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The elusive state of Jefferson : a journey through the 51st state
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- Creator
- Peter Laufer, PhD
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Guilford, Connecticut : TwoDot, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press, [2013]
- Physical Details
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- xxiii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780762788361, 0762788364
- OCLC
- ocn841051216
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- What is Jefferson? Foreword by Kathleen Holt -- Where is Jefferson? Foreword by Ralph Lewin -- Preface -- En route to Port Orford: Jefferson's lost capital -- An introduction to hick mayor Gilbert Gable -- A rugged coast's rugged history -- Port Orford pioneer survivors -- Port Orford mayoral dreams: from Portland to Carmel -- Mayor Gable pimps statehood -- Never let the facts stand in the path of a good story -- Liquid journalism -- Is it a real state, or merely the mock? -- Sacramento subsidies -- Smoke and the iconoclastic sheriff -- Double crossed -- The two state solution -- Less is more -- No monument land -- The vacant trailer park -- Calmer voices -- Indian country -- A tentative agreement -- Klamath falls depression -- Vice President Cheney intrudes -- Live from the People's Republic of Ashland -- The Jefferson resurgence -- Journalist turned activist -- Jefferson, the United Nations, and the power of talk shows -- Depopulated wilderness and urban zoos -- Sacred water, sacred life -- Media free-for-all -- There's gold in that there river -- Where it all began -- Drinking with the greenies -- The art of Jefferson -- At the Hempfest and with the State of Jefferson Band
Subjects
- Statehood (American politics)
- Environmentalism -- California, Northern.
- California, Northern -- Politics and government.
- Oregon -- Politics and government.
- California, Northern -- Description and travel.
- Oregon -- Description and travel.
- California, Northern -- Social conditions.
- Oregon -- History -- 20th century.
- California, Northern -- History -- 20th century.