Stewart Hall Holbrook ;
Stewart Hall Holbrook
Spouse :
Miss Sybil Theona Walker became with the marriage.
Mrs.Sibyl Theona Walker Holbrook
****
Oregon in Portland's Stewart Hall Holbrook became a leading American journalist and historian by writing what he himself called "lowbrow" or "non-stuffed shirt history." His writings, sense of humor, and social criticism also made him a sort of combination of Will Rogers, Mark Twain and H.L. Mencken for Portland in the Pacific Northwest.
Holbrook helped record in a readable and colorful manner the lowbrow history of this region, which was generally overlooked by many historians during his lifetime only recently has become a subject for academic study by the "New Western Historians." Holbrook's trail through the Northwest was a very different type of Oregon Trail than Chambers of Commerce promoted or the conventional heroic view of the pioneers/missionaries of the West that prevailed during his lifetime. Holbrook's writings reflect his sympathy for and romanticizing of loggers and other workers, underdogs, visionaries and fanatics, his interest in the humorous and offbeat, and his penchant for puncturing myths and poking fun at stuffed-shirts and hypocrites from all walks of life.
Holbrook's career was remarkable when considered that when he moved to Portland in 1923 when he was a 30 year old unemployed ex-logger without any high school degree.
By the time of his death, the former logger had become an almost legendary figure for anyone in the Pacific Northwest with an interest in writing, journalism, history, current affairs, or the area's leading industry forestry products. His byline in magazines and newspapers, including The Oregonian for 36 years, was known to readers across the country. Author of over three dozen books he being one of the nation's most popular historians/commentators, he taught at Harvard University, lectured at Reed and was known as the "Lumberjack Boswell." He was the nation's leading spokesperson for what he called the "Far Corner" Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. As one scholar recently wrote, "he single-handedly put the region on the literary map in the mid-20th century."
But Holbrook's celebrity also came from his reputation as a "24-karat character": a witty raconteur and storyteller; a colorful dresser in his derby or rumpled stetson, who carried a snoose can in his pocket; and an irreverent and skeptical social critic who gleefully took on institutions such as the Church, Chambers of Commerce and the "Cult of the Pioneers." His circle of friends was scattered from Madison Avenue to skidroads, and included H.L. Mencken, Alfred Knopf, Bernard DeVoto, and assorted executives, college presidents, loggers, radicals and Wobblies. To date (A.D. 2013), Holbrook is the only writer to have served as Grand Marshall of Portland's famed Rose Parade.
Holbrook was an early forest conservationist and an advocate of sustained yield forestry. As the founder and leading spokesperson of the imaginary James G. Blaine Society, Holbrook campaigned against unplanned population growth and development in the Pacific Northwest. His concern about the problems that growth would bring to the Pacific Northwest preceded by many years the similar concerns of Oregon Governor Tom McCall and today's environmental organizations.
Holbrook was the patron and fictive alter-ego of the remarkable Mr. Otis, founder of the Primitive-Moderne School of art. Mr. Otis's paintings explore the same historical subjects Holbrook wrote about. Colorful, entertaining, and satirical, they depict historical events and his environmental and political concerns while parodying styles of contemporary art from his era. Holbrook's sophisticated understanding of modern art was applied in a whimsical manner, inasmuch as he used humor in his writing.
From the end of World War II until his death in 1964, Holbrook was perhaps the Pacific Northwest's best-known personality. The press covered his books, his travels, his views on current issues, and the famous people who came to Portland to visit the Holbrooks. One would have to turn to the very different Norman Mailer in the in New York of the '60s and '70s for a literary figure who was so omnipresent and highly visible in a major community.
One of the few residents of our region with a national reputation in any field, his celebrity was a matter of local pride. In those days before TV, the Global Village and the Trail Blazers, Holbrook linked the remote Northwest with the glamorous world of publishing and entertainment headquartered in New York City, New York.
Ironically, for a writer and public figure who specialized in "lost men and women of American history," Holbrook's fame did not last long after his death, and he became one of the lost men he wrote about. Proposals to honor Holbrook with statues and memorials never came about. His books gradually went out of print.
A few he wrote below here now:
Holy Old Mackinaw: A Natural History of the American Lumberjack; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. New, Enlarged Edition; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1956. Reprint: Sausalito, CA: Comstock Editions, Inc., 1979.
Let Them Live. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938.
Iron Brew: A Century of American Ore and Steel. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1939.
Ethan Allen. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940. Illustrated Edition; Portland: Binford & Mort Publishing, 1958.
Tall Timber. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941.
Murder Out Yonder: An Informal Study of Certain Classic Crimes in Back-Country America. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. Reprint: Glenwood, IL: Meyerbooks, 1989.
None More Courageous: American War Heroes of Today. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942.
A Narrative of Schafer Bros. Logging Company's Half Century in the Timber. Seattle: Dogwood Press, 1945.
Burning an Empire: The Study of American Forest Fires. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1945.
Green Commonwealth: A Narrative of the Past and a Look at the Future of One Forest Products Community. Seattle: Dogwood Press, 1945.
Promised Land: A Collection of Northwest Writing. Editor. New York: Whittlesey House, 1945.
Lost Men of American History. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946.
The Story of American Railroads. New York: Crown Publishers, 1947.
Little Annie Oakley & Other Rugged People. New York. The Macmillan Company, 1948.
Northwest Corner: Oregon and Washington, the Last Frontier. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1948.
America's Ethan Allen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1949. The Yankee Exodus: An Account of Migration from New England. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950.
The Portland Story. Portland: Lipman Wolfe & Co., 1951.
Far Corner: A Personal View of the Pacific Northwest. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1952. Reprint: Sausalito, CA: Comstock Editions, Inc., 1987.
Saga of the Saw Files. Portland: Armstrong Manufacturing Co., 1952.
Wild Bill Hickok Tames the West. New York: Random House, 1952.
The Age of the Moguls. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. Reprint: Salem, N.H.: Ayer Co. Publications, Inc.
Down on the Farm, A Picture History of Country Life in America in the Good Old Days. New York: Crown Publishing, Inc., 1954. (Commentary by Holbrook; pictures assembled & collected by Milton Rugoff.)
James J. Hill: A Great Life in Brief. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955.
Machines of Plenty: Pioneering in American Agriculture. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1955.
Davy Crockett. New York: Random House, 1955.
Wyatt Earp: U.S. Marshall. New York: Random House, 1956.
The Columbia. New York: Rinehart & Co., 1956. Reprint: Sausalito, CA: Comstock Editions, 1991.
The Rocky Mountain Revolution. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1956.
Dreamers of the American Dream. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957.
The Swamp Fox of the Revolution. New York: Random House, 1957.
Mr. Otis. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1958.
The Golden Age of Quackery. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959.
The Golden Age of Railroads. New York: Random House, 1960.
Yankee Logger: A Recollection of Woodsmen, Cooks and River Drivers. New York: International Paper Co., 1961.
The Old Post Road: The Story of the Boston Post Road. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1962.
