Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-317) and index.

Moon eclipse exorcism / Alsea -- Thunderstorm exorcism / Alsea -- Morning song / Nez Perce -- Three guardian spirit songs of Mad Coyote / Nez Perce -- Bear / Nehalem Tillamook spirit power songs -- Beaver / Nehalem Tillamook spirit power songs -- Elk / Nehalem Tillamook spirit power songs -- Rabbit / Nehalem Tillamook spirit power songs -- Owl shaman's spirit powr song / Clackamas lyrics -- Bear woman's mourning song / Clackamas lyrics -- Coon's lullaby to Panther's baby boy / Clackamas lyrics -- When it storms in winter / Takelma -- When the new moon appears / Takelma -- A Tualatin shaman named shimxin / Kalapuya -- Song of the wind / Klamath incantations -- Song of the skunk / Klamath incantations -- Song of the black mouse / Klamath incantations -- Song of the blind girl / Klamath incantations -- Showing off song / Klamath songs of satire and social criticism -- Song of false boasting / Klamath songs of satire and social criticism -- Song of gluttony / Klamath songs of satire and social criticism -- Song of the long legged person / Klamath songs of satire and social criticism -- Courting song / Klamath cooing and wooing songs -- Courting song / Klamath cooing and wooing songs -- Taunt / Klamath cooing and wooing songs -- Young woman to lover / Klamath cooing and wooing songs -- Accusation / Klamath cooing and wooing songs -- Playful courting song / Klamath cooing and wooing songs -- The walkers and winged things fought / Coos -- My sweetheart / Coos -- Cradle song / Modoc -- How the animals found their places / Northern Paiute -- The thunder badger / Northern Paiute -- Girls' game / Clackamas -- A Kalapuya prophecy / Kalapuya -- Must my dear companion leave me / Anna Maria Pittman Lee -- To the Oregon emigrants of 1846 -- The bachelor's decision -- A contrast on matrimony / Elizabeth Markham -- We call them savage / Margaret Jewett Bailey -- The Oregon farmer's song / John Minto -- The wreck / Henry H. Baldwin -- Do you hear the women praying / Frances Fuller Victor -- The homeless girl / Henry H. Woodward -- Legend of the Cascades / Samuel A. Clarke -- A specimen / Robert Starkey -- Snow birds / Belle W. Cooke -- Exodus for Oregon / Joaquin Miller -- Pace inplora / Joaquin Miller -- Have mercy / Minnie Myrtle Miller -- Drunk for a week / Anonymous -- Ace Carey and the bear / Willis White -- Beautiful Willamette / Samuel L. Simpson -- The old emigrant road / Carrie Blake Morgan -- Faith / Carrie Blake Morgan -- The beginning of the earth / Sam Wata -- The man with the hoe / Edwing Markham -- First snow / C.S. Wood -- Poet in the desert: XLII, LI / C.E.S. Wood -- I am the only one now / William Hartless -- Hate / Ella Higginson -- God's creed/ Ella Higginson -- The chinook wind / Valentine Brown -- Two haiku / Katsuko -- Umatilla county statistics / Bert Huffman -- Zero hour in the factory / Charles Oluf Olsen -- Values / Frances Holmstrom -- The high lead tree / Frances Holmstrom -- The shearers / Frances Holmstrom -- These are the strong / Ethel Romig Fuller -- Fireweed/ Ethel Romig Fuller -- excerpts from The desert wife: III, X, XII / Ada Hastings Hedges -- Neighbor / Ada Hastings Hedges -- Silent juniper / Ada Hastings Hedges -- Monograms / Hazel Hall -- Measurements / Hazel Hall -- Inheritance / Hazel Hall -- How could I be forgetting / Ben Hur Lampman -- America 1918, I / John Reed -- Poem / Yoko Usada -- Traps / Mary Carolyn Davies -- War / Mary Carolyn Davies -- The circuit rider / Mary Carolyn Davies -- Appreciations / Mary Carolyn Davies -- I leave the myths / Joe Hunt -- Head logger / Laurence Pratt -- Chinese laborers / Laurence Pratt -- Herder / Paul Tracy -- Horsemeat / Paul Tracy -- The plumber / Paul Tracy -- Pioneer on aesthetics / Paul Tracy -- Peripetias / Haralambos Kambouris -- Plow woman in time of war / Clara Hoff -- Sunup hangover / James Stevens -- Forest sunrise / James Stevens -- Stone breaker / Verne Bright -- Strange fruit / Verne Bright -- Proud riders / H.L. Davis -- The rain crow / H.L. Davis -- Winter city / Phyllis Morden -- Dinner hour / Phyllis Morden -- Social leader / Phyllis Morden -- Benefit concert / Phyllis Morden -- Pruning vines / Howard McKinley Corning -- From a forest lookout / Courtland Matthews -- At Tule Lake camp / Shizue Iwatsuki -- Returning home / Shizue Iwatsuki -- Forgive me, grandma / Helen Emerson -- Sheep killer / Ernest G. Moll -- Carol with variations, 1936 / Phyllis McGinley -- Oregon winter / Jeanne McGahey -- Logging trestle / Mary Barnard -- Roots / Mary Barnard -- The foragers / Eleanor Matthews -- The raid / William Everson -- Traveling through the dark / William Stafford -- Deer stolen / William Stafford -- Fifteen / William Stafford -- Assurance / William Stafford -- May all earth be clothed in light / George Hitchcock --

Crossing Hawthorne Bridge / Glen Coffield -- The journey / Willis Eberman -- Elk / Willis Eberman -- The others / Willis Eberman -- Cape Foulweather / Vi Gale -- At that, the day ended well / Vi Gale -- Memorial Day 1959 / James B. Hall -- Scenes out of sequence ... / Madeline DeFrees -- Horatio Alger 1834-1899/ Madeline DeFrees -- Eels at the Dalles / Kenneth O. Hanson -- First of all / Kenneth O. Hanson -- Winter salmon / Anthony Ostroff -- January lambing / Beverly Partridge -- At grandmother's / John Haislip -- The visit / John Haislip -- Come near the western edge / Ralph Salisbury -- I try a last myth ... / Ralph Salisbury -- My brother's poem ... / Ralph Salisbury -- Daughter I / Ellen Shannon -- An April fool's day present ... / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The grey Quaker / Ursula K. Le Guin -- To walk in here / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Hay for the horses / Gary Snyder -- Bear / Gary Snyder -- What the moon said / Paula Gunn Allen -- Dear world / Paula Gunn Allen -- A double life / Dori Appel -- Racing snakes / Diane Averill -- Skill of the heart / David Axelrod -- Flying / Alison Baker -- A Choctaw chief ... / Jim Barnes -- Winter fog along the Willamette / Tim Barnes -- Beating the dog / Judith Barrington -- The women fell like beautiful horses / Gloria Bird -- My digging stick / Gloria Bird -- Cinderella / Olga Broumas -- Sweeping the garden / Olga Broumas -- Right in the Kalavala it says / Loois Bunse -- Puller on the Ann / John Bush -- Train whistles in the wind and rain / Henry Carlile -- Where water comes together with other water / Raymond Carver -- Still looking out for number one / Raymond Carver -- In Eastern Oregon / Tina Castanares -- Three deer / Tina Castanares -- The floral apron / Marilyn Chin -- Gruel / Marilyn Chin -- He looks for worms / Linda Christensen -- How to act male ... / Linda Christensen -- Donosaurs of the Hollywood delta / Gerald Costanzo -- Otis cafe / Trom Crawford -- Something learned about fish / Kathleen Culligan -- Cabbages in