Dirk Jamison chronicles the seven years his family spent eating from dumpsters after his father quit his job and shares what those years taught him about his family and life in general.
An ecologist chronicles one thousand years in the life of a forest in Oregon's Cascade Mountains, describing the plants and animals that inhabited it and the events and factors that shaped its development, year by year, from its formation in 987, up through 1988.
Instead of playing tennis, seventeen-year-old Jeff is required to spend his summer working on an Oregon strawberry farm where new friendships with field hands and migrant workers, as well as the farmer's daughter, change his outlook.
The summer before her fourteenth birthday, a fierce forest fire rages throughout northwestern Oregon and threatens the logging camp where Storie and her family live.
In the lawless frontier town of Century, Oregon, Esther Chamber is met by her distant cousin, a laconic cattle rancher named Ferris Pickett. But this town on the edge of civilization is in the midst of a very real range in a story of dispossession, greed, and ecstatic visions of America.
Cynthia Pemberton chronicles her struggle to obtain equality for women in sports at Linfield College after she was hired as the as assistant athletic director for women's sports in 1989.
In Acton, Oregon, sisters Alex, Stevie, and Joey take turns telling about their lives, including auditioning for the same part in the school musical, baking contest-worthy cupcakes, and becoming obsessed with "Little Women.".
Examines the history of the Oregon Trail from 1810 to 1870, discussing the experiences of people who traveled along the two-thousand-mile path into the American west, and providing information about wagon trains, forts, disasters, the Mormons, and other related topics.