The Pacific Northwest. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963. (Co-author with Nard Jones and Roderick Haig-Brown. Edited by Anthony Netboy.)
The Wonderful West. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963.
The Columbia River. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965.
Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistlepunks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest. (Edited and introduced by Brian Booth.) Oregon State University Press, 1992.
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Some ISBN numbers here for youall too.
****
Holy Old Mackinaw: A Natural History of the American Lumberjack (1938) ISBN 1-112-55989-2
Let Them Live (1938)
Iron Brew: A Century of American Ore and Steel (1939)
Ethan Allen (1940) ISBN 1-121-69376-8
Tall Timber (1941)
Murder Out Yonder: An Informal Study of Certain Classic Crimes in Back-Country America (1941)
None More Courageous: American War Heroes of Today (1942) ISBN 1-122-08926-0
A Narrative of Schafer Bros. Logging Company's Half Century in the Timber (1945)
Burning an Empire: The Study of American Forest Fires (1945)
Green Commonwealth: A Narrative of the Past and a Look at the Future of One Forest Products Community (1945) ISBN 1-122-25043-6, ISBN 1-127-02722-0
Promised Land: A Collection of Northwest Writing (1945)
Lost Men of American History (1946) ISBN 1-299-10049-X, ISBN 1-117-36274-4 ISBN 1-117-51286-X
The Story of American Railroads (1947) ISBN 1-117-04750-4 ISBN 1-122-15378-3
Little Annie Oakley & Other Rugged People (1948) ISBN 1-125-58757-1
(with Henry Sheldon) Northwest Corner: Oregon and Washington: the Last Frontier (1948) ISBN 1-199-18651-1
America's Ethan Allen (1949) ISBN 1-112-12168-4
Yankee Exodus: an Account of Migration (1950) ISBN 1-125-30990-3
The Portland Story (1951)
Far Corner: A Personal View of the Pacific Northwest (1952) ISBN 1-199-10824-3
Saga of the Saw Files (1952)
(with Ernest Richardson) Wild Bill Hickok Tames the West (1952)
Age of the Moguls (1985) ISBN 0517556790 (Original work published 1954)
(with Milton Rugoff) Down on the Farm, A Picture History of Country Life in America in the Good Old Days (1954) ISBN 1-122-18476-X
James J. Hill: A Great Life in Brief (1955)
Machines of Plenty: Pioneering in American Agriculture (1955) ISBN 1-117-17900-1 ISBN 1-199-05586-7
Davy Crockett (1955)
Wyatt Earp: U.S. Marshall (1956)
The Columbia (Rivers of America Series) (1956) ISBN 1-117-17992-3
The Rocky Mountain Revolution (1956) ISBN 1-117-11464-3 ISBN 1-122-05229-4
Dreamers of the American Dream (1957) ISBN 1-112-13685-1
(with Ernest Richardson) Swamp Fox of the Revolution (1957) ISBN 1-299-86718-9
Mr. Otis (1958) ISBN 1-117-37983-3 ISBN 1-199-11100-7
The Golden Age of Quackery (1959)
The Golden Age of Railroads (1960)
Yankee Logger: A Recollection of Woodsmen, Cooks and River Drivers (1961)
The Old Post Road: The Story of the Boston Post Road (1962)
(with Nard Jones and Roderick Haig-Brown)
The Pacific Northwest (1963) ISBN 1-199-96306-2 ISBN 1-117-12249-2
The Wonderful West (1963)
The Columbia River (1965)
Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistle Punks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest (1992) - an anthology of his writings. ISBN 0-87071-367-1
....
Stewart Holbrook's wife. He married Miss Sybil Theona Walker of Oregon. The Sunday Oregonian newspaper has 2 good articles about them. The 1st was May 2nd, 1948 announcing their wedding in Boston, Massachusetts. The 2nd article dated September 11th, 1977 is a society article after his death and her second marriage.
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New York Times Obituary For Stewart Hall Holbrook - September 4, 1964
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 3 (AP)—Stewart H. Holbrook, author and historian, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in a hospital here today. He was 71 years old.
Mr. Holbrook wrote about Americana. In countless magazine articles and in more than 20 books, he explored its folk heroes, its mores and its history.
Among the many books he wrote were "Dreamers of the American Dream," "Far Corner, A Personal View of the Pacific Northwest," "The Age of the Moguls," "The Old Post Road," "The Story of American RailRoads" and "Iron Brew and The Columbia."
He was considered a popular historian who wrote lively and informal books on such topics as forest fires, the lumber industry, the Columbia River and the exodus of Yankees from New England.
Mr. Holbrook was part of the exodus he documented. He was; a Vermonter who moved to the Pacific Northwest and settled there.
He took the Northwest as his literary province. With a gift for research, he dug into its history, unearthing its gaudy color and raffish personalities.
His books were noted for their odd facts as much as for their odd subjects. While most historians concentrated on the mainstream of American history, Mr. Holbrook explored its eddies and backwaters.
He wanted as a writer, he once said, "to put into books the figures and portions of American history that I think have been largely ignored, or badly treated."
Mr. Holbrook was born on Aug. 22, 1893, of what he called "old‐line Yankee stock." He attended school in Newport and Lemington, Vt., and was a student at the Colebrook (N. H.) Academy.
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At the age of 18, he went west to Winnipeg, Man., where he worked for a newspaper, played semi‐professional baseball and toured Canada's western provinces with an acting company.
Mr. Holbrook returned to New England in 1911 to work as a logger, like his father. This was interrupted by World War I, in which he saw action in France.
He returned to logging in New England in 1919. A year later, he traveled to Vancouver. B. C., to join a logging camp on the Fraser River and then another on the British Columbia coast.
It was there, he said, that he began writing. After selling some essays and articles, he abandoned logging in 1923 and became a staff member of The Lumber News, a trade magazine and newspaper.
Mr. Holbrook's assignment was to cover the entire Pacific Northwest. Forest fires, murders, logging camp and sawmill strikes were his beats.
Besides filing for The Lumber News, he also was a freelance writer for The Portland Mornmg Oregonian and national magazines.
In 1934, he resigned to become a freelance writer full time. His first book, "Holy Old Mackinaw," published in 1938, was about lumberjacks.
Mr. Holbrook said in later years that it was H. L. Mencken who had given him encouragement. He added, however, that it was the late Harold Ross, who became editor of The New Yorker, who sent him his first check for an article.
"It was for $5, but later, when he had The New Yorker, my checks were a little larger," Mr. Holbrook said in his Yankee twang and with his Yankee sense of humor.
Mr. Holbrook then settled in Seattle and wrote about a book a year. In World War II, he served in the summers with the Division of Forestry. directing an antiforest‐fire program in the state of Washington.
Last year, Mr. Holbrook won the distinguished service award of American Forest Products Industries, Inc. The award cited him for his contribution to better public understanding of forests, conservation and the role of forest industries.
In 1948, Mr. Holbrook married the former Miss Sybil Walker of Portland, Oregon.
Thank you Jan McKee, John Haines, and C.A. Fink.
