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Handbook of the Indians of California
No full text"This is a monumental work. The title is misleading. It is much more than a handbook. The opening of the author's preface is as follows: 'This book is the outcome of 17 years of acquaintance and occupation with the Indians of California; intermittent, it is true, but with these people remaining throughout the first subject of the writer's study. Although it may seem otherwise, it attempts to be a history.'
The Commission for Relief in Belgium, Statistical Review of Relief Operations
Get PDF"Herbert Hoover, Chairman of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, has brought such work as this to the Pacific Coast by endowing at Stanford University the Hoover War Collection, one of the greatest collections in existence of records and documents pertaining to the World War.
Books on Western Life for Young People
Get PDF"As the result of a statement made by an eastern librarian that there were not good books on Western life to recommend to young people, President Walter E. Clark of the University of Nevada became interested in compiling a list of such books… From the suggestions thus obtained he has compiled a composite list of 'Books on Western Life for Young People.'
Judge Thomas Burke
Get PDF"Through such a length of fruitful years Thomas Burke wrought with a profound and unsparing industry. His skillful hands touched every worthy cause within his reach; his fertile brain visioned opportunities and blessings for city, state and nation; his dauntless courage combatted and conquered dangers; his loving heart linked to him countless friends of every hue and station, each of whom alone knew some act of kindness.
Reindeer in the Arctic
Get PDF"The reindeer is to the Eskimo what the buffalo of the plains was to the Indian, and more. From its skin he gets his arteegee (parka), his pants, his boots. From its flesh he feeds his family. From its sinew his wife makes her thread, and his children sleep in robes of its skin... It gives him his couch upon which he is born, and it furnishes his shroud when he dies.
Honne, the Spirit of the Chehalis
No full text"This collection of Chehalis folktales is a welcome addition to the body of material about the Indians of the Northwest which is being gradually accumulated. Very little is known about them for their tribal life disintegrated soon after the coming of the whites. That there are fragments to be gleaned by the ethnologist is shown by the present publication... The second book deals with the Haida Indians of the Queen Charlotte Islands, a tribe formerly feared by all tribes from Alaska to California. The book is written by a man who has lived among these people for forty years and therefore witnessed the old life before its decay. The author has given a very readable, entertaining account, but it adds little to the information which ethnologists have gathered.
We Must March
Get PDF"Mrs. Morrow uses as a subhead for We Must March 'A Novel of the Winning of Oregon.' The heroine is the 'golden-haired, golden-voiced Narcissa,' bride of Marcus Whitman, famous medical missionary to the Indians of the Oregon country. It is made to appear that Mrs. Whitman respected but did not love her husband. The foil in the story is no less a character than Sir George Simpson, Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company. The theme is the struggle for Oregon with Whitman's great ride used as heroics in a supreme effort to win the real love of his bride.
Records of 1923-1924
Get PDF"Volume XXX of American Book-Prices Current, covering the auction season of 1923-1924, has recently appeared. An examination of the titles listed reveals the sale of many items of Western Americana… On the whole it would appear that buyers have used greater caution than in previous years.
