{"product_id":"reading-portland-9780295986777","title":"Reading Portland","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"John Trombold and Peter Donahue's \u003ci\u003eReading Portland\u003c\/i\u003e: The City in Prose could be used as an urban history of the Rose City; but more effectively, it is a celebration of Portland's urban life..This collection of authors is superior to any other urban anthologies I have found. I cannot help but wonder if Trombold and Donahue envision a City in Prose series..I anxious await Reading Chicago, Reading Boston, and Reading Las Vegas.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Columbia *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A]ny literate person who loves Portland will enjoy and profit from the readings in this book. \u003ci\u003eReading Portland\u003c\/i\u003e is an investigation of the nature of a place, an inductive exploration into the character of a city done with an instrument called prose. Any Portlander who loves this city should have \u003ci\u003eReading Portland\u003c\/i\u003e on his or her shelf in order to read and reread tales of the tribe that lives at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Oregon Historical Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It is the author's diversity of sentiment, style, and time period which creates an interesting and varied perspective on Portland, and ultimately gives the reader great insight into the city's history.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Portland Mercury *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Pull of the Rivers: A Preface, by Peter Donahue \/ xv\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \/ xxi\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eReading Portland\u003c\/i\u003e: An Introduction, by John Trombold \/ xxiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Portland: Muddy Streets and Destiny\u003cbr\u003e MATTHEW DEADY \/ 3\u003cbr\u003e Portland-on-Wallamet\u003cbr\u003e HARVEY W. SCOTT \/ 6\u003cbr\u003e From History of Portland\u003cbr\u003e Position and Advantages of Portland\u003cbr\u003e Settlement and Early Times\u003cbr\u003e JANET STEVENSON \/ 10\u003cbr\u003e From Departure\u003cbr\u003e The Third Month\u003cbr\u003e The Fourth Month\u003cbr\u003e The Fifth Month\u003cbr\u003e ROBERT ORMOND CASE \/ 20\u003cbr\u003e From Empire Builders\u003cbr\u003e 1850—Interlude\u003cbr\u003e Once to Every Warrior\u003cbr\u003e ALFRED POWERS \/ 28\u003cbr\u003e From Long Way to Frisco\u003cbr\u003e THERESA TRUCHOT \/ 31\u003cbr\u003e From Charcoal Wagon Boy\u003cbr\u003e Smuggler Catchers\u003cbr\u003e ERNEST HAYCOX \/ 34\u003cbr\u003e From The Long Storm\u003cbr\u003e MALCOLM CLARK JR. \/ 40\u003cbr\u003e The War on the Webfoot Saloon\u003cbr\u003e STEWART HOLBROOK \/ 50\u003cbr\u003e The Three Sirens of Portland\u003cbr\u003e RUDYARD KIPLING \/ 56\u003cbr\u003e From From Sea to Sea\u003cbr\u003e JOAQUIN MILLER \/ 59\u003cbr\u003e From Memorie and Rime\u003cbr\u003e The New and the Old\u003cbr\u003e JOEL REDON \/ 62\u003cbr\u003e From The Road to Zena\u003cbr\u003e E. KIMBARK MACCOLL \/ 66\u003cbr\u003e From The Shaping of a City\u003cbr\u003e A Wide Angle View\u003cbr\u003e STEPHEN DOUGLAS PUTER \/ 71\u003cbr\u003e From Looters of the Public Domain\u003cbr\u003e History of the Picture that Elected Hermann to Congress\u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS \/ 74\u003cbr\u003e The Life Story of a Japanese Servant\u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS \/ 78\u003cbr\u003e The Portland Exposition\u003cbr\u003e JAMES STEVENS \/ 85\u003cbr\u003e From Big Jim