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The Burden Of Oregon History: The Historian As Prophet, John P. Rosenberg
The Burden Of Oregon History: The Historian As Prophet, John P. Rosenberg
Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies Publications
In the latter part of his public career, after a lifetime of studying and thinking about the region and its people, Dodds began to write about “the tragedy of the lack of tragedy” in the lives of Pacific Northwesterners. Life had been relatively easy and perhaps “too successful” for the region’s citizens, “especially if one were a Caucasian,” wrote Gordon Dodds in the epilogue to his 1986 regional history, The American Northwest: A History of Oregon and Washington. Pacific Northwesterners had mastered their few difficulties with relative ease and their undemanding past may have left them unprepared for the adversities …