Unfairly forgotten primo northwest writer who has an unsparing eye and a sensitive bs detector. This anthology collects two dozen of his best pieces about his adopted home, the pacific northwest. This anthology collects two dozen of his best pieces. Stewart holbrook s lowbrow northwest northwest reprints booth, brian on.
Booth, whose first book this is, is founder and chair of the oregon institute of literary. Stewart holbrooks lowbrow northwest by brian booth, stewart holbrook pp. They may be downloaded from the bureau of plannings historic resources web site. Stewart holbrooks lowbrow northwest northwest reprints brian booth on. Is there a better way to celebrate oregons 150 th birthday than curling up with a good oregon book. Stewart holbrooks lowbrow northwest by brian booth. Stewart hall holbrook 18931964 was an american logger, writer, and popular historian. Responsibility edited and introduced by brian booth. Logging operations and sawmills were crippled throughout oregon and washington and agricultural labor waned. Its history and builders, 1911 and centennial history of oregon, 18111912, 1912.
Brian booth stewart holbrook highschool dropout, logger, journalist, storyteller, and historian was one of the bestloved figures in the pacific northwest during the two decades preceding his death in 1964. Holbrook s lowbrow northwest ranges from british columbia logging camps to oregon ranches, and is peopled with fascinating. Holbrook 18931964highschool dropout, logger, journalist, storyteller, and historianwas one of the bestloved figures in the pacific northwest during the two decades preceding his death in 1964. Stewart holbrooks lowbrow northwest by brian booth pp. Brian cofounded the oregon cultural heritage commission, which celebrates the states diverse literary and cultural legacy through public events, memorials and publications. A selfproclaimed lowbrow historian, his topics included ethan allen, the railroads, the timber industry, the wobblies, and eccentrics of the pacific northwest. It is written entirely to remind the reader that no social changes, economic betterment, higher wages, improved working conditions, breaking down of prejudice, et. Stewart holbrook s lowbrow northwest northwest reprints. Funny, exciting, poignant and highly recommended, especially if you live in the pacific northwest. Holbrooks lowbrow northwest ranges from british columbia logging camps to oregon ranches, and is peopled with fascinating. Stewart holbrook s lowbrow northwest by brian booth pp. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. The wobblies, as they were universally identified, had already drawn blood in puget sound and stirred fear and violent reprisal in many other parts of the west, and were at the peak of their brief power that summer of 1917. An early proponent of conservationism, holbrook believed.