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Bio;
Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Garden State Historian
Stewart Hall Holbrook
Spouse :
Miss Sybil Theona Walker became with the marriage.
Mrs.Sibyl Theona Walker Holbrook
****
Oregon in Portland's Stewart Hall Holbrook became a leading American journalist and historian by writing what he himself called "lowbrow" or "non-stuffed shirt history." His writings, sense of humor, and social criticism also made him a sort of combination of Will Rogers, Mark Twain and H.L. Mencken for Portland in the Pacific Northwest.
Holbrook helped record in a readable and colorful manner the lowbrow history of this region, which was generally overlooked by many historians during his lifetime only recently has become a subject for academic study by the "New Western Historians." Holbrook's trail through the Northwest was a very different type of Oregon Trail than Chambers of Commerce promoted or the conventional heroic view of the pioneers/missionaries of the West that prevailed during his lifetime. Holbrook's writings reflect his sympathy for and romanticizing of loggers and other workers, underdogs, visionaries and fanatics, his interest in the humorous and offbeat, and his penchant for puncturing myths and poking fun at stuffed-shirts and hypocrites from all walks of life.
Holbrook's career was remarkable when considered that when he moved to Portland in 1923 when he was a 30 year old unemployed ex-logger without any high school degree.
By the time of his death, the former logger had become an almost legendary figure for anyone in the Pacific Northwest with an interest in writing, journalism, history, current affairs, or the area's leading industry forestry products. His byline in magazines and newspapers, including The Oregonian for 36 years, was known to readers across the country. Author of over three dozen books he being one of the nation's most popular historians/commentators, he taught at Harvard University, lectured at Reed and was known as the "Lumberjack Boswell." He was the nation's leading spokesperson for what he called the "Far Corner" Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. As one scholar recently wrote, "he single-handedly put the region on the literary map in the mid-20th century."
But Holbrook's celebrity also came from his reputation as a "24-karat character": a witty raconteur and storyteller; a colorful dresser in his derby or rumpled stetson, who carried a snoose can in his pocket; and an irreverent and skeptical social critic who gleefully took on institutions such as the Church, Chambers of Commerce and the "Cult of the Pioneers." His circle of friends was scattered from Madison Avenue to skidroads, and included H.L. Mencken, Alfred Knopf, Bernard DeVoto, and assorted executives, college presidents, loggers, radicals and Wobblies. To date (A.D. 2013), Holbrook is the only writer to have served as Grand Marshall of Portland's famed Rose Parade.
Holbrook was an early forest conservationist and an advocate of sustained yield forestry. As the founder and leading spokesperson of the imaginary James G. Blaine Society, Holbrook campaigned against unplanned population growth and development in the Pacific Northwest. His concern about the problems that growth would bring to the Pacific Northwest preceded by many years the similar concerns of Oregon Governor Tom McCall and today's environmental organizations.
Holbrook was the patron and fictive alter-ego of the remarkable Mr. Otis, founder of the Primitive-Moderne School of art. Mr. Otis's paintings explore the same historical subjects Holbrook wrote about. Colorful, entertaining, and satirical, they depict historical events and his environmental and political concerns while parodying styles of contemporary art from his era. Holbrook's sophisticated understanding of modern art was applied in a whimsical manner, inasmuch as he used humor in his writing.
From the end of World War II until his death in 1964, Holbrook was perhaps the Pacific Northwest's best-known personality. The press covered his books, his travels, his views on current issues, and the famous people who came to Portland to visit the Holbrooks. One would have to turn to the very different Norman Mailer in the in New York of the '60s and '70s for a literary figure who was so omnipresent and highly visible in a major community.
One of the few residents of our region with a national reputation in any field, his celebrity was a matter of local pride. In those days before TV, the Global Village and the Trail Blazers, Holbrook linked the remote Northwest with the glamorous world of publishing and entertainment headquartered in New York City, New York.
Ironically, for a writer and public figure who specialized in "lost men and women of American history," Holbrook's fame did not last long after his death, and he became one of the lost men he wrote about. Proposals to honor Holbrook with statues and memorials never came about. His books gradually went out of print.
A few he wrote below here now:
Holy Old Mackinaw: A Natural History of the American Lumberjack; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. New, Enlarged Edition; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1956. Reprint: Sausalito, CA: Comstock Editions, Inc., 1979.
Let Them Live. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938.
Iron Brew: A Century of American Ore and Steel. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1939.
Ethan Allen. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940. Illustrated Edition; Portland: Binford & Mort Publishing, 1958.
Tall Timber. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941.
Murder Out Yonder: An Informal Study of Certain Classic Crimes in Back-Country America. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. Reprint: Glenwood, IL: Meyerbooks, 1989.
None More Courageous: American War Heroes of Today. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942.
A Narrative of Schafer Bros. Logging Company's Half Century in the Timber. Seattle: Dogwood Press, 1945.
Burning an Empire: The Study of American Forest Fires. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1945.
Green Commonwealth: A Narrative of the Past and a Look at the Future of One Forest Products Community. Seattle: Dogwood Press, 1945.
Promised Land: A Collection of Northwest Writing. Editor. New York: Whittlesey House, 1945.
Lost Men of American History. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946.
The Story of American Railroads. New York: Crown Publishers, 1947.
Little Annie Oakley & Other Rugged People. New York. The Macmillan Company, 1948.
Northwest Corner: Oregon and Washington, the Last Frontier. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1948.
America's Ethan Allen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1949. The Yankee Exodus: An Account of Migration from New England. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950.
The Portland Story. Portland: Lipman Wolfe & Co., 1951.
Far Corner: A Personal View of the Pacific Northwest. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1952. Reprint: Sausalito, CA: Comstock Editions, Inc., 1987.
Saga of the Saw Files. Portland: Armstrong Manufacturing Co., 1952.
Wild Bill Hickok Tames the West. New York: Random House, 1952.
The Age of the Moguls. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. Reprint: Salem, N.H.: Ayer Co. Publications, Inc.
Down on the Farm, A Picture History of Country Life in America in the Good Old Days. New York: Crown Publishing, Inc., 1954. (Commentary by Holbrook; pictures assembled & collected by Milton Rugoff.)
James J. Hill: A Great Life in Brief. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955.
Machines of Plenty: Pioneering in American Agriculture. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1955.
Davy Crockett. New York: Random House, 1955.
Wyatt Earp: U.S. Marshall. New York: Random House, 1956.
The Columbia. New York: Rinehart & Co., 1956. Reprint: Sausalito, CA: Comstock Editions, 1991.
The Rocky Mountain Revolution. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1956.
Dreamers of the American Dream. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957.
The Swamp Fox of the Revolution. New York: Random House, 1957.
Mr. Otis. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1958.
The Golden Age of Quackery. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959.
The Golden Age of Railroads. New York: Random House, 1960.
Yankee Logger: A Recollection of Woodsmen, Cooks and River Drivers. New York: International Paper Co., 1961.
The Old Post Road: The Story of the Boston Post Road. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1962.
The Pacific Northwest. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963. (Co-author with Nard Jones and Roderick Haig-Brown. Edited by Anthony Netboy.)
