Oregon East, Oregon West Travels & Memoirs Kirchhoff 1863-1872 Trautmann 1987

Description: Minor shelf handling wear to pages, covers, and dust jacket, with a few store notations in pencil, a few small discoloration areas on dust jacket and book edges. OCR scan of some of the pages: Theodor Kirchhoff wrote many pieces about the AmericanWest for nineteenth-century German magazines; among themwere excellent and insightful articles about Oregon. In thisvolume seventeen of his best are published in English for thefirst time. Kirchhoff offers a cornucopia of information aboutthose early times, rendering many profiles of picaresque characters and rough towns.In the first essay of this volume Kirchhoff gives a hard lookat the "locals" in Portland and the Willamette Valley:The residents were melancholic-a striking fact I could nothelp but notice as the sun smiled golden-bright out of bluedepths of clear skies and seemed to invite joy from every-thing. When 1 inquired about this peculiar psychological as-pect-What made the people of Portland so glum? - I learnedthat the brilliant sunshine was the cause. Young and old alikehad grown so used to Portland's almost continual rain that anentire day of sunshine annoyed them. Last winter they weresupposed to have been overjoyed because cloudbursts-"Thank God!"-persisted without interruption for 134 days.The happy dwellers of this Land of Rain. .. love to waddle inthe drenched streets during downpours, like ducks. Indeed,they are known by an honorable title, Webfoot, and are morethan a little proud of it ....I thanked a gracious Providence that I discovered the am-phibious feature of Webfoot country in time. Otherwise Imight have honored Portland by taking up residence.Kirchhoff did live in Oregon for a time, owning a store in TheDalles. His essays give life to that town, as well as Portland, theWillamette Valley and southern Oregon. The influence of newmining strikes in both Oregon and Idaho are among the fas-cinating tales. ISBN: 0-87595-174-0 FREDERIC TRAUTMANN, born to German parents in Ohio in 1936, attended public schools in Illinoisand Wisconsin, received his undergraduate degree at the Universityof Wisconsin-River Falls, and hisgraduate degrees at Purdue Uni-versity. In 1966 he joined the fac-ulty of Temple University wherehe is an associate professor, teach-ing courses in rhetoric and com-munication. His many articles in-clude studies of Harriet BeecherStowe, Walt Whitman. MarkTwain, Louis Kossuth, CharlesDickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson,and Arthur Schopenhauer; and hisnumerous translations have ap-peared in historical journals eastand west of the Mississippi, bring-ing to readers of English the trav-els and memoirs of foreigners inAmerica. As a rhetorician whotranslates~he translates fromGerman and Dutch-he is workingin a tradition that goes back atleast to Cicero and includes manydistinguished translators whowere also noted rhetoricians. Hisidea of Heaven is "an unlimitedsupply of sharp pencils and thepaper to put them to, an infinitenumber of Dutch and Germantexts, a comfortable chair, anda warm day in summer, a Saturday afternoon that will continueforever .* Jacket illustration by Karen Beyers

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