Oregon State University Press

For fifty years, Oregon State University Press has been publishing exceptional books about the Pacific Northwest—its people and landscapes, its flora and fauna, its history and cultural heritage. The Press has played a vital role in the region’s literary life, providing readers with a better understanding of what it means to be an Oregonian. Today, Oregon State University Press publishes distinguished books in several academic areas from environmental history and natural resource management to indigenous studies.

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Land Snails and Slugs of the Pacific Northwest

By Thomas E. Burke; By (photographer) William P. Leonard
Oregon State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2013
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Escaping into Nature

The Making of a Sportsman-Conservationist and Environmental Historian

Oregon State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2013
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Ellie's Log

Exploring the Forest Where the Great Tree Fell

By Judith L. Li; Illustrated by M. L. Herring
Oregon State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2013
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Lincoln and Oregon Country Politics in the Civil War Era

Oregon State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2013
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The Columbia River Treaty Revisited

Transboundary River Governance in the Face of Uncertainty

Edited by Barbara Cosens
Oregon State University Press

The Columbia River Treaty Revisited, with contributions from historians, geographers, environmental scientists, and other experts, facilitates conversation about the impending expiration, aiding efforts to understand changes in the basin since the treaty was passed, to predict future changes, and to determine whether alteration of the treaty is ultimately advisable.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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Voyage of a Summer Sun

Canoeing the Columbia River

By Robin Cody; Afterword by Robin Cody
Oregon State University Press

In Voyage of a Summer Sun, Robin Cody tells the story of his 82-day solo canoe trip down the Columbia River, from its source in Canada to its mouth in Astoria. This first OSU Press edition includes a new afterword by the author.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue

Voices and Images from Sherman Institute

Oregon State University Press

The first collection of writings and images focused on an off-reservation Indian boarding school, The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue shares the fascinating story of this flagship institution. The contributors to the volume tell the story of of how the federal government worked to transform American Indian students into productive farmers, carpenters, homemakers, nurses, cooks, and seamstresses, and how most students survived the agenda of cultural genocide to benefit themselves and the well-being of their communities.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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Standing at the Water's Edge

Bob Straub's Battle for the Soul of Oregon

Oregon State University Press

Standing at the Water's Edge is a personal and political biography of one of Oregon’s unlikeliest political heroes, former Oregon governor Robert W. Straub. The book reveals Straub's warm personal story, along with his secret struggles, including his battle with depression while governor.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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Oregon Geology

Oregon State University Press

This extensively updated sixth edition of The Geology of Oregon provides a comprehensive treatment of the state's geologic history and includes illustrations, an extensive bibliography, and biographical sketches of notable geologists.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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Aurora, Daughter of the Dawn

A Story of New Beginnings

By J. J. Kopp; Illustrated by Clark Moor Will; Foreword by Jane Kirkpatrick
Oregon State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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The Tangled Bank

Writings from Orion

Oregon State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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Multnomah

The Tumultuous Story of Oregon's Most Populous County

Oregon State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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Comrades of the Quest

An Oral History of Reed College

Oregon State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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Asserting Native Resilience

Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Face the Climate Crisis

Oregon State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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To the Promised Land

A History of Government and Politics in Oregon

Oregon State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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Wild Delicate Seconds

29 Wildlife Encounters

Oregon State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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Wet Engine

Exploring the Mad Wild Miracle of the Heart

Oregon State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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Songs of Power and Prayer in the Columbia Plateau

The Jesuit, the Medicine Man, and the Indian Hymn Singer

Oregon State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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Public Lands, Public Debates

A Century of Controversy

Oregon State University Press

Nineteen essays from an environmental historian that explore the U.S. system of public lands, the subject of historical struggle and contemporary debate.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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Oregon Plans

The Making of an Unquiet Land Use Revolution

Oregon State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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Finding the River

An Environmental History of the Elwha

Oregon State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2011
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Wild in the City

Exploring the Intertwine: The Portland-Vancouver Region's Network of Parks, Trails, and Natural Areas

Oregon State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2011
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Wading for Bugs

