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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.

Lumber trade --- Logging --- Loggers --- History. --- Coos Bay (Or.) --- Buckers (Persons) --- Fallers (Persons) --- Lumberjacks --- Timber buckers (Persons) --- Timber fallers (Persons) --- Forest harvesting --- Pulpwood --- Timber --- Trees --- Lumber industry --- Timber industry --- Harvesting --- City of Coos Bay (Or.) --- Lumbermen --- Lumbering --- Forestry engineering --- Forests and forestry --- Forest products industry --- Marshfield (Or.) --- Empire (Or.) --- Eastside (Or.)

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"The life of prominent Oregon political leader Monroe Sweetland spans the spectrum of 20th-century America. Through seven decades, Sweetland experienced the economic collapse of the Great Depression, the unparalleled violence of a nation at war, the divisiveness of Cold War politics, and the cultural and political turmoil of the Vietnam War. Historian William G. Robbins illuminates the wrenching transformation of American political culture in A Man for All Seasons : Monroe Sweetland and the Liberal Paradox. Racial and economic inequalities motivated much of Sweetland's civic life, including his lifelong memberships in the American Civil Liberties Committee, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Urban League, the Japanese American Citizens League, and the Red Cross, where Sweetland worked repatriating American prisoners of war after Japan's surrender. Robbins' portrait is holistic, exploring Sweetland's socialist beginnings, inconsistencies in his politics--especially during the Cold War--and his regional legacy. He was the most important person in the resurgence of the modern, liberal Oregon Democratic Party from the late 1940s to the 1960s. He joined the National Education Association in 1964 and became the driving force behind the Bilingual Education Act of 1968 and the fight for the age-18 vote, achieved in the ratification of the 26th amendment in 1971. Monroe Sweetland was a nationally prominent figure, whose fights bequeathed to modern America important legislation that shaped its political landscape"--

Political culture --- Liberalism --- Civic leaders --- Legislators --- History --- Sweetland, Monroe, --- National Education Association of the United States --- Democratic Party (Or.) --- Oregon. --- United States --- Oregon --- Politics and government

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Throughout the history of the United States, the concepts of “land” and “the West” have fired the American imagination and fueled controversy. The essays in Land in the American West deal with complex, troublesome, and interrelated questions regarding land: Who owns it? Who has access to it? What happens when private rights infringe upon the public good, or when one ethnic group is pitted against another, or when there is a conflict between economic and environmental values? Many of these questions have deep historical roots. They all have special significance in the modern American West, where natural resources are still abundant and large areas of land are federally owned.

Property --- Right of property --- Public lands --- Common good --- History. --- Good, Common --- Public good --- Lands, Public --- Ownership of property --- Private ownership of property, Right of --- Private property, Right of --- Property, Right of --- Property rights --- Right of private ownership of property --- Right of private property --- Right to property --- Law and legislation --- Political science --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Justice --- Public interest --- Land use --- Public domain --- Crown lands --- Natural resources, Communal --- Civil rights --- Economics --- Possession (Law) --- Things (Law) --- Wealth --- Primitive property