The Wonderful West. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963.
The Columbia River. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965.
Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistlepunks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest. (Edited and introduced by Brian Booth.) Oregon State University Press, 1992.
:::::
Some ISBN numbers here for youall too.
****
Holy Old Mackinaw: A Natural History of the American Lumberjack (1938) ISBN 1-112-55989-2
Let Them Live (1938)
Iron Brew: A Century of American Ore and Steel (1939)
Ethan Allen (1940) ISBN 1-121-69376-8
Tall Timber (1941)
Murder Out Yonder: An Informal Study of Certain Classic Crimes in Back-Country America (1941)
None More Courageous: American War Heroes of Today (1942) ISBN 1-122-08926-0
A Narrative of Schafer Bros. Logging Company's Half Century in the Timber (1945)
Burning an Empire: The Study of American Forest Fires (1945)
Green Commonwealth: A Narrative of the Past and a Look at the Future of One Forest Products Community (1945) ISBN 1-122-25043-6, ISBN 1-127-02722-0
Promised Land: A Collection of Northwest Writing (1945)
Lost Men of American History (1946) ISBN 1-299-10049-X, ISBN 1-117-36274-4 ISBN 1-117-51286-X
The Story of American Railroads (1947) ISBN 1-117-04750-4 ISBN 1-122-15378-3
Little Annie Oakley & Other Rugged People (1948) ISBN 1-125-58757-1
(with Henry Sheldon) Northwest Corner: Oregon and Washington: the Last Frontier (1948) ISBN 1-199-18651-1
America's Ethan Allen (1949) ISBN 1-112-12168-4
Yankee Exodus: an Account of Migration (1950) ISBN 1-125-30990-3
The Portland Story (1951)
Far Corner: A Personal View of the Pacific Northwest (1952) ISBN 1-199-10824-3
Saga of the Saw Files (1952)
(with Ernest Richardson) Wild Bill Hickok Tames the West (1952)
Age of the Moguls (1985) ISBN 0517556790 (Original work published 1954)
(with Milton Rugoff) Down on the Farm, A Picture History of Country Life in America in the Good Old Days (1954) ISBN 1-122-18476-X
James J. Hill: A Great Life in Brief (1955)
Machines of Plenty: Pioneering in American Agriculture (1955) ISBN 1-117-17900-1 ISBN 1-199-05586-7
Davy Crockett (1955)
Wyatt Earp: U.S. Marshall (1956)
The Columbia (Rivers of America Series) (1956) ISBN 1-117-17992-3
The Rocky Mountain Revolution (1956) ISBN 1-117-11464-3 ISBN 1-122-05229-4
Dreamers of the American Dream (1957) ISBN 1-112-13685-1
(with Ernest Richardson) Swamp Fox of the Revolution (1957) ISBN 1-299-86718-9
Mr. Otis (1958) ISBN 1-117-37983-3 ISBN 1-199-11100-7
The Golden Age of Quackery (1959)
The Golden Age of Railroads (1960)
Yankee Logger: A Recollection of Woodsmen, Cooks and River Drivers (1961)
The Old Post Road: The Story of the Boston Post Road (1962)
(with Nard Jones and Roderick Haig-Brown)
The Pacific Northwest (1963) ISBN 1-199-96306-2 ISBN 1-117-12249-2
The Wonderful West (1963)
The Columbia River (1965)
Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistle Punks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest (1992) - an anthology of his writings. ISBN 0-87071-367-1
....
Stewart Holbrook's wife. He married Miss Sybil Theona Walker of Oregon. The Sunday Oregonian newspaper has 2 good articles about them. The 1st was May 2nd, 1948 announcing their wedding in Boston, Massachusetts. The 2nd article dated September 11th, 1977 is a society article after his death and her second marriage.
.....
..................................
New York Times Obituary For Stewart Hall Holbrook - September 4, 1964
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 3 (AP)—Stewart H. Holbrook, author and historian, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in a hospital here today. He was 71 years old.
Mr. Holbrook wrote about Americana. In countless magazine articles and in more than 20 books, he explored its folk heroes, its mores and its history.
Among the many books he wrote were "Dreamers of the American Dream," "Far Corner, A Personal View of the Pacific Northwest," "The Age of the Moguls," "The Old Post Road," "The Story of American RailRoads" and "Iron Brew and The Columbia."
He was considered a popular historian who wrote lively and informal books on such topics as forest fires, the lumber industry, the Columbia River and the exodus of Yankees from New England.
Mr. Holbrook was part of the exodus he documented. He was; a Vermonter who moved to the Pacific Northwest and settled there.
He took the Northwest as his literary province. With a gift for research, he dug into its history, unearthing its gaudy color and raffish personalities.
His books were noted for their odd facts as much as for their odd subjects. While most historians concentrated on the mainstream of American history, Mr. Holbrook explored its eddies and backwaters.
He wanted as a writer, he once said, "to put into books the figures and portions of American history that I think have been largely ignored, or badly treated."
Mr. Holbrook was born on Aug. 22, 1893, of what he called "old‐line Yankee stock." He attended school in Newport and Lemington, Vt., and was a student at the Colebrook (N. H.) Academy.
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At the age of 18, he went west to Winnipeg, Man., where he worked for a newspaper, played semi‐professional baseball and toured Canada's western provinces with an acting company.
Mr. Holbrook returned to New England in 1911 to work as a logger, like his father. This was interrupted by World War I, in which he saw action in France.
He returned to logging in New England in 1919. A year later, he traveled to Vancouver. B. C., to join a logging camp on the Fraser River and then another on the British Columbia coast.
It was there, he said, that he began writing. After selling some essays and articles, he abandoned logging in 1923 and became a staff member of The Lumber News, a trade magazine and newspaper.
Mr. Holbrook's assignment was to cover the entire Pacific Northwest. Forest fires, murders, logging camp and sawmill strikes were his beats.
Besides filing for The Lumber News, he also was a freelance writer for The Portland Mornmg Oregonian and national magazines.
In 1934, he resigned to become a freelance writer full time. His first book, "Holy Old Mackinaw," published in 1938, was about lumberjacks.
Mr. Holbrook said in later years that it was H. L. Mencken who had given him encouragement. He added, however, that it was the late Harold Ross, who became editor of The New Yorker, who sent him his first check for an article.
"It was for $5, but later, when he had The New Yorker, my checks were a little larger," Mr. Holbrook said in his Yankee twang and with his Yankee sense of humor.
Mr. Holbrook then settled in Seattle and wrote about a book a year. In World War II, he served in the summers with the Division of Forestry. directing an antiforest‐fire program in the state of Washington.
Last year, Mr. Holbrook won the distinguished service award of American Forest Products Industries, Inc. The award cited him for his contribution to better public understanding of forests, conservation and the role of forest industries.
In 1948, Mr. Holbrook married the former Miss Sybil Walker of Portland, Oregon.
Thank you Jan McKee, John Haines, and C.A. Fink.
....
...
..
.
