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Books by Gregory Nokes
  | | The Troubled Life of Peter Burnett(1st Edition) Oregon Pioneer and First Governor of California by R. Gregory Nokes Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2018 by Oregon State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87071-932-5, ISBN: 0-87071-932-7 "Few people in the nineteenth-century American West could boast the achievements of Peter Burnett. He helped organize the first major wagon train to the Oregon Country. He served on Oregon’s first elected government and was Oregon’s first supreme court judge. He opened a wagon road from Oregon to California. He worked with the young John Sutter to develop the new city of Sacramento. Within a year of arriving in California, voters overwhe ..." |
 | | Breaking Chains(1st Edition) Slavery on Trial in the Oregon Territory by R. Gregory Nokes Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2013 by Oregon State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87071-712-3, ISBN: 0-87071-712-X "When they were brought to Oregon in 1844, Missouri slaves Robin and Polly Holmes and their children were promised freedom in exchange for helping develop their owner’s Willamette Valley farm. However, Nathaniel Ford, an influential settler and legislator, kept them in bondage until 1850, even then refusing to free their children. Holmes took his former master to court and, in the face of enormous odds, won the case in 1853.In Brea ..." |
 | | Massacred for Gold(1st Edition) The Chinese in Hells Canyon by R. Gregory Nokes Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2009 by Oregon State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87071-570-9, ISBN: 0-87071-570-4 "In 1887, more than thirty Chinese gold miners were massacred on the Oregon side of Hells Canyon, the deepest canyon in North America. Massacred for Gold, the first authoritative account of the unsolved crime, unearths the evidence that points to an improbable gang of rustlers and schoolboys, one only fifteen, as the killers. The crime was discovered weeks after it happened, but no charges were brought for nearly a year, when gang membe ..." |
 | | Grit and Ink(1st Edition) An Oregon Family's Adventures in Newspapering, 1908-2018 by William F. Willingham, Stephen A. Forrester, R. Gregory Nokes Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2018 by Oregon State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87071-955-4, ISBN: 0-87071-955-6 "Beneath the 24/7 national news cycle and argument over “fake news,” there is a layer of journalism that communities absolutely depend upon. Grit and Ink offers a rare look inside the financial struggles and family dynamic that has kept a Pacific Northwest publishing group alive for more than a century. The newspapers of the Aldrich-Forrester-Bedford-Brown family depict the histories of towns like Pendleton, Astoria, John Day, Enterprise ..." |
 | | Slavery's Descendants Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation by Jill Strauss, Dionne Ford, Joseph Mcgill, Shannon Lanier, Antoinette Broussard, Catherine Sasanov, Leslie Stainton, Eileen Jackson, Karen Branan, Stephanie Harp, Sharon Morgan, Bill Sizemore, Sara Jenkins, Debian Marty, Tammarrah Lee, Elissa Pearmain, Sarah Kohrs, Phoebe Kilby, Fabrice Guerrier, A.B. Westrick, Grant Hayter-Menzies, R. Gregory Nokes, Rodney G. Williams, Karen Stewart-Ross, David Terrett Beumée, Betty Kilby-Baldwin, Thomas Norman Dewolf, Tom Dewolf, Rutgers University Press Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2019 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-978800-76-2, ISBN: 1-978800-76-2 "Race remains a potent and divisive force in our society. Whether it is the shooting of minority people by the police, the mass incarceration of people of color, or the recent KKK rallies that have been in the news, it is clear that the scars from the United States’ histories of slavery and racial discrimination run too deep to simply be ignored. But what are the most productive ways to deal with the toxic and torturous legacies of Ameri ..." |
 | | Eminent Oregonians Three Who Matter by Jane Kirkpatrick; Steve Forrester; R. Gregory Nokes Softcover, Published 2021 by Primedia Elaunch Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-63901-543-6, ISBN: 1-63901-543-4 |