A review by janetlun
Portland in Three Centuries: The Place and the People by Carl Abbott

I thoroughly enjoyed this history of Portland. He takes if from who was living on (what became) Sauvie Island before Europeans showed up to the present day in a slim book. It's a fast read, yet he still manages to work in a lot that I didn't know. There are Wobblies, the KKK, artists, longshoremen and immigrants. it's interesting seeing the city's character emerge. I knew bits and pieces about Portland's history, but this put it into context and added more detail. He's managed to work in the Lovejoy columns, and my favorite Oregonian, Marie Equi. Sadly, I guess there wasn't room for the story of her horsewhipping a man in The Dalles that refused the promised raise to her lover, the school marm.