the garden / Walt Curtis -- Dependence Day / John Daniel -- For John Sinclair / Efrain Diaz-Horna -- Love song for a man ... / Sharon Doubiago -- Garage / Albert Drake -- Stink ant / Barbara Drake -- Shy child/ Barbara Drake -- Praying / Jeremy Driscoll -- Between jobs / Libby A. Durbin -- Finding / Alice Ann Eberman -- Indian education blues / Ed Edmo -- The Oregon Trail / Juan Epple -- The ground war 2.17.91 / William Ferrell -- Old man, the sweat lodge / Phil George -- Boy in a cherry tree / John M. Gogol -- My children are the bright flowers / Cecelia Hagen -- We assume ... / Michael S. Harper -- During the first three minutes of life / Jim Heynen -- The cadence of silk / Garrett Hongo -- Bird love / Christopher Howell -- Like a wandering Jew / Carol Imani -- The Shovel people / Lawson Fusao Inada -- Barracuda / Peter Jensen -- Li's poem ... / David Johnson -- Vaudeville in the garden / David Johnson -- The names of summer: a war memory / Horold L. Johnson -- Those who wrestle ... / Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- A full bucket / Ger Killeen -- The sowing fiddle / Ger Killeen -- With stars in my forehead / Lee Crawley Kirk -- As you pass / Amy Klauke -- Recognizable terrors / Amy Klauke -- Feet / Marilyn Krysl -- Valentines / Barbara La Morticella -- Mona / Jay La Plante -- Enemy and friend / Nela Ladd-Bruni -- Ripe autumn grapes / Wing K. Leong -- The gift / Kerry Paul May -- Lament, with flesh and blood / Sandra McPherson -- Ephesus / Juan Mestas -- Horse chestnut / Gary Miranda -- Love poem / Gary Miranda -- Night shift / Rodger Moody -- Mare / Erik Muller -- Old movie monsters / Michael Niflis -- Thunderstorm / Michael Niflis -- Learning the language from dad / Verlena Orr -- Running and fear / Simon J. Ortiz -- Arriving and leaving here / Simon J. Ortiz -- Three hearts of the octopus / Walteer Pavlich -- No more war, 1945 / Myrna Pena-Reyes -- The moon recounts the birth of the sun / Paulann Petersen -- Moles / Paulann Petersen -- Square dance at the fairgrounds / Amanda Powell -- In Oregon / John Quinn -- The trough at Rockwall Spring/ John Quinn -- The kit / Jarold Ramsey -- Free will and the river / Judith Root -- Girl near a waterfall / William Pitt Root -- The penultimate laborl / 1 William Pitt Root -- Fathers and infants / Lex Runciman -- The world / Vern Rutsala -- Lela and others / Vern Rutsala -- Salem: two windows / Maxine Scates -- Perfume / Maxine Scates -- Shallows / Sandra Scofield -- Halloween of the sudden hand / Peter Sears -- The lady who ... / Peter Sears -- Tejon Pass / Karyl Severson -- You asked for it / Floyd Skloot -- Underpants / Susan Spady -- Pearle's poem / Primus St. John -- A sermon on Eve / Kim Stafford -- The rocking chair / Kim Stafford -- Slab on grade / Clem Starck -- Me and Maloney / Clem Starck -- A pigeon poem / Lisa M. Steinman -- El Conjuncto fabuloso / Kaz Sussman -- Field burning / William Sweet -- Catching the limit / Mark Thalman -- Strategies to survive ... / Gail Tremblay -- Forgive us / George Venn -- Conjuring a Basque ghost / George Venn -- The jewel / D.M. Wallace -- Clean dirt / Doyle Wesley Walls -- Homework / Doyle Wesley Walls -- Mushroom picking, I talk with a bear / Ingrid Wendt -- For San Dwayne Francisco ... / Miles Wilson -- Breast poem / John Witte -- Blue school / John Witte -- Rain / Vincent Wixon -- A warrior and the glass prisoners / Elizabeth Woody -- The school photographer / Victoria Wyttenberg --