Turner\u003cbr\u003e Little Pretty and the Seven Bulls\u003cbr\u003e STEVEN LOWENSTEIN \/ 98\u003cbr\u003e From The Jews of Oregon\u003cbr\u003e The Story of Aaron and Jeanette Meier\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModern Portland: The Rose City\u003cbr\u003e CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD \/ 105\u003cbr\u003e Portland’s Feast of Roses\u003cbr\u003e LOUISE BRYANT \/ 112\u003cbr\u003e Two Judges\u003cbr\u003e EVELYN MCDANIEL GIBB \/ 114\u003cbr\u003e From Two Wheels North\u003cbr\u003e BARBARA BARTLETT HARTWELL \/ 120\u003cbr\u003e The Wood Household\u003cbr\u003e JOHN REED \/ 126\u003cbr\u003e Almost Thirty\u003cbr\u003e ALAN CHEUSE \/ 132\u003cbr\u003e From The Bohemians\u003cbr\u003e ALAN HART \/ 147\u003cbr\u003e From Doctor Mallory\u003cbr\u003e SANDY POLISHUK \/ 152\u003cbr\u003e From Sticking to the Union\u003cbr\u003e MICHAEL MUNK \/ 160\u003cbr\u003e Portland’s “Silk Stocking Mob”\u003cbr\u003e LAURENCE PRATT \/ 168\u003cbr\u003e From I Remember Portland\u003cbr\u003e Chinatown\u003cbr\u003e Bicycle\u003cbr\u003e JAMES BEARD \/ 172\u003cbr\u003e From Delights and Prejudices\u003cbr\u003e NANCY NOON KENDALL \/ 181\u003cbr\u003e From The Wise in Heart\u003cbr\u003e MARY BARNARD \/ 191\u003cbr\u003e From Assault on Mount Helicon\u003cbr\u003e BEVERLY CLEARY \/ 201\u003cbr\u003e From A Girl from Yamhill\u003cbr\u003e High School Freshmen\u003cbr\u003e Wise Fools\u003cbr\u003e Love and the Spelling Bee\u003cbr\u003e CLYDE RICE \/ 210\u003cbr\u003e From Nordi’s Gift\u003cbr\u003e TOM MCALLISTER and DAVID B. MARSHALL \/ 215\u003cbr\u003e Hometown\u003cbr\u003e ELIZABETH MCLAGAN \/ 219\u003cbr\u003e From A Peculiar Paradise\u003cbr\u003e Sober, Industrious, and Honest\u003cbr\u003e KATHRYN HALL BOGLE \/ 225\u003cbr\u003e An American Negro Speaks of Color\u003cbr\u003e AUGUSTA CLAWSON \/ 230\u003cbr\u003e From Shipyard Diary of a Woman Welder\u003cbr\u003e JOHN OKADA \/ 237\u003cbr\u003e From No-No Boy\u003cbr\u003e LAWSON FUSAO INADA \/ 247\u003cbr\u003e The Flower Girls\u003cbr\u003e MARIE ROSE WONG \/ 258\u003cbr\u003e From Sweet Cakes, Long Journey\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePortland Proper: Neighborhoods,\u003cbr\u003e Activists, Nature, and Beer\u003cbr\u003e ROBERT DIETSCHE \/ 265\u003cbr\u003e Where Jump Was a Noun\u003cbr\u003e DON CARPENTER \/ 274\u003cbr\u003e From The Class of ’49\u003cbr\u003e May Fete Day\u003cbr\u003e RICHARD NEUBERGER \/ 280\u003cbr\u003e My Hometown Is Good Enough for Me\u003cbr\u003e PHIL STANFORD \/ 287\u003cbr\u003e From Portland Confidential\u003cbr\u003e Back to Business as Usual\u003cbr\u003e The Tantalizing Candy Renee\u003cbr\u003e Hot Times at the Desert Room\u003cbr\u003e GARY SNYDER \/ 292\u003cbr\u003e From The Practice of the Wild\u003cbr\u003e The Same Old Song and Dance\u003cbr\u003e PAUL PINTARICH \/ 293\u003cbr\u003e From History By the Glass\u003cbr\u003e MIKAL GILMORE \/ 304\u003cbr\u003e From Shot in the Heart\u003cbr\u003e Settling Down\u003cbr\u003e Strangers\u003cbr\u003e KIM STAFFORD \/ 314\u003cbr\u003e The Separate Hearth\u003cbr\u003e SHANA ALEXANDER \/ 321\u003cbr\u003e From Astonishing Elephant\u003cbr\u003e The Elephant’s Child\u003cbr\u003e RUTH BARNETT and DOUG BAKER \/ 329\u003cbr\u003e From They Weep on My Doorstep\u003cbr\u003e ALBERT DRAKE \/ 336\u003cbr\u003e From One Summer\u003cbr\u003e Lost Lake\u003cbr\u003e Scotch Broom\u003cbr\u003e Smells\u003cbr\u003e At the Branch\u003cbr\u003e URSULA K. LEGUIN \/ 343\u003cbr\u003e From The Lathe of Heaven\u003cbr\u003e KENNETH STERN \/ 353\u003cbr\u003e From Loud Hawk\u003cbr\u003e A Bullet in a Guy’s Head\u003cbr\u003e