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Blessed with vast expanses of virgin timber, a good harbor, and a San Francisco market for its lumber, the Coos Bay area once dubbed itself "a poor man's paradise." A new Prologue and Epilogue by the author bring this story of gyppo loggers, longshoremen, millwrights, and whistle punks into the twenty-first century, describing Coos Bay's transition from timber town to a retirement and tourist community, where the site of a former Weyerhaeuser complex is now home to the Coquille Indian Tribe's The Mill Casino.

Table of Contents:
Map 1 Coos County, Oregon Map 2 Coos Bay area Prologue to the Revised Edition Preface to the Original Edition Introduction 1) Poor Man's Paradise 2) An Empire Itself 3) The "Big Mill" and Its World 4) Logging the Coos Timber 5) Getting By 6) Surviving the Great Depression 7) The Second World War 8) Lumber Capital of the World 9) Timber Fever 10) Bosses and Workers 11) Hard Times and Survivors Post Mortem: Reflections on the Present Condition Epilogue to the Revised Edition Notes Index

About the Author :
William G. Robbins is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of History at Oregon State University. He is the author of Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story, 1800-1940 and Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940-2000, among other books.

Review :
"Relying heavily on interviews with residents of the Oregon coast, Robbins focuses on the social history of a community and the impact on it of outside forces. He examines workers, work and living conditions, technologies, unemployment, and ways of surviving joblessness. He explores the rise and decline of labor unions and writes of mills--as well as of woods and of small firms (the "gyppos") and the giants such as Weyerhaeuser and Georgia-Pacific." Richard S. Kirkendall, Western Historical Quarterly "Historians will find this study useful in its survey of the southern Oregon timber industry, in its indictment of the unwise exploitation of resources in the West, and ... as a model for a study that can be read and appreciated by those who matter most--the people who are the history." Allan Kent Powell, American Historical Review "Both scholars and general readers will find this book a cogent microcosmic chronicle of Oregon's leading industry told in very human terms." Craig Wollner, Oregon Historical Quarterly


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780295985480
  • Publisher: University of Washington Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Washington Press
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Hard Times in Paradise
  • Weight: 372 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0295985488
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 236
  • Sub Title: Coos Bay, Oregon
  • Width: 152 mm


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