Blessed with vast expanses of virgin timber, a good harbor, and a San Francisco market for its lumber, the Coos Bay area once dubbed itself ‘a poor man’s paradise.’ A new Prologue and Epilogue by the author bring this story of gyppo loggers, longshoremen, millwrights, and whistle punks into the twenty-first century, describing Coos Bay’s transition from timber town to a retirement and tourist community, where the site of a former Weyerhaeuser complex is now home to the Coquille Indian Tribe’s The Mill Casino.
Table of Content
Map 1 Coos County, Oregon
Map 2 Coos Bay area
Prologue to the Revised Edition
Preface to the Original Edition
Introduction
1) Poor Man’s Paradise
2) An Empire Itself
3) The ‘Big Mill’ and Its World
4) Logging the Coos Timber
5) Getting By
6) Surviving the Great Depression
7) The Second World War
8) Lumber Capital of the World
9) Timber Fever
10) Bosses and Workers
11) Hard Times and Survivors
Post Mortem: Reflections on the Present Condition
Epilogue to the Revised Edition
Notes
Index
About the author
Robbins is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of History at Oregon State University. He has published eight books on the Pacific Northwest, including Hard Times In Paradise: Coos Bay, Oregon (Washington), Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940-2000 (Washington), and Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story, 1800-1940 (Washington).
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