Hard Times in Paradise

Coos Bay, Oregon

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States
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Author: William G. Robbins ISBN: 9780295803319
Publisher: University of Washington Press Publication: July 1, 2011
Imprint: University of Washington Press Language: English
Author: William G. Robbins
ISBN: 9780295803319
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication: July 1, 2011
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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