Stewart Holbrook
Stewart Hall Holbrook (1893 - 1964) was a lumberjack, writer, and popular historian. His writings focused on what he called the "Far Corner": Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. A self-proclaimed "low-brow" historian, his topics included Ethan Allen, the railroads, the timber industry, the Wobblies, and eccentrics of the Pacific Northwest.
He wrote for the Oregonian for over thirty years, and authored dozens of books:
- Holy Old Mackinaw: A Natural History of the American Lumberjack (1938) ISBN 1112559892
- Let Them Live (1938)
- Iron Brew: A Century of American Ore and Steel (1939)
- Ethan Allen (1940) ISBN 1121693768
- Tall Timber (1941)
- Murder Out Yonder: An Informal Study of Certain Classic Crimes in Back-Country America (1941)
- None More Courageous: American War Heroes of Today (1942) ISBN 1122089260
- A Narrative of Schafer Bros. Logging Company's Half Century in the Timber (1945)
- Burning an Empire: The Study of American Forest Fires (1945)
- Green Commonwealth: A Narrative of the Past and a Look at the Future of One Forest Products Community (1945) ISBN 1122250436, ISBN 1127027220
- Promised Land: A Collection of Northwest Writing (1945)
- Lost Men of American History (1946) ISBN 129910049X, ISBN 1117362744 ISBN 111751286X
- The Story of American Railroads (1947) ISBN 1117047504 ISBN 1122153783
- Little Annie Oakley & Other Rugged People (1948) ISBN 1125587571
- (with Henry Sheldon) Northwest Corner: Oregon and Washington: the Last Frontier (1948) ISBN 1199186511
- America's Ethan Allen (1949) ISBN 1112121684
- Yankee Exodus: an Account of Migration (1950) ISBN 1125309903
- The Portland Story (1951)
- Far Corner: A Personal View of the Pacific Northwest (1952) ISBN 1199108243
- Saga of the Saw Files (1952)
- (with Ernest Richardson) Wild Bill Hickok Tames the West (1952)
- Age of the Moguls (1953) ISBN 1125258918
- (with Milton Rugoff) Down on the Farm, A Picture History of Country Life in America in the Good Old Days (1954) ISBN 112218476X
- James J. Hill: A Great Life in Brief (1955)
- Machines of Plenty: Pioneering in American Agriculture (1955) ISBN 1117179001 ISBN 1199055867
- Davy Crockett (1955)
- Wyatt Earp: U.S. Marshall (1956)
- Columbia (1956) ISBN 1117179923
- The Rocky Mountain Revolution (1956) ISBN 1117114643 ISBN 1122052294
- Dreamers of the American Dream (1957) ISBN 1112136851
- (with Ernest Richardson) Swamp Fox of the Revolution (1957) ISBN 1299867189
- Mr. Otis (1958) ISBN 1117379833 ISBN 1199111007
- The Golden Age of Quackery (1959)
- The Golden Age of Railroads (1960)
- Yankee Logger: A Recollection of Woodsmen, Cooks and River Drivers (1961)
- The Old Post Road: The Story of the Boston Post Road (1962)
- (with Nard Jones and Roderick Haig-Brown) The Pacific Northwest (1963) ISBN 1199963062 ISBN 1117122492
- The Wonderful West (1963)
- The Columbia River (1965)
He also produced a number of paintings under the pseudonym of "Mr. Otis."