Bio;
Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Garden State Historian
Stewart Hall Holbrook ;
Stewart Hall Holbrook
Spouse :
Miss Sybil Theona Walker became with the marriage.
Mrs.Sibyl Theona Walker Holbrook
****
Oregon in Portland's Stewart Hall Holbrook became a leading American journalist and historian by writing what he himself called "lowbrow" or "non-stuffed shirt history." His writings, sense of humor, and social criticism also made him a sort of combination of Will Rogers, Mark Twain and H.L. Mencken for Portland in the Pacific Northwest.
Holbrook helped record in a readable and colorful manner the lowbrow history of this region, which was generally overlooked by many historians during his lifetime only recently has become a subject for academic study by the "New Western Historians." Holbrook's trail through the Northwest was a very different type of Oregon Trail than Chambers of Commerce promoted or the conventional heroic view of the pioneers/missionaries of the West that prevailed during his lifetime. Holbrook's writings reflect his sympathy for and romanticizing of loggers and other workers, underdogs, visionaries and fanatics, his interest in the humorous and offbeat, and his penchant for puncturing myths and poking fun at stuffed-shirts and hypocrites from all walks of life.
Holbrook's career was remarkable when considered that when he moved to Portland in 1923 when he was a 30 year old unemployed ex-logger without any high school degree.
By the time of his death, the former logger had become an almost legendary figure for anyone in the Pacific Northwest with an interest in writing, journalism, history, current affairs, or the area's leading industry forestry products. His byline in magazines and newspapers, including The Oregonian for 36 years, was known to readers across the country. Author of over three dozen books he being one of the nation's most popular historians/commentators, he taught at Harvard University, lectured at Reed and was known as the "Lumberjack Boswell." He was the nation's leading spokesperson for what he called the "Far Corner" Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. As one scholar recently wrote, "he single-handedly put the region on the literary map in the mid-20th century."
But Holbrook's celebrity also came from his reputation as a "24-karat character": a witty raconteur and storyteller; a colorful dresser in his derby or rumpled stetson, who carried a snoose can in his pocket; and an irreverent and skeptical social critic who gleefully took on institutions such as the Church, Chambers of Commerce and the "Cult of the Pioneers." His circle of friends was scattered from Madison Avenue to skidroads, and included H.L. Mencken, Alfred Knopf, Bernard DeVoto, and assorted executives, college presidents, loggers, radicals and Wobblies. To date (A.D. 2013), Holbrook is the only writer to have served as Grand Marshall of Portland's famed Rose Parade.
Holbrook was an early forest conservationist and an advocate of sustained yield forestry. As the founder and leading spokesperson of the imaginary James G. Blaine Society, Holbrook campaigned against unplanned population growth and development in the Pacific Northwest. His concern about the problems that growth would bring to the Pacific Northwest preceded by many years the similar concerns of Oregon Governor Tom McCall and today's environmental organizations.
Holbrook was the patron and fictive alter-ego of the remarkable Mr. Otis, founder of the Primitive-Moderne School of art. Mr. Otis's paintings explore the same historical subjects Holbrook wrote about. Colorful, entertaining, and satirical, they depict historical events and his environmental and political concerns while parodying styles of contemporary art from his era. Holbrook's sophisticated understanding of modern art was applied in a whimsical manner, inasmuch as he used humor in his writing.
From the end of World War II until his death in 1964, Holbrook was perhaps the Pacific Northwest's best-known personality. The press covered his books, his travels, his views on current issues, and the famous people who came to Portland to visit the Holbrooks. One would have to turn to the very different Norman Mailer in the in New York of the '60s and '70s for a literary figure who was so omnipresent and highly visible in a major community.
One of the few residents of our region with a national reputation in any field, his celebrity was a matter of local pride. In those days before TV, the Global Village and the Trail Blazers, Holbrook linked the remote Northwest with the glamorous world of publishing and entertainment headquartered in New York City, New York.
Ironically, for a writer and public figure who specialized in "lost men and women of American history," Holbrook's fame did not last long after his death, and he became one of the lost men he wrote about. Proposals to honor Holbrook with statues and memorials never came about. His books gradually went out of print.
A few he wrote below here now:
Holy Old Mackinaw: A Natural History of the American Lumberjack; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. New, Enlarged Edition; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1956. Reprint: Sausalito, CA: Comstock Editions, Inc., 1979.
Let Them Live. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938.
Iron Brew: A Century of American Ore and Steel. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1939.
Ethan Allen. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940. Illustrated Edition; Portland: Binford & Mort Publishing, 1958.
Tall Timber. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941.
Murder Out Yonder: An Informal Study of Certain Classic Crimes in Back-Country America. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. Reprint: Glenwood, IL: Meyerbooks, 1989.
None More Courageous: American War Heroes of Today. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942.
A Narrative of Schafer Bros. Logging Company's Half Century in the Timber. Seattle: Dogwood Press, 1945.
Burning an Empire: The Study of American Forest Fires. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1945.
Green Commonwealth: A Narrative of the Past and a Look at the Future of One Forest Products Community. Seattle: Dogwood Press, 1945.
Promised Land: A Collection of Northwest Writing. Editor. New York: Whittlesey House, 1945.
Lost Men of American History. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946.
The Story of American Railroads. New York: Crown Publishers, 1947.
Little Annie Oakley & Other Rugged People. New York. The Macmillan Company, 1948.
Northwest Corner: Oregon and Washington, the Last Frontier. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1948.
America's Ethan Allen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1949. The Yankee Exodus: An Account of Migration from New England. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950.
The Portland Story. Portland: Lipman Wolfe & Co., 1951.
Far Corner: A Personal View of the Pacific Northwest. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1952. Reprint: Sausalito, CA: Comstock Editions, Inc., 1987.
Saga of the Saw Files. Portland: Armstrong Manufacturing Co., 1952.
Wild Bill Hickok Tames the West. New York: Random House, 1952.
The Age of the Moguls. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. Reprint: Salem, N.H.: Ayer Co. Publications, Inc.
Down on the Farm, A Picture History of Country Life in America in the Good Old Days. New York: Crown Publishing, Inc., 1954. (Commentary by Holbrook; pictures assembled & collected by Milton Rugoff.)
James J. Hill: A Great Life in Brief. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955.
Machines of Plenty: Pioneering in American Agriculture. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1955.
Davy Crockett. New York: Random House, 1955.
Wyatt Earp: U.S. Marshall. New York: Random House, 1956.
The Columbia. New York: Rinehart & Co., 1956. Reprint: Sausalito, CA: Comstock Editions, 1991.
The Rocky Mountain Revolution. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1956.
Dreamers of the American Dream. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957.
The Swamp Fox of the Revolution. New York: Random House, 1957.
Mr. Otis. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1958.
The Golden Age of Quackery. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959.
The Golden Age of Railroads. New York: Random House, 1960.
Yankee Logger: A Recollection of Woodsmen, Cooks and River Drivers. New York: International Paper Co., 1961.
The Old Post Road: The Story of the Boston Post Road. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1962.
