An anthology of Oregon poetry from Native American tribal lyrics to the present.

"This is a magnificent, condensed epic of the people of the northwest, starting with Native Americans, through the influx of other races that would log the forests and exploit the vast fishery, taking us up through the world wars and dislocations of ownership and labor."--Page 4 of cover.

"Although for the most part forgotten today, Ada Hastings Hedges was among Oregon's foremost mid-twentieth-century poets. Famous in her lifetime, she was best known for her superb poems set in Oregon's high desert, which offer a fascinating counterpoint to C.E.S. Wood's seminal The Poet in the Desert. Except for a twelve-year sojourn in southeastern Oregon and two years in Los Angeles where her physician-husband served in the City Health Department,...