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By Raymond D. Gastil

The Pacific Northwest--for the needs of this booklet ordinarily Oregon and Washington--has occasionally been obvious as missing major cultural heritage. domestic to idyllic environmental wonders, the quarter has been tormented by the suggestion that the easiest and brightest usually left looking for larger issues, that the mainstream global was once millions of miles away--or no less than as a ways south as California. This e-book describes the Pacific Northwest's look for a local identification from the 1st Indian-European contacts in the course of the overdue 20th century, picking these participants and teams "who no less than struggled to provide desiring to the Northwest experience." It locations specific emphasis on writers and different celebrated members within the arts, detailing how their lives and works either mirrored the sector and likewise more advantageous its experience of self.

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A speech he gave late in his career at the Portland Commercial Club (1900) ended in punctuated bursts: 44 The Pacific Northwest Note our situation on the Pacific seaboard. Note also that the changes of recent times have virtually made the Pacific an American sea. The active theatre of the world’s new effort is now in Asia and Western America. The two hemispheres, heretofore in communication only across the Atlantic, are now rapidly developing an intercourse over the Pacific. Many steamships, and an increasing number, on regular lines, now sail between our Pacific ports and the ports of the Orient ...

Born in 1801, he had gone from North Carolina to Kentucky to Indiana. His background, his handsome looks, and his ambition would all be future points in his favor, but most important was his Mexican war record as General Joe Lane. When the war was over, Lane, along with Winfield Scott, Franklin Pierce, and Zachary Taylor, found himself nationally prominent. The Oregon fever and the Whitman massacre brought the Northwest into the national spotlight. Mountain man Joe Meek, Polk’s personal agent, approached Lane in August 1848— would he like to be governor of the new territory of Oregon?

The Willamette Valley also set standards on the Northwest frontier for another institution—the press. Churches and newspapers almost monopolized mid-century cultural life, and it is no accident that so many regional notables of the kind treated here were connected with one or the other avenue of advancement. The elites struggled to educate settlers, but also furthered a democratic consciousness-raising that would imperil their own positions. ”8 Newspapers in the 1850s were moral organs that tried to make citizens more useful and productive.

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