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Table of Contents

The Pull of the Rivers: A Preface, by Peter Donahue / xv

Acknowledgments / xxi

Reading Portland: An Introduction, by John Trombold / xxiii

Early Portland: Muddy Streets and Destiny

MATTHEW DEADY / 3

Portland-on-Wallamet

HARVEY W. SCOTT / 6

From History of Portland

Position and Advantages of Portland

Settlement and Early Times

JANET STEVENSON / 10

From Departure

The Third Month

The Fourth Month

The Fifth Month

ROBERT ORMOND CASE / 20

From Empire Builders

1850—Interlude

Once to Every Warrior

ALFRED POWERS / 28

From Long Way to Frisco

THERESA TRUCHOT / 31

From Charcoal Wagon Boy

Smuggler Catchers

ERNEST HAYCOX / 34

From The Long Storm

MALCOLM CLARK JR. / 40

The War on the Webfoot Saloon

STEWART HOLBROOK / 50

The Three Sirens of Portland

RUDYARD KIPLING / 56

From From Sea to Sea

JOAQUIN MILLER / 59

From Memorie and Rime

The New and the Old

JOEL REDON / 62

From The Road to Zena

E. KIMBARK MACCOLL / 66

From The Shaping of a City

A Wide Angle View

STEPHEN DOUGLAS PUTER / 71

From Looters of the Public Domain

History of the Picture that Elected Hermann to Congress

ANONYMOUS / 74

The Life Story of a Japanese Servant

ANONYMOUS / 78

The Portland Exposition

JAMES STEVENS / 85

From Big Jim Turner

Little Pretty and the Seven Bulls

STEVEN LOWENSTEIN / 98

From The Jews of Oregon

The Story of Aaron and Jeanette Meier

Modern Portland: The Rose City

CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD / 105

Portland’s Feast of Roses

LOUISE BRYANT / 112

Two Judges

EVELYN MCDANIEL GIBB / 114

From Two Wheels North

BARBARA BARTLETT HARTWELL / 120

The Wood Household

JOHN REED / 126

Almost Thirty

ALAN CHEUSE / 132

From The Bohemians

ALAN HART / 147

From Doctor Mallory

SANDY POLISHUK / 152

From Sticking to the Union

MICHAEL MUNK / 160

Portland’s “Silk Stocking Mob”

