An Anthology of Northwest Writing 1900-1950

by Strelow, Michael H.

• ISBN13: 9780871140470
• ISBN10: 0871140470
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

Collection includes writings by Eva Emoery Dye, Woody Guthrie and Mary Barnard. Authors and pieces were selected to represent writings typical of the region and time, speak about the history of the region, or simply as enduring, quality prose. Originally published in 1979 by Northwest Review Books.

Table of Contents

The Brigade to California, from McLoughlin and Old Oregon	p. 2
Christmas at Fort Vancouver, from McLoughlin and Old Oregon	p. 5
Government Man, from The Great Command	p. 13
The Kettle of Fire	p. 24
Ben the Bosun, from Fiddler's Green	p. 44
An Editor in Snohomish from Fifty Years of Free Thought	p. 52
Pioneer Picnic, from Evergeen Land	p. 63
Reminds Me of a Story, from Evergeen Land	p. 75
from Mortgage Your Heart	p. 85
War in Paterson	p. 89
An Essay by Eleanor H. Matthews	p. 98
from Curtains two poems	p. 104
from Walkers five poems	p. 105
from Cry of Time six poems	p. 108
from The Adventurers	p. 112
One poem	p. 121
Oratorical Medicine, from Paul Bunyan	p. 125
Status Rerum	p. 140
Three Bartenders, from Homer in the Sagebrush	p. 147
Four poems, from White Peaks and Green	p. 161
Susan Hemp, from The Antelope Sonnets, Toilers of the Hills, and April, A Fable of Love	p. 164
He Was a Country Doctor, from How Could I Be Forgetting	p. 173
Introduction to Ten of his Songs	p. 175
Faces and Places and People	p. 181
Seven Songs	p. 184
State Line to Skid Row	p. 196
The Promised Land, from Our Promised Land	p. 210
Four poems, from Campus Sonnets	p. 222
One poem, from At the End of the Carline	p. 225
An Essay by Anita Helle	p. 227
A note on poetry and seven poems, from Cool Country in Five Young American Poets	p. 233
Five poems, from A Few Poems	p. 239
Pearl Harbor Echoes in Seattle, from Nisei Daughter	p. 243
Bulkeley the P.T. Boat Man, from None More Courageous	p. 259
Note on poetry and five poems, from The Residual Years	p. 271
Two poems	p. 277
One poem	p. 278
Nobody Tells the Truth, from Beyond the Garden Gate	p. 280
from Of Men and Mountains	p. 286
from The Columbia	p. 292
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