Hard Times in Paradise: Coos Bay, Oregon

Blessed with vast expanses of virgin timber, a good harbor, and a San Francisco market for its lumber, the Coos Bay area once dubbed itself "a poor man's paradise." A new Prologue and Epilogue by the author bring this story of gyppo loggers, longshoremen, millwrights, and whistle punks into the twenty-first century, describing Coos Bay's transition from timber town to a retirement and tourist community, where the site of a former Weyerhaeuser complex is now home to the Coquille Indian Tribe's The Mill Casino.

Author: William G. Robbins
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 05/01/2006
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.16w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780295985480

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2006 pg. 140

About the Author

William G. Robbins is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of History at Oregon State University. He is the author of Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story, 1800-1940 and Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940-2000, among other books.