Exploring Streams with the Experts

Oregon State University Press

Field stories from aquatic biologists that reveal what it’s like to study stream insects and to make discoveries that could help stream health and conservation.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Up the Capitol Steps

A Woman's March to the Governorship

Oregon State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2011
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Oregon Archaeology

Oregon State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2011
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Light on the Devils

Coming of Age on the Klamath

Oregon State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2011
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Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies

Oregon State University Press

The first book to present the life histories of the entire butterfly fauna of a North American geographic region.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Voodoo Vintners

Oregon's Astonishing Biodynamic Winegrowers

Oregon State University Press
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Toward One Oregon

Rural-Urban Interdependence and the Evolution of a State

Oregon State University Press
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Pathfinder

Blazing a New Wilderness Trail in Modern America

Oregon State University Press

Pacific Northwest Trail founder Ron Strickland shares his stories about and from the trail.

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Dragonflies and Damselflies of Oregon

A Field Guide

Oregon State University Press
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Thunder Tree

Lessons from an Urban Wildland

Oregon State University Press
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Potluck

Community on the Edge of Wilderness

Oregon State University Press
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Among Penguins

A Bird Man in Antarctica

Oregon State University Press
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Remembering the Power of Words

The Life of an Oregon Activist, Legislator, and Community Leader

Oregon State University Press
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Where the Crooked River Rises

A High Desert Home

Oregon State University Press
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Mink River

Oregon State University Press
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Discovering Main Street

Travel Adventures in Small Towns of the Northwest

Oregon State University Press

A unique guidebook to exploring small towns, “the last frontier of American tourism."

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No Small Potatoes

How a Family Potato Salad Recipe is Fast Becoming a Billion Dollar Business

Oregon State University Press
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Reflections of a Pragmatic Economist

My Intellectual Journey

Oregon State University Press
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Mexicanos in Oregon

Their Stories, Their Lives

Oregon State University Press
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To the Woods

Sinking Roots, Living Lightly, and Finding True Home

Oregon State University Press

The true story of a couple who, in their late fifties, traded modern conveniences for life in a tent and trailer without electricity or indoor plumbing.

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A River Without Banks

Place and Belonging in the Inland Northwest

Oregon State University Press
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The Lumberman's Frontier

Three Centuries of Land Use, Society, and Change in America's Forests

Oregon State University Press
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A Force for Change

Beatrice Morrow Cannady and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Oregon, 1912-1936

Oregon State University Press

A Force for Change is the first full-length study of the life and work of one of Oregon’s most dynamic civil rights activists, African American journalist Beatrice Morrow Cannady. Between 1912 and 1936, Cannady tirelessly promoted interracial goodwill and fought segregation and discrimination.

She gave hundreds of lectures to high school and college students and shared her message with radio listeners across the Pacific Northwest. She was assistant editor, and later publisher, of The Advocate, Oregon’s largest African American newspaper. Cannady was the first black woman to graduate from law school in Oregon, and the first to run for state representative. She held interracial teas in her home in Northeast Portland and protested repeated showings of the racist film The Birth of a Nation. And when the Ku Klux Klan swept into Oregon, she urged the governor to act quickly to protect black Oregonians’ right to live and work without fear. Despite these accomplishments—and many more during her twenty-five-year career—Beatrice Cannady fell into obscurity when she left Oregon in about 1938.

A Force for Change illuminates Cannady’s important role in advocating for better race relations in Oregon in the early decades of the twentieth century. It describes her encounters with the period’s leading black artists, editors, politicians, and intellectuals, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, A. Philip Randolph, Oscar De Priest, Roland Hayes, and James Weldon Johnson. It dispels the myth that African Americans played little part in Oregon’s history and enriches our understanding of the black experience in Oregon.

A Force for Change is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of women’s history, gender studies, African American history, journalism history, and Pacific Northwest history. It belongs on the shelf of any reader interested in a richer understanding of the civil rights movement in Oregon and across the country.

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Another Way the River Has

Taut True Tales from the Northwest

Oregon State University Press

Cody’s prose rings with a sense of place. He is a native speaker who probes the streams and woods and salmon that run to the heart of what it means to live and love, to work and play, in Oregon.

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