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Environment and Experience - Settlement Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oregon (Hardcover)
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Environment and Experience - Settlement Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oregon (Hardcover)
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The pioneer battling with a hostile environment-whether it be arid
land, drought, dust storms, dense forests, or harsh winters-is a
staple of western American history. In this innovative,
multi-disciplinary work, Peter Boag takes issue with the image of
the settler against the frontier, arguing that settlers viewed
their new surroundings positively and attempted to create
communities in harmony with the landscape. Using Oregon's Calapooia
Valley as a case study, Boag presents a history of both land and
people that shows the process of change as settlers populated the
land and turned it to their own uses. By combining local sources,
ranging from letters and diaries to early maps and local histories,
and drawing upon the methods of geography, natural history, and
literary analysis, Boag has created a richly detailed grass-roots
portrait of a frontier community. Most significantly, he analyzes
the connections among environmental, cultural, and social changes
in ways that illuminate the frontier experience throughout the
American west. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived
program, which commemorates University of California Press's
mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them
voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893,
Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1992.
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