Chaining Oregon
Title | Chaining Oregon PDF eBook |
Author | Kay Atwood |
Publisher | McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
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Chaining Oregon is the first comprehensive history of the early federal surveyors of the Pacific Northwest, the work they performed for the US General Land Office between 1851 and 1855, the contribution their efforts made to the westerly movement of American settlement, and the order they imposed on the land of the western valleys and adjacent mountains in what are now the states of Oregon and Washington. When Oregon Territory's Surveyor General John B. Preston and his cadre of engineers arrived in the Oregon region in 1851, there was little precedent for the legal systematic description of private landholding, but when the last of these surveyors left in 1855, much of the western interior valleys of Oregon and Washington territories, from Puget Sound to the Oregon-California border, lay measured in the precise pattern of townships and sections that characterized the US Rectangular Land Survey System. While inescapably having to work and survive within the political and social whorls and eddies of a frontier democracy, the surveyors themselves, traipsing for months at a time across what was to them marginally or completely unsettled land, typically were out of view of the general public and have frequently remained out of view of historians as well. With Chaining Oregon, Kay Atwood has brought the surveyors, their work, and their legacy out of the shadows of history into the deserved light of scholarship. Chaining Oregon is made up of eleven chapters, along with an Introduction and an Epilogue, notes, a bibliography, period photographs, and historic and contemporary maps. The work is both accessible and substantive; its flowing style will appeal to the general reader while its substance will be valued by historians, surveyors, geographers, archeologists, environmental historians, and others with interests in the people, the processes, and places that make up this work. The historic images provide views of the places that the surveyors worked, the tools that they used, and the maps that they made along with the elements of the landscape that they recorded as they went about their work.
Environmental History of the Willamette Valley, An
Title | Environmental History of the Willamette Valley, An PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Orr and William Orr |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1467141461 |
Western Oregon's Willamette Basin, once a vast wilderness, became a thriving community almost overnight. When Oregon territory was opened for homesteading in the early 1800s, most of the intrepid pioneers settled in the valley, spurring rapid changes in the landscape. Heralded as fertile with a mild climate and an abundance of natural resources, the valley enticed farmers, miners and loggers, who were quickly followed by the construction of rail lines and roads. Dams were built to harness the once free-flowing Willamette River and provide power to the growing population. As cities rose, people like Portland architect Edward Bennett and conservationist governor Tom McCall worked to contain urban sprawl. Authors Elizabeth and William Orr bring to life the changes that sculpted Oregon's beloved Willamette Valley.
Beyond Community Policing
Title | Beyond Community Policing PDF eBook |
Author | James J. Chriss |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2015-12-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317263227 |
Beyond Community Policing uses history and general sociological theory to examine the trajectory of municipal policing from Britain in the 1830s to its adoption and evolution in the America. By analysing the uncertain and uneven historical development of policing, this book illustrates in great detail the functional connections between cities (or communities) and police departments. Chriss also considers the development of municipal policing in the American West between 1850 and 1890, which helps to situate the current discussion of policing in the post 9/11 United States.
Oregon Historical Quarterly
Title | Oregon Historical Quarterly PDF eBook |
Author | Oregon Historical Society |
Publisher | |
Pages | 692 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Northwest, Pacific |
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Surveying and Land Information Science
Title | Surveying and Land Information Science PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Cartography |
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Acquisition of Clause Chaining
Title | Acquisition of Clause Chaining PDF eBook |
Author | Hannah Sarvasy |
Publisher | Frontiers Media SA |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 2020-12-29 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 2889662918 |
This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.
Oregon Chain Law
Title | Oregon Chain Law PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 4 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Studded tires |
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