LAURENCE PRATT / 168

From I Remember Portland

Chinatown

Bicycle

JAMES BEARD / 172

From Delights and Prejudices

NANCY NOON KENDALL / 181

From The Wise in Heart

MARY BARNARD / 191

From Assault on Mount Helicon

BEVERLY CLEARY / 201

From A Girl from Yamhill

High School Freshmen

Wise Fools

Love and the Spelling Bee

CLYDE RICE / 210

From Nordi’s Gift

TOM MCALLISTER and DAVID B. MARSHALL / 215

Hometown

ELIZABETH MCLAGAN / 219

From A Peculiar Paradise

Sober, Industrious, and Honest

KATHRYN HALL BOGLE / 225

An American Negro Speaks of Color

AUGUSTA CLAWSON / 230

From Shipyard Diary of a Woman Welder

JOHN OKADA / 237

From No-No Boy

LAWSON FUSAO INADA / 247

The Flower Girls

MARIE ROSE WONG / 258

From Sweet Cakes, Long Journey

Portland Proper: Neighborhoods,

Activists, Nature, and Beer

ROBERT DIETSCHE / 265

Where Jump Was a Noun

DON CARPENTER / 274

From The Class of ’49

May Fete Day

RICHARD NEUBERGER / 280

My Hometown Is Good Enough for Me

PHIL STANFORD / 287

From Portland Confidential

Back to Business as Usual

The Tantalizing Candy Renee

Hot Times at the Desert Room

GARY SNYDER / 292

From The Practice of the Wild

The Same Old Song and Dance

PAUL PINTARICH / 293

From History By the Glass

MIKAL GILMORE / 304

From Shot in the Heart

Settling Down

Strangers

KIM STAFFORD / 314

The Separate Hearth

SHANA ALEXANDER / 321

From Astonishing Elephant

The Elephant’s Child

RUTH BARNETT and DOUG BAKER / 329

From They Weep on My Doorstep

ALBERT DRAKE / 336

From One Summer

Lost Lake

Scotch Broom

Smells

At the Branch

URSULA K. LEGUIN / 343

From The Lathe of Heaven

KENNETH STERN / 353

From Loud Hawk

A Bullet in a Guy’s Head

ALEXANDER PATTERSON / 358

Terrasquirma and the Engines of Social Change in 1970s Portland

ED EDMO / 367

After Celilo

RICHARD HUGO / 371

From Death and the Good Life

JEWEL LANSING / 384

From Deadly Games in City Hall

LOUIS MASSON / 390

From the Wheelhouse of the Western Cougar

DAVID JAMES DUNCAN / 395

From The River Why

Little, But Strong

Closing the Door

WALT CURTIS / 402

From Mala Noche and Other “Illegal” Adventures

Immigrants

Notes on the Mexican Kids

DANIEL CHACÓN / 409

From Chicano Chicanery

Aztlan, Oregon

DOUGLAS COUPLAND / 420

From Generation X

MTV Not Bullets

Transform

Welcome Home from Vietnam, Son

ROBIN CODY / 427

From Voyage of a Summer Sun

The Urban Waterway

WILLIAM LEAST HEAT MOON / 433

From River-Horse

Robot of the River

Contemporary Portland: Scenes and Reflections

ELINOR LANGER / 439

From A Hundred Little Hitlers

The Death of Mulugeta Seraw

Underground

SUSAN ORLEAN / 445

Figures in a Mall

ED GOLDBERG / 454

From Dead Air

KATHERINE DUNN / 463

From Truck

LEE WILLIAMS / 468

From After Nirvana

CARL ABBOTT / 473

From Greater Portland

Ramona Quimby’s Portland: The Nicest City Possible?

DAN NEWTH / 481

Chillin’

JAN MORRIS / 482

The Other Portland

PHILLIP MARGOLIN / 486

From Ties That Bind

APRIL HENRY / 491

From Buried Diamonds

MARTHA GIES / 495

From Up All Night

Obdulia at the Rose Garden

KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE / 501

From Riverwalking

The Willamette

DONALD MILLER / 503

From Blue Like Jazz

Shifts

CHUCK PALAHNIUK / 508

From Fugitives and Refugees

Getting Off: How to Knock Off a Piece in Portland

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MATTHEW STADLER / 512

From The Stranger

Brown at the Edges with a Chewy White Center

SALLIE TISDALE / 518

Portland from the Air

ELIZABETH WOODY / 524

Buckskin

MIRANDA BEVERLY-WHITTEMORE / 526

From The Effects of Light

PETER ROCK / 530

From The Bewildered

KEVIN CANTY / 537

From Winslow in Love

DAVID OATES / 541

From City Limits: Walking Portland’s Boundary

Boots on the Ground in Sherwood Forest

Selected Bibliography / 549

Citations and Permissions / 563

About the Author

John Trombold teaches at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. Peter Donahue teaches at Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama and is the author of many short stories and books, including the novel Madison House. Together, they edited Reading Seattle: The City in Prose.

Reviews

"John Trombold and Peter Donahue's Reading Portland: The City in Prose could be used as an urban history of the Rose City; but more effectively, it is a celebration of Portland's urban life..This collection of authors is superior to any other urban anthologies I have found. I cannot help but wonder if Trombold and Donahue envision a City in Prose series..I anxious await Reading Chicago, Reading Boston, and Reading Las Vegas."
*Columbia*

"[A]ny literate person who loves Portland will enjoy and profit from the readings in this book. Reading Portland is an investigation of the nature of a place, an inductive exploration into the character of a city done with an instrument called prose. Any Portlander who loves this city should have Reading Portland on his or her shelf in order to read and reread tales of the tribe that lives at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers."
*Oregon Historical Quarterly*

"It is the author's diversity of sentiment, style, and time period which creates an interesting and varied perspective on Portland, and ultimately gives the reader great insight into the city's history."
*Portland Mercury*

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