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NARRATIVES

Canneries on the Columbia

by Joseph E. Taylor III
Bibliography—Columbia River Fishery

Canneries on the Columbia, Bibliography

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Allen, Cain. “Replacing Salmon: Columbia River Indian Fishing Rights and the Geography of Fisheries Mitigation.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 104 (2003): 196-227.

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Barber, Katrine. Death of Celilo Falls. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.

Bates, Nancy, and Charles Rogers. “Point Adams Packing Company, 1920-1982.” Cumtux 7:3 (1987).

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Boyd, Robert T., Kenneth M. Ames, and Tony A. Johnson, eds. Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013.

Coe, Aaron. “’Well and favorably known’: Deciphering Chinese Merchant Status in the Immigration Office of Astoria, Oregon, 1900-1924.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 114:2 (Summer 2013): 142-73.

Cone, Joseph, and Sandy Ridlington, eds. The Northwest Salmon Crisis: A Documentary History. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1996.

Cosens, Barbara. The Columbia River Treaty Revisited: Transboundary River Governance in the Face of Uncertainty. Corvallis: Oregon State University, 2012.

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Cunningham, Glenn. “Oregon’s First Salmon Canner, ‘Captain’ John West.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 54 (1953): 240-48.

Damron, John Earnest. “The Emergence of Salmon Trolling on the American Northwest Coast: A Maritime Historical Geography.” Ph.D. diss., University of Oregon, 1975.

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Dilg, Janice. “’For Working Women in Oregon’: Caroline Gleason/Sister Miriam Theresa and Oregon’s Minimum Wage Law.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 110:1 (Spring 2009): 96-129.

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Dupris, Joseph C., Kathleen S. Hill, and William H. Rodgers Jr. The Si’lailo Way: Indians, Salmon, and Law on the Columbia River. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2006.

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Fisher, Andrew H. Shadow Tribe: The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010.

_____. “Tangled Nets: Treaty Rights and Tribal Identities at Celilo Falls.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 105 (2004): 178-211.

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Friday, Chris. Organizing Asian American Labor: The Pacific Coast Canned-Salmon Industry, 1870-1942. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.

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Hall, Greg. “The Fruits of Her Labor: Women, Children, and Progressive Era Reformers in the Pacific Northwest Canning Industry.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 109:2 (Summer 2008): 226-51.

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_____. “Ethnicity and Radicalism: The Finns of Astoria and the Toveri, 1890-1930.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 96 (1995-96): 362-93.

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Jordan, David Starr, and Charles H. Gilbert. “Salmon Fishing and Canning Interests.” In The Fisheries and Fishing Industries of the United States, ed. George Brown Goode. Vol. 5. Washington, D.C.: Government Publishing Office, 1887.

Landeen, Dan, and Allen Pinkham. Salmon and His People: Fish and Fishing in Nez Perce Culture. Lewiston, ID: Confluence Press, 1999.

Lang, William L. “The Meaning of Falling Water: Celilo Falls and the Dalles in Historical Literature.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 108:4 (Winter 2007): 566-85.

Lichatowich, Jim. Salmon, People, and Place: A Biologist’s Search for Salmon Recovery. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2013.

_____. Salmon without Rivers: A History of the Pacific Salmon Crisis. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1999.

Martin, Irene. Legacy and Testament: The Story of Columbia River Gillnetters. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1994.

_____ and Roger Tetlow. Flight of the Bumblebee: The Columbia River Packers Association and a Century in the Pursuit of Fish. Long Beach, WA: The Chinook Observer, 2011.

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_____, ed. The Development of the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry: A Grown Man’s Game. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1989.

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_____. “Ghadar, Historical Silences, and Notions of Belonging: Early 1900s Punjabis of the Columbia River.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 113:2 (Summer 2012): 164-97.

Parman, Donald L. “Inconstant Advocacy: The Erosion of Indian Fishing Rights in the Pacific Northwest, 1933-1956.” Pacific Historical Review 53 (1984): 163-89.

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Reid, Kay. “Multilayered Loyalties: Oregon Indian Women as Citizens of the Land, Their Tribal Nations, and the United States.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 113:3 (Fall 2012): 392-407.

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_____. Salmon Fishers of the Columbia. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1979.

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Taylor, Joseph E., III. “El Niño and Vanishing Salmon: Culture, Nature, History, and the Politics of Blame.” Western Historical Quarterly 29 (1998): 437-57.

_____. “Burning the Candle at Both Ends: Historicizing Overfishing in Oregon’s Nineteenth-Century Salmon Fisheries.” Environmental History 4 (1999): 54-79.

_____. Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999.

Tetlow, Roger T., and Graham J. Barbey. The Story of a Pioneer Columbia River Salmon Packer. Portland: Binford & Mort, 1990.

Ulrich, Roberta. Empty Nets: Indians, Dams, and the Columbia River. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1999.

_____. American Indian Nations from Termination to Restoration, 1953-2006. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.

White, Richard. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River. New York: Hill and Wang, 1995.

Wilkinson, Charles. “Celilo Falls: At the Center of Western History.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 108:4 (Winter 2007): 532-42.

Ed. Jun Xing, Erlinda Gonzales-Berry, Patti Sakurai, Robert D. Thompson, Jr., and Kurt Peters. Seeing Color: Indigenous Peoples and Racialized Ethnic Minorities in Oregon. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2007.

Zenk, Henry and Tony A. Johnson. “A Northwest Language of Contact, Diplomacy, and Identity: Chinuk Wawa/Chinook Jargon.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 111:4 (Winter 2010): 444-461.

© Oregon History Project, 2006. Updated and revised by OHP staff, 2014.

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