Research Catalog

Title

Crooked River country : wranglers, rogues, and barons / David Braly.

Author

Braly, David.

Publication

Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University Press, c2007.

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Holdings

Details

Description

viii, 331 p. : ill., col. map; 23 cm.

Subject

• 1800-1999
• Frontier and pioneer life > Oregon
• Frontier and pioneer life > Crooked River Region
• Pioneers > Oregon > Biography
• Pioneers > Crooked River Region > Biography
• Oregon > History > 19th century
• Oregon > History > 20th century
• Oregon > History, Local
• Crooked River Region (Or.) > History, Local
• Oregon > Biography
• Crooked River Region (Or.) > Biography

Genre/Form

• Local author.
• Biography
• Biographies.
• History.
• Local history.
• Oregon authors.

Note

• Col. map on folded leaf in pocket.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-308) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Where lies the subject -- For men -- Pilgrims -- Expeditions -- Empty except for indians and gold -- Paulina war -- Roads enter the wilderness -- The monopoly -- Early settlements -- Bannock war -- Blood on the snow -- Reign of the vigilantes -- Rising of the moonshiners -- After the revolution -- Cattle barons -- Sheepmen -- Crook county war -- Edwardian age -- Prosecutions -- Bend becomes a town -- The east leaves, the west grows -- Homesteaders -- Farming towns -- Land bust -- Arrival of Jim Hill -- Bend's giant mills -- The west secedes -- Progressives -- Booming bend and its neighbors -- A small, rural county -- Slow lane of the roaring twenties -- Off the beaten paths -- The great depression -- The new deal -- Sawmills for Prineville -- Home front -- The smokestack age -- Capital of the world.

ISBN

• 9780874222937 (alk. paper)
• 0874222931 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007040502

OCLC

166357740

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library