Name: Hard Times in Paradise
ISBN: 9780295985480

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Who It's For

Good for readers interested in Coos Bay and Oregon regional historyGood for readers interested in logging communities and economic transition

Book Details

Authors: William G. Robbins
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: May 1, 2006
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Pacific Northwest History · Western U.S. History
Reading lane: Pacific Northwest History

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Western U.S. History

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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 Coqui...

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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.