The Pacific Northwest. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963. (Co-author with Nard Jones and Roderick Haig-Brown. Edited by Anthony Netboy.)
The Wonderful West. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963.
The Columbia River. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965.
Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistlepunks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest. (Edited and introduced by Brian Booth.) Oregon State University Press, 1992.
:::::
Some ISBN numbers here for youall too.
****
Holy Old Mackinaw: A Natural History of the American Lumberjack (1938) ISBN 1-112-55989-2
Let Them Live (1938)
Iron Brew: A Century of American Ore and Steel (1939)
Ethan Allen (1940) ISBN 1-121-69376-8
Tall Timber (1941)
Murder Out Yonder: An Informal Study of Certain Classic Crimes in Back-Country America (1941)
None More Courageous: American War Heroes of Today (1942) ISBN 1-122-08926-0
A Narrative of Schafer Bros. Logging Company's Half Century in the Timber (1945)
Burning an Empire: The Study of American Forest Fires (1945)
Green Commonwealth: A Narrative of the Past and a Look at the Future of One Forest Products Community (1945) ISBN 1-122-25043-6, ISBN 1-127-02722-0
Promised Land: A Collection of Northwest Writing (1945)
Lost Men of American History (1946) ISBN 1-299-10049-X, ISBN 1-117-36274-4 ISBN 1-117-51286-X
The Story of American Railroads (1947) ISBN 1-117-04750-4 ISBN 1-122-15378-3
Little Annie Oakley & Other Rugged People (1948) ISBN 1-125-58757-1
(with Henry Sheldon) Northwest Corner: Oregon and Washington: the Last Frontier (1948) ISBN 1-199-18651-1
America's Ethan Allen (1949) ISBN 1-112-12168-4
Yankee Exodus: an Account of Migration (1950) ISBN 1-125-30990-3
The Portland Story (1951)
Far Corner: A Personal View of the Pacific Northwest (1952) ISBN 1-199-10824-3
Saga of the Saw Files (1952)
(with Ernest Richardson) Wild Bill Hickok Tames the West (1952)
Age of the Moguls (1985) ISBN 0517556790 (Original work published 1954)
(with Milton Rugoff) Down on the Farm, A Picture History of Country Life in America in the Good Old Days (1954) ISBN 1-122-18476-X
James J. Hill: A Great Life in Brief (1955)
Machines of Plenty: Pioneering in American Agriculture (1955) ISBN 1-117-17900-1 ISBN 1-199-05586-7
Davy Crockett (1955)
Wyatt Earp: U.S. Marshall (1956)
The Columbia (Rivers of America Series) (1956) ISBN 1-117-17992-3
The Rocky Mountain Revolution (1956) ISBN 1-117-11464-3 ISBN 1-122-05229-4
Dreamers of the American Dream (1957) ISBN 1-112-13685-1
(with Ernest Richardson) Swamp Fox of the Revolution (1957) ISBN 1-299-86718-9
Mr. Otis (1958) ISBN 1-117-37983-3 ISBN 1-199-11100-7
The Golden Age of Quackery (1959)
The Golden Age of Railroads (1960)
Yankee Logger: A Recollection of Woodsmen, Cooks and River Drivers (1961)
The Old Post Road: The Story of the Boston Post Road (1962)
(with Nard Jones and Roderick Haig-Brown)
The Pacific Northwest (1963) ISBN 1-199-96306-2 ISBN 1-117-12249-2
The Wonderful West (1963)
The Columbia River (1965)
Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistle Punks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest (1992) - an anthology of his writings. ISBN 0-87071-367-1
....
Stewart Holbrook's wife. He married Miss Sybil Theona Walker of Oregon. The Sunday Oregonian newspaper has 2 good articles about them. The 1st was May 2nd, 1948 announcing their wedding in Boston, Massachusetts. The 2nd article dated September 11th, 1977 is a society article after his death and her second marriage.
.....
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New York Times Obituary For Stewart Hall Holbrook - September 4, 1964
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 3 (AP)—Stewart H. Holbrook, author and historian, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in a hospital here today. He was 71 years old.
Mr. Holbrook wrote about Americana. In countless magazine articles and in more than 20 books, he explored its folk heroes, its mores and its history.
Among the many books he wrote were "Dreamers of the American Dream," "Far Corner, A Personal View of the Pacific Northwest," "The Age of the Moguls," "The Old Post Road," "The Story of American RailRoads" and "Iron Brew and The Columbia."
He was considered a popular historian who wrote lively and informal books on such topics as forest fires, the lumber industry, the Columbia River and the exodus of Yankees from New England.
Mr. Holbrook was part of the exodus he documented. He was; a Vermonter who moved to the Pacific Northwest and settled there.
He took the Northwest as his literary province. With a gift for research, he dug into its history, unearthing its gaudy color and raffish personalities.
His books were noted for their odd facts as much as for their odd subjects. While most historians concentrated on the mainstream of American history, Mr. Holbrook explored its eddies and backwaters.
He wanted as a writer, he once said, "to put into books the figures and portions of American history that I think have been largely ignored, or badly treated."
Mr. Holbrook was born on Aug. 22, 1893, of what he called "old‐line Yankee stock." He attended school in Newport and Lemington, Vt., and was a student at the Colebrook (N. H.) Academy.
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At the age of 18, he went west to Winnipeg, Man., where he worked for a newspaper, played semi‐professional baseball and toured Canada's western provinces with an acting company.
Mr. Holbrook returned to New England in 1911 to work as a logger, like his father. This was interrupted by World War I, in which he saw action in France.
He returned to logging in New England in 1919. A year later, he traveled to Vancouver. B. C., to join a logging camp on the Fraser River and then another on the British Columbia coast.
It was there, he said, that he began writing. After selling some essays and articles, he abandoned logging in 1923 and became a staff member of The Lumber News, a trade magazine and newspaper.
Mr. Holbrook's assignment was to cover the entire Pacific Northwest. Forest fires, murders, logging camp and sawmill strikes were his beats.
Besides filing for The Lumber News, he also was a freelance writer for The Portland Mornmg Oregonian and national magazines.
In 1934, he resigned to become a freelance writer full time. His first book, "Holy Old Mackinaw," published in 1938, was about lumberjacks.
Mr. Holbrook said in later years that it was H. L. Mencken who had given him encouragement. He added, however, that it was the late Harold Ross, who became editor of The New Yorker, who sent him his first check for an article.
"It was for $5, but later, when he had The New Yorker, my checks were a little larger," Mr. Holbrook said in his Yankee twang and with his Yankee sense of humor.
Mr. Holbrook then settled in Seattle and wrote about a book a year. In World War II, he served in the summers with the Division of Forestry. directing an antiforest‐fire program in the state of Washington.
Last year, Mr. Holbrook won the distinguished service award of American Forest Products Industries, Inc. The award cited him for his contribution to better public understanding of forests, conservation and the role of forest industries.
In 1948, Mr. Holbrook married the former Miss Sybil Walker of Portland, Oregon.
Thank you Jan McKee, John Haines, and C.A. Fink.
....
