The Pacific Northwest: An Interpretive History

by Schwantes, Carlos Arnaldo

• ISBN13: 9780803292284
• ISBN10: 0803292287
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes has revised and expanded the entire work, which is still the most comprehensive and balanced history of the region. This edition contains significant additional material on early mining in the Pacific Northwest, sea routes to Oregon in the early discovery and contact period, the environment of the region, the impact of the Klondike gold rush, and politics since 1945. Recent environmental controversies, such as endangered salmon runs and the spotted owl dispute, have been addressed, as has the effect of the Cold War on the region's economy. The author has also expanded discussion of the roles of women and minorities and updated statistical information. Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes is a professor in the Department of History, and director of the Institute for Pacific Northwest Study, at the University of Idaho. He is the author of a number of books, includingHard Traveling: A Portrait of Work Life in the New Northwest(Nebraska 1995).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xiii
Preface to the Revised Edition	xvii
Preface to the First Edition	xxi
A Sense of Place: The Essential Pacific Northwest	1	(24)
PART I Isolation and Empire
Profile The Third Voyage of Captain James Cook	19	(6)
The First Pacific Northwesterners	25	(16)
Encounters with a Distant Land	41	(12)
Continental Dreams and Fur Empires	53	(38)
PART II The Pioneers' Northwest
Profile The Whitman Tragedy at Waiilatpu	83	(8)
Bound for the Promised Land	91	(19)
Oregon Country: Rearranging the Political Landscape	110	(14)
Growing Pains: New Territories, Gold Fever, and a Civil War	124	(19)
Holes in the Social Fabric	143	(36)
PART III From Frontier to Urban-Industrial Society
Profile Henry Villard and the Last Spike	169	(10)
Metropolitan Corridors: Forging New Transportation Links	179	(21)
The Stumps of Enterprise: A Natural Resource--Based Economy	200	(25)
A Quickening Pace of Life: Immigration and Urban Growth	225	(26)
A Time of Testing: Omnibus States and the Excesses of the 1890s	251	(20)
Removing the Rough Edges: Society, Education, and Culture	271	(16)
Envisioning a New Northwest	287	(39)
PART IV Progress and Its Discontents
Profile The World of May Arkwright Hutton	315	(11)
Commonwealth of Toil	326	(19)
Adjustments: Progressivism and World War I	345	(18)
Birth of the Modern	363	(18)
Depression Decade	381	(27)
PART V The Pacific Northwest Comes of Age
Profile Tom McCall of Oregon	399	(9)
From World War to Cold War	408	(21)
Roller-Coaster Years	429	(25)
The Politics of Anxiety and Affluence	454	(23)
Environment at Risk	477	(26)
Epilogue Redefining the Pacific Northwest	503	(20)
Appendix The Pacific Northwest: A Statistical Portrait	523	(8)
Suggestions for Further Reading	531	(30)
Index	561