0

Google Preview Google Preview

The Troubled Life of Peter Burnett

Oregon Pioneer and First Governor of California

Publication Date:  
Apr 2018

9780870719325

Click here for information on taxes/customs duties

Peter Burnett, Oregon pioneer and governor of California, had one of the most impressive resumes of any early leaders in the American West, yet failed at most of his pursuits. A former slaveholder, he could never seem to get beyond his single-minded goal of banning black people and other minorities from the West.

Peter Burnett, Oregon pioneer and governor of California, had one of the most impressive resumes of any early leaders in the American West, yet failed at most of his pursuits.  A former slaveholder, he could never seem to get beyond his single-minded goal of banning black people and other minorities from the West.

R. Gregory Nokes is the author Breaking Chains: Slavery on Trial in the Oregon Territory and  Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon, an Oregonian Pacific Northwest “Top 10” book. He travelled the world as a reporter and editor for the Associated Press and The Oregonian. He is a graduate of Willamette University and attended Harvard University as a Nieman Fellow. He and his wife, Candise, live in West Linn, Oregon.
Pages288
Date Published30 Apr 2018
PublisherOregon State University Press
LanguageEnglish
Dimensions226 x 152 x 20

Related products

link to detail page

The Glorification of Plunder

Recently viewed

link to detail page

Rival Claims
link to detail page

Vascular Biology of the Placenta