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Article: A Walk toward Oregon: A Memoir.(Book Review)
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- Oregon Historical Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2001. Photographs, index. 345 pages. $17.95 Paper.
Reviewed by Katrine Barber Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
IN A SHORT FORWARD, historian Alvin Josephy describes his memoir as a means to explain Oregon's significance in his long, colorful life. Quoting Henry Thoreau, Josephy explains that he finds Oregon a surrogate for what is most promising in the broader West. Also like Thoreau, Josephy gazes on the West with eastern eyes. How does Oregon become important to a young New Yorker whose life experiences parallel the twentieth-century history of the United States? Not surprisingly, the West as embodied ...
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