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- Hard Times in Paradise: Coos Bay, Oregon
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of Washington Press
summary
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
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- Prologue to the Revised Edition
- pp. ix-xvi
- Preface to the Original Edition
- pp. xvii-xx
- 1 / Poor Man's Paradise
- pp. 12-25
- 2/ An Empire Itself
- pp. 26-39
- 3 / The "Big Mill" and Its World
- pp. 40-53
- 4 / Logging the Coos Timber
- pp. 54-67
- 5 / Getting By
- pp. 68-79
- 6 / Surviving the Great Depression
- pp. 80-94
- 7 / The Second World War
- pp. 95-106
- 8 / Lumber Capital of the World
- pp. 107-121
- 9 / Timber Forever
- pp. 122-137
- 10 / Bosses and Workers
- pp. 138-152
- 11 / Hard Times and Survivors
- pp. 153-165
- Epilogue to the Revised Edition
- pp. 172-194
Additional Information
ISBN
9780295803319
Related ISBN(s)
9780295985480
MARC Record
OCLC
852899014
Pages
236
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No