Stewart Holbrook
Stewart Hall Holbrook (1893–1964) was an
conservationism
, Holbrook believed that Oregon's growing population would damage the state's environment.
Career
Holbrook was a logger before he moved to
sustained yield forestry to his concerns about unplanned population growth.[6]
Awards and honors
The Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award is named after Holbrook and is presented every year "to a person or organization in recognition of significant contributions that have enriched Oregon’s literary community."[7]
Bibliography
- Holy Old Mackinaw: A Natural History of the American Lumberjack (1938) ISBN 1-112-55989-2
- Let Them Live (1938)
- Iron Brew: A Century of American Ore and Steel (1939)
- ISBN 1-121-69376-8
- Tall Timber (1941)
- Murder Out Yonder: An Informal Study of Certain Classic Crimes in Back-Country America (1941)
- None More Courageous: American War Heroes of Today (1942) ISBN 1-122-08926-0
- A Narrative of Schafer Bros. Logging Company's Half Century in the Timber (1945)
- Burning an Empire: The Study of American Forest Fires (1943)
- Green Commonwealth: A Narrative of the Past and a Look at the Future of One Forest Products Community (1945) ISBN 1-127-02722-0
- Promised Land: A Collection of Northwest Writing (1945)
- Lost Men of American History (1946) ISBN 1-117-51286-X
- The Story of American Railroads (1947) ISBN 1-122-15378-3
- Little ISBN 1-125-58757-1
- (with Henry Sheldon) Northwest Corner: Oregon and Washington: the Last Frontier (1948) ISBN 1-199-18651-1
- with Sheldon, Henry (1948). Northwest Corner: Oregon and Washington: the Last Frontier. ISBN 1-199-18651-1.
- America's Ethan Allen (1949) ISBN 1-112-12168-4
- Yankee Exodus: an Account of Migration (1950) ISBN 1-125-30990-3
- The Portland Story (1951)
- Far Corner: A Personal View of the ISBN 1-199-10824-3
- Saga of the Saw Files (1952)
- (with Ernest Richardson) Wild Bill Hickok Tames the West (1952)
- Age of the Moguls (1985) ISBN 0517556790(Original work published 1953)
- (with Milton Rugoff) Down on the Farm, A Picture History of Country Life in America in the Good Old Days (1954) ISBN 1-122-18476-X
- James J. Hill: A Great Life in Brief (1955)
- Machines of Plenty: Pioneering in American Agriculture (1955) ISBN 1-199-05586-7
- Davy Crockett (1955)
- Wyatt Earp: U.S. Marshall (1956)
- The Columbia (ISBN 1-117-17992-3
- The Rocky Mountain Revolution (1956) ISBN 1-122-05229-4
- Dreamers of the American Dream (1957) ISBN 1-112-13685-1
- (with Ernest Richardson) Swamp Fox of the Revolution (1957) ISBN 1-299-86718-9
- Mr. Otis (1958) ISBN 1-199-11100-7
- The Golden Age of Quackery (1959)
- The Golden Age of Railroads (1960)
- Yankee Logger: A Recollection of Woodsmen, Cooks and River Drivers (1961)
- The Old Post Road: The Story of the Boston Post Road (1962)
- (with ISBN 1-117-12249-2
- The Wonderful West (1963)
- The Columbia River (1965)
- Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistle Punks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest (1992) - an anthology of his writings. ISBN 0-87071-367-1
References
- ^ "Portland Noir". OPB. Archived from the original on 2013-11-04. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
- ^ Holbrook, Stewart. "The First Bomb". The New Yorker. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- ^ Spencer, Aaron. "Portland's Pretend Picasso: Stewart Holbrook's 'Mr. Otis' On Display". OPB. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- ^ Holbrook, Stewart. "Mr. Otis--- past". Portland Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- ^ Holbrook, Stewart. "Stewart H. Holbrook Mr. Otis paintings collection, 1947-1962". Archives West. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- ^ Booth, Brian (2000). "Stewart Holbrook". Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission, Portland, Oregon. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
- ^ "Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award". Literary Arts. 9 September 2008. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
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