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2003; Oregon Historical Society; Volume: 104; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/ohq.2003.0007

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Judith G. Hall, Charles K. Lee, Gloria Manning, G. Douglas Nicoll, Larry G. Valade,

Archaeology and Natural History

scholarlyessays inthiscollection instead explore history's role in shaping Sutter.The mythos of thegold rush-era entrepreneur isconsidered in pieces byHoward R. Lamar, Albert L. Hurtado, Iris H.W. Engstrand,RichardWhite, and Patricia Nelson Limerick. Chapters from Sutter's diary are also included. Glacial LakeMissoula and Its Humongous Floods, byDavid Alt (Mountain Press, Missoula, Mont., 2001. Photographs, maps, illustrations,glossary,bibliography, index. 208 pages. $15.00 paper) Giant current ripples on arid farmland, mudslide marks on mountainsides, and Mon tanaboulders in the Willamette Valley are all ex plained as the result of an IceAge catastrophe known as the Missoula Floods. Geologist David Alt contends that amassive body ofwater tore open the landscape between modern-day Missoula and thePacificOcean and explainswhy thistheory?and fivehundredmiles ofgeologi cal evidence thatsupports it?is stilleddebated. Dreamer-Prophets oftheColumbia Plateau: Smohalla and Skolaskin,byRobert H. Ruby and John A. Brown (1989; reprint, University of Oklahoma Press/RedRiver Books, Norman, 2002. Photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 257pages. $19.95paper) Robert Ruby and JohnBrown profile two nineteenth-century American Indian spiritual leaders strivingfor salvation in a time of social and cultural stress. In response to the influxof white settlerson theColumbia River, thousands ofNative people in thePacificNorthwest were drawn to theUtopian promise of theDreamer religion, and theDreamer-Prophets Smohalla and Skolaskin emerged as charismatic ? and ul timatelytragic ? luminaries to show the way. Letters To theEditor: The articleabout theBrooklynRoundhouse (OHQ, Summer 2002) was wonderful. The residentsof theCity ofPortland are for tunate tobe theowners of threegreat steam lo comotives. Many younger people are unaware of the"ageof steam"and the importance itplayed inthedevelopment ofour nation.You have helped to educate us about one facet of operating a steam railroad. The many photographs tell a fascinating story.I especially liked the combination of the old and thenew. Wayne Depperman captures the essence of the necessary work going on in the roundhouse today. Thank you for including the photos of women doing jobs thatare traditionallythought of as "men's jobs." Women who worked during WWII got littlerecognitionfortheroles thatthey played in helping towin thewar. My mother helped build submarines for WWII inMani towoc, Wisconsin. Judy Hall, Secretary PacificNorthwest Chapter,National Railway Historical Society,Portland,Oregon To theEditor: Ivery much enjoyed thebiographical article about Barbara Mackenzie [" 'IDidn't Do Any thing Anyone Else Couldn't Have Done': A View ofOregon History through theOrdinary Life of BarbaraMackenzie," OHQ 103:4 (Winter2002)]. Most ofus never become prominent.When his toryconcentrates on the stories of people who become prominent itgivesus a skewed sample of the effectsof events on ordinary people. A story like this,about someone who looks ordinary at first, tends to correct that error. BarbaraMackenzie andThomas T.Mackenzie are listed in the Roseburg Women's Club's Letters 293 Roseburg City directory for 1927as livingat 800 Templin Street, which would be at the south end of theRoseburg citystreet which runson theeast bank of theUmpqua, between theSouthern Pa cificyards and the river. Itwould have been a fairlyrural address, cut offfrom the restof the cityby the railroad yards, and bordered on the west by the river. In 1929Thomas T.Mackenzie appears in the RoseburgNews Review as the supervisor of the school work program at thehigh school, under which 20 boys and 2 girlsworked half time in apprenticeship programs inthecommunity and attended school half time.The programwas sup ported by federalmatching money under the Smith-Hughes law,administered by theFederal Board for Vocational Education. Iwas surprised to learnof such a program inexistencebefore the depression, before the New Deal, and before the explosion of federalfunding for local education, which I thought came about afterSputnik. Thomas T.Mackenzie was also active in the Scottish Rite and acted as timekeeper at high school football games. I am curious if Mackenzie had any connec tion toLloyd Reynolds, the long timeartprofes soratReed College.Mackenzie andReynoldswere both listedas instructorsat thehigh school inthe 1927 Directory, and bothwould have been newly weds, I think. Charles Lee Roseburg,Oregon To theEditor: What a pleasant surprisetoopenmy Fall 2002 issue of the OHQ and find the interviewwith Fermore Craig ["Pickingup theDrum: An Oral History from the Columbia Plateau," OHQ 103:3]. Ifirst met Fermore,my thirdcousin once removed, about twoyears agowhile researching William and Isabel Craig,my thirdgreat-grand parents...