...
..
.
Bio;
Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Garden State Historian
Stewart Hall Holbrook
Spouse :
Miss Sybil Theona Walker became with the marriage.
Mrs.Sibyl Theona Walker Holbrook
****
Oregon in Portland's Stewart Hall Holbrook became a leading American journalist and historian by writing what he himself called "lowbrow" or "non-stuffed shirt history." His writings, sense of humor, and social criticism also made him a sort of combination of Will Rogers, Mark Twain and H.L. Mencken for Portland in the Pacific Northwest.
Holbrook helped record in a readable and colorful manner the lowbrow history of this region, which was generally overlooked by many historians during his lifetime only recently has become a subject for academic study by the "New Western Historians." Holbrook's trail through the Northwest was a very different type of Oregon Trail than Chambers of Commerce promoted or the conventional heroic view of the pioneers/missionaries of the West that prevailed during his lifetime. Holbrook's writings reflect his sympathy for and romanticizing of loggers and other workers, underdogs, visionaries and fanatics, his interest in the humorous and offbeat, and his penchant for puncturing myths and poking fun at stuffed-shirts and hypocrites from all walks of life.
Holbrook's career was remarkable when considered that when he moved to Portland in 1923 when he was a 30 year old unemployed ex-logger without any high school degree.
By the time of his death, the former logger had become an almost legendary figure for anyone in the Pacific Northwest with an interest in writing, journalism, history, current affairs, or the area's leading industry forestry products. His byline in magazines and newspapers, including The Oregonian for 36 years, was known to readers across the country. Author of over three dozen books he being one of the nation's most popular historians/commentators, he taught at Harvard University, lectured at Reed and was known as the "Lumberjack Boswell." He was the nation's leading spokesperson for what he called the "Far Corner" Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. As one scholar recently wrote, "he single-handedly put the region on the literary map in the mid-20th century."
But Holbrook's celebrity also came from his reputation as a "24-karat character": a witty raconteur and storyteller; a colorful dresser in his derby or rumpled stetson, who carried a snoose can in his pocket; and an irreverent and skeptical social critic who gleefully took on institutions such as the Church, Chambers of Commerce and the "Cult of the Pioneers." His circle of friends was scattered from Madison Avenue to skidroads, and included H.L. Mencken, Alfred Knopf, Bernard DeVoto, and assorted executives, college presidents, loggers, radicals and Wobblies. To date (A.D. 2013), Holbrook is the only writer to have served as Grand Marshall of Portland's famed Rose Parade.
Holbrook was an early forest conservationist and an advocate of sustained yield forestry. As the founder and leading spokesperson of the imaginary James G. Blaine Society, Holbrook campaigned against unplanned population growth and development in the Pacific Northwest. His concern about the problems that growth would bring to the Pacific Northwest preceded by many years the similar concerns of Oregon Governor Tom McCall and today's environmental organizations.
Holbrook was the patron and fictive alter-ego of the remarkable Mr. Otis, founder of the Primitive-Moderne School of art. Mr. Otis's paintings explore the same historical subjects Holbrook wrote about. Colorful, entertaining, and satirical, they depict historical events and his environmental and political concerns while parodying styles of contemporary art from his era. Holbrook's sophisticated understanding of modern art was applied in a whimsical manner, inasmuch as he used humor in his writing.
From the end of World War II until his death in 1964, Holbrook was perhaps the Pacific Northwest's best-known personality. The press covered his books, his travels, his views on current issues, and the famous people who came to Portland to visit the Holbrooks. One would have to turn to the very different Norman Mailer in the in New York of the '60s and '70s for a literary figure who was so omnipresent and highly visible in a major community.
One of the few residents of our region with a national reputation in any field, his celebrity was a matter of local pride. In those days before TV, the Global Village and the Trail Blazers, Holbrook linked the remote Northwest with the glamorous world of publishing and entertainment headquartered in New York City, New York.
Ironically, for a writer and public figure who specialized in "lost men and women of American history," Holbrook's fame did not last long after his death, and he became one of the lost men he wrote about. Proposals to honor Holbrook with statues and memorials never came about. His books gradually went out of print.
A few he wrote below here now:
Holy Old Mackinaw: A Natural History of the American Lumberjack; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. New, Enlarged Edition; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1956. Reprint: Sausalito, CA: Comstock Editions, Inc., 1979.
Let Them Live. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938.
Iron Brew: A Century of American Ore and Steel. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1939.
Ethan Allen. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940. Illustrated Edition; Portland: Binford & Mort Publishing, 1958.
Tall Timber. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941.
Murder Out Yonder: An Informal Study of Certain Classic Crimes in Back-Country America. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. Reprint: Glenwood, IL: Meyerbooks, 1989.
None More Courageous: American War Heroes of Today. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942.
A Narrative of Schafer Bros. Logging Company's Half Century in the Timber. Seattle: Dogwood Press, 1945.
Burning an Empire: The Study of American Forest Fires. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1945.
Green Commonwealth: A Narrative of the Past and a Look at the Future of One Forest Products Community. Seattle: Dogwood Press, 1945.
Promised Land: A Collection of Northwest Writing. Editor. New York: Whittlesey House, 1945.
Lost Men of American History. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946.
The Story of American Railroads. New York: Crown Publishers, 1947.
Little Annie Oakley & Other Rugged People. New York. The Macmillan Company, 1948.
Northwest Corner: Oregon and Washington, the Last Frontier. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1948.
America's Ethan Allen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1949. The Yankee Exodus: An Account of Migration from New England. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950.
The Portland Story. Portland: Lipman Wolfe & Co., 1951.
Far Corner: A Personal View of the Pacific Northwest. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1952. Reprint: Sausalito, CA: Comstock Editions, Inc., 1987.
Saga of the Saw Files. Portland: Armstrong Manufacturing Co., 1952.
Wild Bill Hickok Tames the West. New York: Random House, 1952.
The Age of the Moguls. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. Reprint: Salem, N.H.: Ayer Co. Publications, Inc.
Down on the Farm, A Picture History of Country Life in America in the Good Old Days. New York: Crown Publishing, Inc., 1954. (Commentary by Holbrook; pictures assembled & collected by Milton Rugoff.)
James J. Hill: A Great Life in Brief. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955.
Machines of Plenty: Pioneering in American Agriculture. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1955.
Davy Crockett. New York: Random House, 1955.
Wyatt Earp: U.S. Marshall. New York: Random House, 1956.
The Columbia. New York: Rinehart & Co., 1956. Reprint: Sausalito, CA: Comstock Editions, 1991.
The Rocky Mountain Revolution. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1956.
Dreamers of the American Dream. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957.
The Swamp Fox of the Revolution. New York: Random House, 1957.
Mr. Otis. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1958.
The Golden Age of Quackery. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959.
The Golden Age of Railroads. New York: Random House, 1960.
Yankee Logger: A Recollection of Woodsmen, Cooks and River Drivers. New York: International Paper Co., 1961.
The Old Post Road: The Story of the Boston Post Road. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1962.
