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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Stubborn Twig

Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family

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Catching the Ebb

Drift-Fishing for Life in Cook Inlet

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Strand

An Odyssey of Pacific Ocean Debris

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Wild Beauty

Photography of the Columbia River Gorge, 1860-1960

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Beauty of the City

A.E. Doyle, Portland's Architect

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Pedaling Revolution

How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities

Oregon State University Press

Updated Edition includes a new epilogue by the author

In a world of increasing traffic congestion, a grassroots movement is carving out a niche for bicycles on city streets. Pedaling Revolution explores the growing bike culture that is changing the look and feel of cities, suburbs, and small towns across North America.

From traffic-dodging bike messengers to tattooed teenagers on battered bikes, from riders in spandex to well-dressed executives, ordinary citizens are becoming transportation revolutionaries. Jeff Mapes traces the growth of bicycle advocacy and explores the environmental, safety, and health aspects of bicycling. He rides with bicycle advocates who are taming the streets of New York City, joins the street circus that is Critical Mass in San Francisco, and gets inspired by the every-day folk pedaling in Amsterdam, the nirvana of American bike activists. Chapters focused on big cities, college towns, and America’s most successful bike city, Portland, show how cyclists, with the encouragement of local officials, are claiming a share of the valuable streetscape.

“A growing number of Americans, mounted on their bicycles like some new kind of urban cowboy, are mixing it up with swift, two-ton motor vehicles as they create a new society on the streets. They’re finding physical fitness, low-cost transportation, environmental purity—and, still all too often, Wild West risks of sudden death or injury.” —from the introduction

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Water in the 21st-Century West

A High Country News Reader

Oregon State University Press
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Nature’s Justice

Writings of William O. Douglas

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The Environmental Justice

William O. Douglass and American Conservation

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The Way of the Woods

Journeys Through American Forests

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Afield

Forty Years of Birding the American West

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Eden Within Eden

Oregon's Utopian Heritage

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Living with Bugs

Least-Toxic Solutions to Everyday Bug Problems

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Handbook of Oregon Birds

A Field Companion to Birds of Oregon

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Davis Country

H.L. Davis's Northwest

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Massacred for Gold

The Chinese in Hells Canyon

Oregon State University Press

In 1887, more than 30 Chinese gold miners were massacred on the Oregon side of Hells Canyon, the deepest canyon in North America. Massacred for Gold, the first authoritative account of the unsolved crime—one of the worst of the many crimes committed by whites against Chinese laborers in the American West—unearths the evidence that points to an improbable gang of rustlers and schoolboys, one only 15, as the killers.

The crime was discovered weeks after it happened, but no charges were brought for nearly a year, when gang member Frank Vaughan, son of a well-known settler family, confessed and turned state’s evidence. Six men and boys, all from northeastern Oregon’s remote Wallowa country, were charged—but three fled, and the others were found innocent by a jury that a witness admitted had little interest in convicting anyone. A cover-up followed, and the crime was all but forgotten for the next 100 years, until a county clerk found hidden records in an unused safe.

In bringing this story out of the shadows, Nokes examines the once-substantial presence of Chinese laborers in the interior Pacific Northwest, describing why they came, how their efforts contributed to the region’s development, and how too often mistreatment and abuse were their only reward.

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Refusing War, Affirming Peace

The History of Civilian Public Service Camp #21 at Cascade Locks

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River Basins of the American West

A High Country News Reader

Oregon State University Press
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