Starting over : Community Building on the Eastern Oregon Frontier (Starting over)

Willingham, William F.

Oregon Historical Society Press（2006/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780875952949
• DDC分類 979.502

Full Description

Prior to the early 1870s, Oregon's Long Creek Valley was an isolated oasis of bunch grass and wildlife surrounded by rugged, heavily timbered mountains. Among the valley's first white settlers, lured by the abundance of grass and water, were William F. Willingham's great-grandparents. During summer visits as a child, he listened to his elderly relatives' stories about growing up on the frontier.

In Starting Over, the author draws on a range of sources to bring to life the people who scratched out a community based on cattle and sheep raising, kinship ties, and shared social values. Willingham shows how the development of Long Creek illuminates key aspects of the story of the last phase of the settling of the American frontier.

Contents

Illustrations, Maps, and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Valley of Grass: Native Use and Early Settlement

2. A Stockman's Paradise: The First Wave of Settlement, 1870s

3. Town-Building on the Frontier: Community Formation and Growth, 1880s-1890s

4. A Homesteader's Life: The Second Wave of Settlement, 1890-1910

5. The Struggle to Maintain Community: Social and Economic Changes, 1900-1920

6. Violence on the Frontier: Social Conflict, 1875-1925

Epilogue

Appendix

Notes

Bibliographic Essay

Index