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We've Got a Job To Do

1992 by Perry Duis and Scott LaFrance, Chicagoans and World War II

977.3 D87 1992 Library
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871

1969 by Lewis Osbourne, Three Illustrated Accounts from Harper's Weekly

977.31 G74 1969 Library
The Social Order of a Frontier Community

1978 by Don Harrison Doyle, Jacksonville, Illinois, 1825-70, Analyzes the process of building a new community in the nineteenth-century American…

977.346 D69 1978 Library
The Settling of Highland

1859 by Solomon Koepfli (Kopflig), A Translation by Jennie Latzer Kaeser, Highland, Illinois

977.386 K66 1970 Library
Women's Roots in Southern Oregon and Northern California

1993 by Carol Barrett, Southern Oregon Historical Society, As It Was scripts, Jefferson Public Radio

978 B3 Library
Echoes from the Rocky Mountains

1888 by John W. Clampitt, Counselor at Law, Reminiscences and Thrilling Incidents of the romantic and Golden Age of the Great West. with a Graphic…

978 C53 1889 Library
The Terrible Trail: the Meek Cutoff, 1845

By Keith Clarke and Lowell Tiller, 1966, with photographs and maps, Stephen H. L. Meek

978 C6 Library
Harkness, McDonaugh

GPCourier 4-2-1960, Harkness Inn, Sunny Valley, Fort Leland, General Wood, James Twogood, Barney Simpson, Mr. Bates, Martha Leland Crowley, Grave…

Wolf Creek, OR Vertical File Subjects
Indians Raid First Cattle Drive

GPCourier 4-2-1960, Foots Creek, Ewing Young, P. L. Edwards, Klamath Indians, Turner Party, 

Indians of North America, Klamath Vertical File Subjects
Arthur Blodgett

GPCourier 4-2-1960, Williams Dairy, Axel Blodgett, 
Clem Blodgett, Eunice Blodgett, Avis Moore, Charlette Gotcher

Williams, OR Vertical File Subjects
Elsie Applegate

GPCourier 4-2-1960, Evelyn Applegate, Brookside Ranch, Masganet Grubb, Jesse Applegate, Lindsay Applegate, Charles Applegate, Dr. McLoughlin,…

Applegate 1900s Vertical File Biographies
Tom Dorman

GPDailyCourier 5-11-2025, Grants Pass, Harold and Ella Dorman, Denny Holt, Beacon Hill, Byrd's Market, Chet's Feed and Seed, Schmidt Grocery,…

Grants Pass, OR Vertical File Subjects
Rae's Arctic Correspondence 1844-55

The Hudson's Bay Record Society.  John Rae's Correspondence with the Hudson's Bay Co. on Arctic Exploration 1844-1855.  Contents: Maps…

971 H83 1938 Library
Cumberland and Hudson House Journals 1775-1782, Series 2

The Hudson's Bay Record Society.  (1779-1782)

971 H83 1938 Library
Cumberland and Hudson House Journals 1775-1782

The Hudson's Bay Record Society XlV.  Cumberland and Hudson House Journals (first series, 1775-79). 

971 H83 1938 Library
Ogden's Snake Country Journals 1824-26

The Hudson's Bay Record Society Xlll.  Peter Skene Ogden"s Snake Country Journals 1824-25 and 1825-26.  Contents: Peter Skene Ogden's…

971 H83 1938 Library
Isham's Observations and Notes 1743-49

The Hudson's Bay Record society Xll.  Notes and observations on a book entitled "A Voyage to Hudson's Bay in the Dobbs Galley, 1749.  …

971 H83 1938 Library
Copy- Book of Letters Outward &c

The Hudson's Bay Record Society Xl.  Letters Outward 1679-1694.  Begins 29th May, 1680, ends 5th July, 1687.

971 H83 1938 Library
Land of the Umpqua, A History of Douglas County, Oregon (2 copies)

Stephen Dow Beckham, 1986

Natural environment, settlers, fur trade, Indians, towns, economic development, culture, illustrations and maps

979.529 B39 1986 Library
Wagon Trains Lead to Roses in December

Jen Carlson, 1959

Pioneer history of Drain, Oregon 1859-1959, photographs

979.529 C37 1959 Library
Cow Creek Valley Memories, The Early Settlers of Riddle, Oregon

John M. Cornutt, 1971

Biography of author and history of early settlers in Riddle, Oregon

979.529 C67 1971 Library
Memories of Long Ago

Shirley Clayton, 1956

Stories by the author living in Dillard, Oregon

979.529 C53 1956 Library
Treasures From the Trapper 1965-1994

Douglas County Historical Society, 1995

Stories from the The Umpqua Trapper, a quarterly publication of the Douglas County Historical…

979.529 D68 1995 Library
Aircraft Warning Systems, 1942-1943

Laura E. Hartley, 1943

Personal diary of author written on the night watch of 1943, photographs

979.52 H3 Library
Overstory: Zero, Real Life in the Timber Country of Oregon

Robert Leo Heilman, 1995

Detailed description and terminology of the timber industry, Umpqua forest

979.529 H36 1995 Library
Historic Douglas County, Oregon 1982

Douglas County Historical Society, 1982

Natural surroundings, history, industry, agriculture, organizations, families and individuals,…

979.529 H58 1982 Library
A Place Called Douglas County

Douglas County Board of Commissioners, 2003

Natural setting, people, economy, community resources

979.529 J5 Library
Umpqua Valley, Oregon and Its Pioneers

Harold Avery Minter, 1967

Umpqua River early history, towns and settlement, government, transportation, communities, churches, pioneers

979.529 M55 1967 Library
The History of the Scott and Bryson Families

by John Scott Bryson. 1901 inside inscription in pencil "Presented to Alice Ethelyn Martin by Grandma Isabelle Rose Bryson More?  Aug 18,…

920 B9 1901 Library
Nomination Papers, Oakland Historical District, Oregon

1978

Topography, economic development, history, inventory of places with descriptions and photographs

979.529 O13 1978 Library