Back Matter

Contributors Bryan Aalberg, whose familyhas been inOregon forgenerations, holds a bachelor's degree inhistory fromtheUniversity ofPortland,where hewas amember of Phi Alpha Theta, thehistoryhonorary society.His article on Oaks Park isderived fromhis senior thesis, which won theSenior Thesis Award. Cain Allen isa doctoral candidate intheDepartment ofGeography at the University ofBritishColumbia. He has amaster's degree inhistory fromPortland StateUniversity and is currently working as a researcher in theOregon Historical Society's Education Department. William L. Lang isProfessor ofHistory at Portland StateUniversity and former director of theCenter forColumbia RiverHistory in Vancouver,Washington. He isthe author ofmany books and articles about thePacificNorthwest and theColumbia River Basin, including "BigWater, Great River: TwoWays of Looking at theColumbia," in Landscapes and Communities on thePacific Rim, edited byKaren Gaul and Jackie Hilz (M.E. Sharpe, 2000). Jennifer Ott holds amaster's degree inhistory from theUniversity ofMontana. She has worked inmuseum education inAmana, Iowa, and Seattle, Washington, and has contributed tohistorylink.org,an online encyclopedia of Seattle,King County, and Wash ington statehistory.She iscurrentlyexploring creatinghistoricalmarkers documenting Washington's environmental historyprior toEuro-American settlement. StephenWoolworth isanAssistantVisiting Professor in theSchool ofEducation at Pacific Lutheran University of Tacoma, Washington. He teaches in the areas of educa tional foundations, educational leadership, social policy and practice, and research and evaluation. New frontOHS Press Range of Glaciers The Exploration and Surveyof theNorthern Cascade Range By Fred Beckey The first comprehensive account of the 19th-century explora tion and survey of theNorthern Cascades, Range ofGlaciers presents a wide range ofmaterials from dozens of archives and includes a variety of voices from first-person narratives. The story is ofmultiple overlays of discovery and conquest: Euro pean and American explorers and sea captains, fur traders, railroad builders, surveyors of international boundaries, settlers, gold prospectors, mountaineers, timber barons, tourists, and the Forest Service and National Park administra tions. Natural History & Environment 2003 568 pp., 56 illus., 18maps, 7" x 10" $40.00 cloth ISBN 0-87595-243-7 AvailableFall 2003 Oregon Geographic Names Seventh Edition ByLewisA. McArthur Photo by Terry Toedtemeier and Lewis L.McArthur An Oregon classic since 1928, Oregon Geographic Names is a comprehensive reference to place names throughout the state. The seventh edition is significantly expanded, with more than 6,200 headings, arranged alphabetically. Each entry lists the county where the place is located and reports what isknown about the origin and meaning of the name. A CD that accompanies the book holds complete biographical and geographical indexes and maps that show the locations of over 1,600 place names, primarily historic post offices. Reference 2003 1056 pp, 10 illus., 2 maps, 6" x 9" CD, PC and Mac compatible, maps, indexes $60.00 cloth, ISBN 0-87595-248-8 (book & CD) $30.00 paper, ISBN 0-87595-277-1 (book & CD) BOregon Historical Society Press 1200 S.W. Park Avenue Portland, Oregon 97205 www.ohs.org 503-306-5233 Distributed by theUniversity of Washington Press Evan Schneider,photographer Alfred Sully, Fort Vancouver, Columbia River, 1874 Oil on canvas, 17 x 22.5 in. OHS Museum collections, ace. no. 83-79.1.1.2 As we learn in this issue, an understanding of landscape and place is often essential to understanding the past. Through many of his paintings, artist James Everett Stuart (1852-1941) documented the Oregon landscape, including the Columbia River Gorge and the great volcanoes of theCascades. He was interested in the lives of the Indians who lived in theGorge, and many ofhis paintings ? including Indian Camp on theColumbia near Celilo ? document Native families, villages, and activities on the banks of the river. Stuart, who was the grandson of painter Gilbert Stuart, moved toOregon in 1881, where he opened a studio inPortland's Union Block. During his almost ten years there and inhis many trips back toOregon aftermoving toChicago and then San Francisco, Stuart continued tofind inspiration in the Pacific Northwest landscape. The landscape also captured Alfred Sully (1820-1879), who came to FortVancouver as its commander in 1874.A graduate of West Point and the son ofThomas Sully, a prominent portrait artist, Sully was a self-taught painter who recorded the landscapes, seascapes, and wildlife of the various posts where he served. Fort Vancouver, Columbia River, which shows the fort'sdock to the...