Great & minor moments in Oregon history
Subtitle: an illustrated anthology of illuminating glimpses into Oregon's past from prehistory to the present
By: edited by Dick Pintarich
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: New Oregon Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 527
ISBN-13: 9780980243604
Subjects: History
Other titles: Great and minor moments in Oregon history; Oregon magazine.
Notes: "An Oregon magazine book"--T.p. verso.

"Special collector's edition commemorating Oregon's sesquincentennial"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: One hundred and fifty years of solitude  -- by Win McCormack; title: Oregon: 20 million years B.C.!  -- by Don Roberts; title: Bless the rain  -- by Richard Maxwell Brown; title: The people of olden times  -- by Rick Rubin; title: The whining and dining of Lewis and Clark  -- by Dick Pintarich; title: Alas, Astoria  -- by Bruce McGillivray; title: The new eden  -- by Dick Pintarich; title: Sam Barlow's infamous road  -- by Dick Pintarich; title: The achievement of Oregon statehood  -- by Dick Pintarich & J. Kingston Pierce; title: The Oregon gold rush  -- by Dick Pintarich; title: The naming (and renaming) of Oregon  -- by Don Roberts & Dick Pintarich; title: Erskine Wood and this childhood: an interview  -- by William Boly; title: Shanghai City  -- Dick Pintarich; title: His eccentricity  -- by Dick Pintarich; title: House of mirth  -- by Dick Pintarich; title: Portland's king of beers  -- by Dick Pintarich; title: How they stole the Oregon land  -- by William Boly; title: The great jailbreak  -- by Dick Pintarich; title: The gospel according to Edmund Creffield  -- by Dick Pintarich; title: The rise and fall of the Oregon electrics  -- by Dick Pintarich; title: Guild's lake  -- by Dick Pintarich; title: Year of the plague: The swine flu pandemic of 1918  -- by Dick Pintarich & Ray Stout; title: Days of the lotus  -- by J. Kingston Pierce; title: The Siskiyou train robbery  -- by Lawrence E. C. Joers; title: Tusko the terrible  -- by J. Kingston Pierce and Dick Pintarich; title: Execution Oregon style  -- by Dick Pintarich and Ray Stout; title: Division on the docks ; title: by Robin Cody --; title: The struggle of Blacks in Oregon  -- by Dick Pintarich; title: Portland baseball's golden age  -- by Steve Cohen; title: Civic stadium weathers the years  -- by Dick Pintarich; title: The rise and fall of Big Jim Elkins  -- by Phil Stanford; title: Senator Richard Neuberger: a man ahead of his times  -- by Steve Forrester; title: The tiger: Senator Wayne Morse  -- by Ron Abell; title: A plea for the paramount  -- by Dick Pintarich; title: Steve Prefontaine: life and death on the fast track  -- by Gary Dobbs; title: Young man Walton  -- by Jack Scott; title: The real McCall  -- by Tom Bates; title: The bawdy trade  -- by Dick Pintarich and J. Kingston Pierce; title: Mustangs: still wild and free  -- by Dick Pintarich; title: An interview with Harvey Scott  -- by Dick Pintarich and J. Kingston Pierce; title: The Rajneeshees take Antelope  -- by David Sarasohn; title: The Portland that might have been  -- by Dick Pintarich; title: Chief Edison Chiloquin: the last Klamath guards the sacred fire -- by Steve Most