Unfairly forgotten primo northwest writer who has an unsparing eye and a sensitive bs detector. Stewart holbrooks lowbrow northwest northwest reprints. Holbrook believed in lowbrow or nonstuffed shirt history. A popular regional writer of the pacific northwest who fell into. His writings focused on what he called the far corner.
The following works deal with the cultural, political, economic, military, biographical and. A popular regional writer of the pacific northwest who fell into obscurity after his death, holbrook 18931964 gets a lively repackaging of his work in this collection of 26 pieces drawn from his journalism and his books. Funny, exciting, poignant and highly recommended, especially if. This anthology collects two dozen of his best pieces about his adopted home, the pacific northwest. On a silver desert on a silver desert the life of ernest haycox by foreword by ernest haycox jr. Chosen by portland magazine as one of the 20 greatest oregon books ever and by the oregonian as one of the top ten northwest history books, wildmen helped revive interest in holbrook and his lowbrow or non.
To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Columbia logging camps to oregon ranches, and is peopled with fascinating characters like liverpool liz. An early proponent of conservationism, holbrook believed. Stewart hall holbrook 18931964 was an american logger, writer, and popular historian. Holbrook went west from his native vermont in 1920 and worked in logging camps before discovering his vocation as a writer. Stewart holbrook highschool dropout, logger, journalist, storyteller, and historian was one of the. Stewart holbrook s lowbrow northwest northwest reprints.
Stewart holbrook s lowbrow northwest by brian booth. Its history and builders, 1911 and centennial history of oregon, 18111912, 1912. Stewart holbrook s lowbrow northwest northwest reprints booth, brian on. Fantastic book full of obscure pacific nw history that would certainly turn a few heads. Stewart holbrook s lowbrow northwest by brian booth pp.
Access oregon pdf the port of portland by the people. A textbook on city school administration based on a concrete. Browse the amazon editors picks for the best books of 2019, featuring our. Loggers and anarchists, murderers and crazies, all here, all beautifully explicated. Stewart holbrooks lowbrow northwest northwest reprints booth, brian on. A selfproclaimed lowbrow historian, his topics included ethan allen, the railroads, the timber industry, the wobblies, and eccentrics of the pacific northwest. Its history and builders in connection with the antecedent explorations, discoveries. The wobblies, as they were universally identified, had already drawn blood in puget sound and stirred fear and violent reprisal in many other parts of the west, and were at the peak of their brief power that summer of 1917.
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