of Jefferson; title: At the Hempfest and with the State of Jefferson Band.