Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Prologue: The Essence of Place

The Early Historic Period, 1800-1850

-- The Native Ecological Context

-- The Great Divide

Settler Occupation and the Advent of Industrialism, 1850-1890

-- Prescripting the Landscape

-- Technology and Abundance

-- Into the Hinterland

Extending the Industrial Infrastructure, 1890-1940

-- Nature's Industries and the Rhetoric of Industrialism

-- Industrializing the Woodlands

-- Engineering Nature

-- Toward systemic Change

Epilogue: One Moment in TIme

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Reviews

"William G. Robbins offers a multilayered story that is as richly textured as the landscape he treats. The book's breadth ranges from the general level of the myths by which people shape and sustain their world view, values, and actions to the ecological specifics of concrete places as the author traces the interaction between Oregon's human and natural worlds. Landscapes of Promise is a well-told narrative in which the older simple, linear, heroic success story gives way to a richer history filled with diversity, complexity, tragedy, and irony". -- Journal of American History