Hard Times in Paradise: Coos Bay, Oregon
- ISBN-10
- 0295803312
- ISBN-13
- 9780295803319
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 236
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-07-01
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Author
- William G. Robbins
Description
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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