The Pacific Northwest. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963. (Co-author with Nard Jones and Roderick Haig-Brown. Edited by Anthony Netboy.)
The Wonderful West. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963.
The Columbia River. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965.
Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistlepunks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest. (Edited and introduced by Brian Booth.) Oregon State University Press, 1992.
:::::
Some ISBN numbers here for youall too.
****
Holy Old Mackinaw: A Natural History of the American Lumberjack (1938) ISBN 1-112-55989-2
Let Them Live (1938)
Iron Brew: A Century of American Ore and Steel (1939)
Ethan Allen (1940) ISBN 1-121-69376-8
Tall Timber (1941)
Murder Out Yonder: An Informal Study of Certain Classic Crimes in Back-Country America (1941)
None More Courageous: American War Heroes of Today (1942) ISBN 1-122-08926-0
A Narrative of Schafer Bros. Logging Company's Half Century in the Timber (1945)
Burning an Empire: The Study of American Forest Fires (1945)
Green Commonwealth: A Narrative of the Past and a Look at the Future of One Forest Products Community (1945) ISBN 1-122-25043-6, ISBN 1-127-02722-0
Promised Land: A Collection of Northwest Writing (1945)
Lost Men of American History (1946) ISBN 1-299-10049-X, ISBN 1-117-36274-4 ISBN 1-117-51286-X
The Story of American Railroads (1947) ISBN 1-117-04750-4 ISBN 1-122-15378-3
Little Annie Oakley & Other Rugged People (1948) ISBN 1-125-58757-1
(with Henry Sheldon) Northwest Corner: Oregon and Washington: the Last Frontier (1948) ISBN 1-199-18651-1
America's Ethan Allen (1949) ISBN 1-112-12168-4
Yankee Exodus: an Account of Migration (1950) ISBN 1-125-30990-3
The Portland Story (1951)
Far Corner: A Personal View of the Pacific Northwest (1952) ISBN 1-199-10824-3
Saga of the Saw Files (1952)
(with Ernest Richardson) Wild Bill Hickok Tames the West (1952)
Age of the Moguls (1985) ISBN 0517556790 (Original work published 1954)
(with Milton Rugoff) Down on the Farm, A Picture History of Country Life in America in the Good Old Days (1954) ISBN 1-122-18476-X
James J. Hill: A Great Life in Brief (1955)
Machines of Plenty: Pioneering in American Agriculture (1955) ISBN 1-117-17900-1 ISBN 1-199-05586-7
Davy Crockett (1955)
Wyatt Earp: U.S. Marshall (1956)
The Columbia (Rivers of America Series) (1956) ISBN 1-117-17992-3
The Rocky Mountain Revolution (1956) ISBN 1-117-11464-3 ISBN 1-122-05229-4
Dreamers of the American Dream (1957) ISBN 1-112-13685-1
(with Ernest Richardson) Swamp Fox of the Revolution (1957) ISBN 1-299-86718-9
Mr. Otis (1958) ISBN 1-117-37983-3 ISBN 1-199-11100-7
The Golden Age of Quackery (1959)
The Golden Age of Railroads (1960)
Yankee Logger: A Recollection of Woodsmen, Cooks and River Drivers (1961)
The Old Post Road: The Story of the Boston Post Road (1962)
(with Nard Jones and Roderick Haig-Brown)
The Pacific Northwest (1963) ISBN 1-199-96306-2 ISBN 1-117-12249-2
The Wonderful West (1963)
The Columbia River (1965)
Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistle Punks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest (1992) - an anthology of his writings. ISBN 0-87071-367-1
....
Stewart Holbrook's wife. He married Miss Sybil Theona Walker of Oregon. The Sunday Oregonian newspaper has 2 good articles about them. The 1st was May 2nd, 1948 announcing their wedding in Boston, Massachusetts. The 2nd article dated September 11th, 1977 is a society article after his death and her second marriage.
.....
..................................
New York Times Obituary For Stewart Hall Holbrook - September 4, 1964
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 3 (AP)—Stewart H. Holbrook, author and historian, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in a hospital here today. He was 71 years old.
Mr. Holbrook wrote about Americana. In countless magazine articles and in more than 20 books, he explored its folk heroes, its mores and its history.
Among the many books he wrote were "Dreamers of the American Dream," "Far Corner, A Personal View of the Pacific Northwest," "The Age of the Moguls," "The Old Post Road," "The Story of American RailRoads" and "Iron Brew and The Columbia."
He was considered a popular historian who wrote lively and informal books on such topics as forest fires, the lumber industry, the Columbia River and the exodus of Yankees from New England.
Mr. Holbrook was part of the exodus he documented. He was; a Vermonter who moved to the Pacific Northwest and settled there.
He took the Northwest as his literary province. With a gift for research, he dug into its history, unearthing its gaudy color and raffish personalities.
His books were noted for their odd facts as much as for their odd subjects. While most historians concentrated on the mainstream of American history, Mr. Holbrook explored its eddies and backwaters.
He wanted as a writer, he once said, "to put into books the figures and portions of American history that I think have been largely ignored, or badly treated."
Mr. Holbrook was born on Aug. 22, 1893, of what he called "old‐line Yankee stock." He attended school in Newport and Lemington, Vt., and was a student at the Colebrook (N. H.) Academy.
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At the age of 18, he went west to Winnipeg, Man., where he worked for a newspaper, played semi‐professional baseball and toured Canada's western provinces with an acting company.
Mr. Holbrook returned to New England in 1911 to work as a logger, like his father. This was interrupted by World War I, in which he saw action in France.
He returned to logging in New England in 1919. A year later, he traveled to Vancouver. B. C., to join a logging camp on the Fraser River and then another on the British Columbia coast.
It was there, he said, that he began writing. After selling some essays and articles, he abandoned logging in 1923 and became a staff member of The Lumber News, a trade magazine and newspaper.
Mr. Holbrook's assignment was to cover the entire Pacific Northwest. Forest fires, murders, logging camp and sawmill strikes were his beats.
Besides filing for The Lumber News, he also was a freelance writer for The Portland Mornmg Oregonian and national magazines.
In 1934, he resigned to become a freelance writer full time. His first book, "Holy Old Mackinaw," published in 1938, was about lumberjacks.
Mr. Holbrook said in later years that it was H. L. Mencken who had given him encouragement. He added, however, that it was the late Harold Ross, who became editor of The New Yorker, who sent him his first check for an article.
"It was for $5, but later, when he had The New Yorker, my checks were a little larger," Mr. Holbrook said in his Yankee twang and with his Yankee sense of humor.
Mr. Holbrook then settled in Seattle and wrote about a book a year. In World War II, he served in the summers with the Division of Forestry. directing an antiforest‐fire program in the state of Washington.
Last year, Mr. Holbrook won the distinguished service award of American Forest Products Industries, Inc. The award cited him for his contribution to better public understanding of forests, conservation and the role of forest industries.
In 1948, Mr. Holbrook married the former Miss Sybil Walker of Portland, Oregon.
Thank you Jan McKee, John Haines, and C.A. Fink.
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