OHQ vol. 115, no. 3 ing to Lars Nordstrom in the introduction to his book Swedish Roots, Oregon Lives: An Oral History Project,an estimated 20 percent of that country’spopulation.Hewantedtounderstand the “push” or “pull” forces that led them to break away from their familiar world to make new lives in America and elsewhere. The best way to learn about those forces was to interview people who had undergone the experience. Twelve individuals and three couples were interviewed, and their stories are recounted in this book. They describe the difficulties they encountered and how they finally adapted or failed to adapt to their new environment. The interviews allow readers to follow along on the journey with each emigrant as he or she struggles to survive. The country they left was not the Sweden of today, with cradle-to-grave security. Nils Lindstrom, one of the twelve emigrants whose story is told in this book, admitted:“In Sweden we lived in great poverty near the northern city of Lulea”(p.137).It is no wonder that for some emigrants,the memories were so crushing that they never wanted to go back. Others were able to bridge both worlds: “When I go to Sweden I go‘home,’ and I come ‘home’ when I return to Oregon” (p. 152). Ingeborg Dean and Ross Fogelquist, who did most of the interviews and transcriptions, developed relationships with the people they interviewed that allowed them to speak openly about their painful moments and discouragement as well as their successes and joys. Each interview was then woven into a coherent narrative by Lars Nordstrom. Of all the stories, the most touching is that of Emma Nordgren, who said that in Sweden, her parents were the “poorest of the poor, and if that was the class you were born into, you stayed there” (p. 16). Nordgren’s mother was deeply religious, “but she felt that one had to have Sunday clothes and look just right in order to go to church,and so she only went occasionally ” (p. 18). Nordgren’s father left for America first to find work. It took him seven years to make enough money to send for his wife and daughter.Nordgren noted:“In spite of our hard life here, my father never wished he had stayed in Sweden” (p. 21). Lindstrom’s father worked for a timber company in Bridal Veil, a company-owned town in Multnomah County. His paycheck in January 1931 showed he received a total of twenty-five cents in pay for ninety-three and a half hours work after everything he owed the company had been removed.ThisAmerica was not thepromised land theyhad dreamed about. This is a book both for general readers who love a good story (eighteen of them) and for those who want to understand the sacrifices emigrant families made so their children could achieve the financial success, security, and respect denied to them in Sweden’s old, rigid class society. The book ought to be adapted for inclusion in programs at schools to teach children about our country’s immigrant experience . Other books by Nordstrom are Ten New Lives (2005) and Swedish Oregon (2008), published by Swedish Roots in Oregon Press, Portland, Oregon. Fortunately for the public, those memories have been captured in print before they disappeared forever. Liisa Penner Clatsop County Historical Society Full Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest by Sandi Doughton Sasquatch Books, Seattle, Washington, 2013. Illustrations, maps, index. 256 pages. $23.95 cloth Full Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest offers a comprehensive history of scientific development related to Reviews earthquake and tsunami threats in the Pacific Northwest. Doughton chronicles the experiences of people who have devoted time to the advancement of earthquake understanding. The book encompasses two main themes: scientific discoveries and their implementations. The book begins by tracing the history of how scientists discovered the region’s last mega earthquake (M9) and induced tsunamis,which occurred on January 26, 1700, and possibly originated in the Cascadia subduction zone. About thirty years ago, scientists studying the safety of nuclear power plants suspected its existence.Much like detective work,the...