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This book is a memoir of the life and travels of Alvin Brown Roberts on the Oregon Trail in 1853. Historical insights into his life in early territorial days of Portland, Oregon, Shoalwater (Willapa Bay) and Walla Walla, Washington. He describes the Battle of Walla Walla, his involvement in the Oregon Mounted Volunteers and the after effects on the surrounding country. Included are some of his original sketches of the area and photos of tombst...

A key American Pictorialist and a crucial innovator in abstract photography, Alvin Langdon Coburn is a fascinating but often neglected figure in the history of American modernism. As early as 1909, Coburn was making futuristic depictions of New York and Pittsburgh, anticipating modernist architectural photography's classic "bird's-eye" view. In 1912, in New York, working with the Cubist artist-poet Max Weber, he developed this idiom a step fur...

The author of three books of short stories of entertaining events during the last half of the 20th century, Alvin Roberts presents a collection of ten stories highlighting the philosophical dilemma of predestined time of death versus the doctrine of free will. The central characters in these stories have encountered near fatal circumstances and lived to tell about them. The reader will be interested in how they interpret their good fortunes in...

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