ALEXANDER PATTERSON \/ 358\u003cbr\u003e Terrasquirma and the Engines of Social Change in 1970s Portland\u003cbr\u003e ED EDMO \/ 367\u003cbr\u003e After Celilo\u003cbr\u003e RICHARD HUGO \/ 371\u003cbr\u003e From Death and the Good Life\u003cbr\u003e JEWEL LANSING \/ 384\u003cbr\u003e From Deadly Games in City Hall\u003cbr\u003e LOUIS MASSON \/ 390\u003cbr\u003e From the Wheelhouse of the Western Cougar\u003cbr\u003e DAVID JAMES DUNCAN \/ 395\u003cbr\u003e From The River Why\u003cbr\u003e Little, But Strong\u003cbr\u003e Closing the Door\u003cbr\u003e WALT CURTIS \/ 402\u003cbr\u003e From Mala Noche and Other “Illegal” Adventures\u003cbr\u003e Immigrants\u003cbr\u003e Notes on the Mexican Kids\u003cbr\u003e DANIEL CHACÓN \/ 409\u003cbr\u003e From Chicano Chicanery\u003cbr\u003e Aztlan, Oregon\u003cbr\u003e DOUGLAS COUPLAND \/ 420\u003cbr\u003e From Generation X\u003cbr\u003e MTV Not Bullets\u003cbr\u003e Transform\u003cbr\u003e Welcome Home from Vietnam, Son\u003cbr\u003e ROBIN CODY \/ 427\u003cbr\u003e From Voyage of a Summer Sun\u003cbr\u003e The Urban Waterway\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM LEAST HEAT MOON \/ 433\u003cbr\u003e From River-Horse\u003cbr\u003e Robot of the River\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Portland: Scenes and Reflections\u003cbr\u003e ELINOR LANGER \/ 439\u003cbr\u003e From A Hundred Little Hitlers\u003cbr\u003e The Death of Mulugeta Seraw\u003cbr\u003e Underground\u003cbr\u003e SUSAN ORLEAN \/ 445\u003cbr\u003e Figures in a Mall\u003cbr\u003e ED GOLDBERG \/ 454\u003cbr\u003e From Dead Air\u003cbr\u003e KATHERINE DUNN \/ 463\u003cbr\u003e From Truck\u003cbr\u003e LEE WILLIAMS \/ 468\u003cbr\u003e From After Nirvana\u003cbr\u003e CARL ABBOTT \/ 473\u003cbr\u003e From Greater Portland\u003cbr\u003e Ramona Quimby’s Portland: The Nicest City Possible?\u003cbr\u003e DAN NEWTH \/ 481\u003cbr\u003e Chillin’\u003cbr\u003e JAN MORRIS \/ 482\u003cbr\u003e The Other Portland\u003cbr\u003e PHILLIP MARGOLIN \/ 486\u003cbr\u003e From Ties That Bind\u003cbr\u003e APRIL HENRY \/ 491\u003cbr\u003e From Buried Diamonds\u003cbr\u003e MARTHA GIES \/ 495\u003cbr\u003e From Up All Night\u003cbr\u003e Obdulia at the Rose Garden\u003cbr\u003e KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE \/ 501\u003cbr\u003e From Riverwalking\u003cbr\u003e The Willamette\u003cbr\u003e DONALD MILLER \/ 503\u003cbr\u003e From Blue Like Jazz\u003cbr\u003e Shifts\u003cbr\u003e CHUCK PALAHNIUK \/ 508\u003cbr\u003e From Fugitives and Refugees\u003cbr\u003e Getting Off: How to Knock Off a Piece in Portland\u003cbr\u003e xii READING PORTLAND\u003cbr\u003e MATTHEW STADLER \/ 512\u003cbr\u003e From The Stranger\u003cbr\u003e Brown at the Edges with a Chewy White Center\u003cbr\u003e SALLIE TISDALE \/ 518\u003cbr\u003e Portland from the Air\u003cbr\u003e ELIZABETH WOODY \/ 524\u003cbr\u003e Buckskin\u003cbr\u003e MIRANDA BEVERLY-WHITTEMORE \/ 526\u003cbr\u003e From The Effects of Light\u003cbr\u003e PETER ROCK \/ 530\u003cbr\u003e From The Bewildered\u003cbr\u003e KEVIN CANTY \/ 537\u003cbr\u003e From Winslow in Love\u003cbr\u003e DAVID OATES \/ 541\u003cbr\u003e From City Limits: Walking Portland’s Boundary\u003cbr\u003e Boots on the Ground in Sherwood Forest\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Bibliography \/ 549\u003cbr\u003e Citations and Permissions \/ 563\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MV - University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515395531095,"sku":"9780295986777","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reading-portland-9780295986777","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}