Environment and Experience : Settlement Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oregon / Peter G. Boag.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boag, Peter G., Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The pioneer battling with a hostile environment--whether it be arid land, drought, dust storms, dense forests, or harsh winters--is a staple of western American history. In this innovative, multi-disciplinary work, Peter Boag takes issue with the image of the settler against the frontier, arguing that settlers viewed their new surroundings positively and attempted to create communities in harmony with the landscape. Using Oregon's Calapooia Valley as a case study, Boag presents a history of both land and people that shows the process of change as settlers populated the land and turned it to their own uses. By combining local sources, ranging from letters and diaries to early maps and local histories, and drawing upon the methods of geography, natural history, and literary analysis, Boag has created a richly detailed grass-roots portrait of a frontier community. Most significantly, he analyzes the connections among environmental, cultural, and social changes in ways that illuminate the frontier experience throughout the American west. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE: A Landscape and Its People

CHAPTER I. Valley of the Long Grasses

CHAPTER II. Life and Culture on an Old Landscape: Cis-Appalachian Antecedents

PART TWO: Living in a New Land

CHAPTER III. Material Culture: Settling the Calapooia Foothills

CHAPTER IV. Aesthetics: Responding to the Calapooia Landscape

PART THREE: New Meaning for a New Land

CHAPTER V. Early Economic, Attitudinal, and Environmental Change on the Calapooia

CHAPTER VI. Changes in Landscape, Changes in Meaning: Settling the Calapooia Plains

CHAPTER VII. Life and Reflection on a Transformed Landscape

Notes

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520311145

0520311140

OCLC:

1229162000