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Guest author Gregory Nokes |
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R. Gregory Nokes’ book Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon is the first authoritative account of the little-known massacre of as many as thirty-four Chinese gold miners in Oregon’s Hells Canyon in 1887. It is published by Oregon State University Press. It has been a regional best-seller and is now in its second printing.. Nokes has traveled widely as a reporter and editor. He worked for The Associated Press in Salt Lake City; New York City; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Buenos Aires, and Washington, D.C. He joined The Oregonian in 1986, from which he retired in 2003. Nokes’ assignments for The AP included Chief State Department Correspondent during which he covered trips abroad by Presidents Ford, Carter and Reagan. In Puerto Rico, he served as Chief of Caribbean Services, responsible for AP’s Caribbean news and business operations. His news assignments have taken him to more than fifty countries, including three trips to China. A native of Oregon, Nokes attended Willamette University in Oregon, graduating in 1959. He was awarded a Nieman Fellowship to Harvard University in 1971-1972. He was a contributing author to The Media and Foreign Policy, published by St. Martin’s Press in 1990.
Nokes was one of several interested parties who successfully petitioned the Oregon Geographic Names Board in 2005 to name the site of the massacre “Chinese Massacre Cove,’’ which was ratified by the United States Board on Geographic Names. He has lectured widely both on the massacre and on the experience of Chinese laborers in the interior of the Pacific Northwest. Nokes and his wife, Candise, reside in West Linn, Oregon. Find out more at www.gregnokes.com |
Nokes
was interviewed on-camera about the Chinese massacre for the Bill Moyers’
three-part PBS series, Becoming American: The Chinese Experience, which
aired in 2003. He also wrote an article about the massacre that appeared
in the Fall 2006 issue of the Oregon Historical Quarterly entitled “A
Most Daring Outrage, Murders at Chinese Massacre Cove, 1887.’’ The
article won him an honorable mention for the 2007 Joel Palmer Award from
the Oregon Historical Society.