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Wood works: the life and writings of Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Edwin Bingham, Tim Barnes, Oregon State University Press, 1997, 0870713973, 9780870713972, 340 pages. This first anthology of Wood's writings reintroduces a major figure in the literature and history of the American West. Selections range from Wood's famous rendering of Chief Joseph's "surrender speech" to satirical dialogues from his best-known work, Heavenly Discourse.. DOWNLOAD HERE The Way to Cobbs Creek Stories, Dabney Stuart, 1997, Fiction, 153 pages. A quartet of stories by a Southern poet. In the title story, Mark Random meditates on the mysteries of family, comparing his fatherhood with that of his father, Seth. By the .... Collected poems , Charles Erskine Scott Wood, 1949, , 289 pages. N.C. Wyeth's Pilgrims , Robert D. San Souci, Sep 1, 1996, Juvenile Fiction, 40 pages. Recounts the coming of the Pilgrims to America, with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth.. 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Like Plath, she was an earlyMademoiselle guest editor in New York, an Ivy League and Cambridge student, an aspiring .... The grains, or, Passages in the life of Ruth Rover, with occasional pictures of Oregon, natural and moral , Margaret Jewett Bailey, 1986, Biography & Autobiography, 338 pages. Greater Portland Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest, Carl Abbott, 2001, History, 242 pages. Carl Abbott reports how Portland became a model of American urban planning.. Illahe The Story of Settlement in the Rogue River Canyon, Kay Atwood, 2002, History, 262 pages. Illahe presents the history of white settlement in the most isolated part of southern Oregon's rugged Rogue River Canyon, starting in the 1850s, based on the words of the .... Earthly discourse , Charles Erskine Scott Wood, 1937, Humor, 268 pages. Mark Twain in three moods three new items of Twainiana, Mark Twain, Charles Erskine Scott Wood, 1948, Biography & Autobiography, 32 pages. Reading Portland the city in prose, John Trombold, Peter Donahue, Feb 1, 2007, Fiction, 570 pages. Reading Portland is a literary exploration of the city's past and present. In almost over eighty selections, Portland is revealed through histories, memoirs, autobiographies .... Free speech and the Constitution in the war , Charles Erskine Scott Wood, , Law, 29 pages. Charles Erskine Scott Wood , Edwin R. Bingham, Wayne Chatterton, James H. Maguire, 1990, Biography & Autobiography, 52 pages. Human cartography poems, James Gurley, 2002, Poetry, 101 pages. In this collection, poet James Gurley maps the emotional and physical landscapes we inhabit. His poems employ the theorems and metaphors of science to examine how history and .... Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, Wood graduated from West Point in 1874.[1] He served as an infantry officer and fought in the Nez Perce War in 1877. He was present at the surrender of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce. It was Wood who transcribed, and perhaps embellished, Chief Joseph's famous speech, which ended with: "My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."[2] The two men became close friends. Following his service he became a prominent attorney in Portland, Oregon, where he often defended labor unions and "radicals" including birth control activist Margaret Sanger.[3] He began to write, became a frequent contributor to Pacific Monthly magazine, and was a leader of Portland's literary community. Wood was unflagging in his opposition to state power. He advocated such causes as civil liberties for anti-war protesters, birth control, and anti-imperialism.[2] In 1927, he wrote in Heavenly Discourse that the "city of George Washington is blossoming into quite a nice little seat of empire and centralized bureaucracy. The people have a passion to 'let Uncle Sam do it.' The federal courts are police courts. An entire system with an army of officials has risen on the income tax; another on prohibition. The freedom of the common man, more vital to progress than income or alcohol, has vanished.―[4] Wood not only advocated for the Native Americans, but he painted them. His love of painting generated numerous studies of landscapes and points of interest along the Oregon and California coastline. He also memorialized some of his favorite places in watercolor including Keats' grave and vistas from his home in Los Gatos, The Cats. His primary medium was watercolor/graphite. The Huntington Library has a good sampling of his artwork online. Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852-1944) led an extraordinary life--long, varied, and controversial. Soldier, poet, attorney, satirist, anarchist, reformer, bon vivant, painter, and pacifist--C. E. S. Wood was all of these. A celebrated figure in the early part of this century, his fame faded after his death in 1944. In recent years, however, there has been renewed interest in Wood. This long-awaited first anthology of his writings gives readers a vital sense of this colorful and complex character and reintroduces a major figure in Western literature and history. As a young infantry officer, Wood fought in Indian campaigns and first saw the southeastern Oregon desert--a "lean and stricken land," that was to have a deep influence on him. As a prominent Portland, Oregon, attorney, he helped shape that city's culture, while supporting radical causes. Wood spent the last twenty-five years of his life with his second wife, poet Sara Bard Field, in the Los Gatos, California, retreat that they called The Cats. Here Wood wrote satire and poetry that brought him national recognition. Wood was a fascinating and polished personality, as at ease in a banker's drawing room as he was at a gathering of Wobblies. He drew friends from contrasting corners of society, including such well-known figures as Chief Joseph, Mark Twain, Emma Goldman, Ansel Adams, Robinson Jeffers, Clarence Darrow, Childe Hassam, Margaret Sanger, and John Steinbeck. Wood Works is divided into four sections that represent the different stages of Wood's writing career. The first treats his frontier experiences and includes Wood's famous rendering of Chief Joseph's eloquent sentiments at the time of his surrender. The second stage revolves around his frequent contributions to Pacific Monthly, the Pacific Northwest's leading literary magazine. Wood's third stage marks his most prolific and powerful period as a writer. This section includes excerpts from his acclaimed book-length poem, The Poet in the Desert. His fourth stage was spent in California with Sara and was devoted to writing and reform. This final section includes several satirical, often hilarious, dialogues from Wood's best-known book, Heavenly Discourse. In the middle of the fifties I found a pocket edition of 'Heavenly Discourse' in a bookshop in Stockholm, Sweden and found it fascinating and hilarious. I lost the book and the name of its author. No one of all the Internets Search engines were able to find this title. Amazing! Finally I found a copy of the first edition (1926) at the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam. But this precious edition will not be lended. I think after more than 70 years a translation into Dutch would be worthwhile. Why not a new reprint of the 1st edition? = Jacques de Reus, Amstelveen. Netherlands C.E.S. Wood may have been the most influential cultural figure in Portland in the forty years surrounding the turn of the twentieth century. He helped found the Portland Art Museum and was instrumental in making the Multnomah County Library a free and public institution. He secured the services of his friend Olin Warner, a nationally known sculptor, to design the Skidmore Fountain, and his words "Good citizens are the riches of a city" are inscribed at its base. The Portland Rose Festival was his idea. He numbered among his friends Mark Twain, Emma Goldman, John Reed, Clarence Darrow, Lincoln Steffens, Ansel Adams, John Steinbeck, Charlie Chaplin, James J. Hill, and Langston Hughes. Soldier, lawyer, poet, painter, raconteur, bon vivant, politician, free spirit, and Renaissance man, Wood might also be the most interesting man in Oregon history. He was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, February 20, 1852, the son of Rosemary Carson and William Maxwell Wood, first surgeon general of the U.S. Navy. Wood graduated from West Point and came west in 1874 to fight Indians. He served as aide-de-camp to General O.O. Howard in the Nez Perce (1877) and Bannock-Paiute (1878) campaigns. Wood recorded one of the most famous speeches in Native American oratory, the surrender speech of Chief Joseph, which reportedly ended with "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever." There is some controversy about the recording of Joseph's speech. Wood claims to have written it down as Joseph spoke, but some historians believe that he recorded a speech Joseph gave to his chiefs in council as reported to Wood by two Nez Perce go-betweens.