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Stewart Hall Holbrook Papers
The collection contains typescripts and drafts of Holbrook's books "The golden age of quackery," 1959, "The Columbia," 1956, "Dreamers of the American Dream," 1957, "The Rocky Mountain revolution," 1956, "300 years in the north woods," 1959, "The old post road," 1962, and miscellaneous shorter works in typescript and printed form. The collection also includes: correspondence with John L. Tower, International Paper Co., 1958-1962, regarding publishing; James Stevens letters and other material regarding Paul Bunyan series, 1928-1929, 1951-1952; correspondence with J. Neilson Barry and copies of historical documents, 1941-1958; correspondence with the Cottage Grove, Oregon, Library regarding Holbrook works located there, 1952-1960; correspondence with Adele R. Johnson regarding her writing and publications, 1936-1940; and general correspondence, ephemera, and research materials.
Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistle Punks
Stewart Holbrook - high-school dropout, logger, journalist, storyteller, and historian - was one of the best-loved figures in the Pacific Northwest during the two decades preceding his death in 1964. This anthology collects two dozen of his best pieces about his adopted home, the Pacific Northwest. Holbrook believed in "lowbrow or non-stuffed shirt history." Holbrook's lowbrow Northwest ranges from British Columbia logging camps to Oregon ranches, and is peopled with fascinating characters like Liverpool Liz of the old Portland waterfront, the over-sexed prophet Joshua II of the Church of the Brides of Christ in Corvallis, and Arthur Boose, the last Wobbly paper boy. Here are stories of forgotten scandals and crimes, forest fires, floods, and other catastrophes, stories of workers, underdogs, scoundrels, dreamers, and fanatics, stories that bring the past to life.
The Story of American Railroads
Richly comprehensive history, featuring more than 100 photographs and contemporary prints. Involving struggles against nature, corrupt politicians, and other obstacles, the colorful account abounds in tales of ingenuity and colossal achievement.
Holy Old Mackinaw
Holy Old Mackinaw is the rough and lusty story of the American lumberjack at work and at play, from Maine to Oregon. In these modern days timber is harvested by cigarette-smoking married men, whose children go to school in buses, but for nearly three hundred years the logger was a real pioneer who ranged through the forests of many states, steel calks in his boots and ax in his fist, a plug of chew handy, who emerged at intervals into the towns to call on soft ladies and drink hard liquor.
The Story of American Railroads
The birth and development of our national railroad system, the men who built it in spite of weather, politicians, desert, and rivals; the ingenuity and inventiveness used to improve constantly devices and techniques in railroading.
The Story of American Railroads
A history of the men who built the American railroad system.
Down on the Farm
Nothing in the American scene has changed so much in the last half-century as country life. The old-time farm as most of us knew it is fast becoming a matter of the past. This book is a portrait of those times, of that vanishing way of life.
