The SOHS Library is OPEN to the public at 106 N. Central Avenue in Medford, with FREE access to the SOHS Archives, from 12:00 - 4:00 pm, Tuesday through Saturday. Appointments are not necessary. Please contact library@sohs.org, or call 541-622-2025 ex 200 to ask questions or request research.
Mega Index
| Title | Body | Location | Source Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| From Wilderness to Empire: A History of California | Robert Glass Cleland, Glen Dumke (ed.), 1959, early exploration, Spanish Conquistadores, missions, statehood, recent history, illustrated with… |
979.4 C54 | Library | |
| Christmas in the Gold Fields, 1949 | Joseph J. McCloskey & Hermann J. Sharmann, 1959, personal narratives, folk tales, pioneer history, California, illustrated with sketches |
979.4 C47 | Library | |
| Life in California Before the Gold Discovery | John Bidwell, 1966, Sacramento Valley, early pioneers, personal narrative, John C. Fremont, John A. Sutter, illustrated with sketches |
979.4 B53 | Library | |
| The Journal of a Trip Around the Horn as Written and Printed on the Ship Henry Lee | George G. Webster and Linville J. Hall, 1970 (1849), exploration, sea voyage, California history, merchants, navigation, illustrated with sketches… |
979.404 | Library | |
| Bad Company: The Story of California's Legendary and Actual Stage-Robbers, Bandits, Highwaymen and Outlaws from the Fifties to the Eighties | Joseph Henry Jackson, 1977, Joaquin Murieta, Dick Fellows, Tom Bell, Rattlesnake Dick, Black Bart, Dick Fellows, Tiburcio Vasquez, California Gold… |
979.404 | Library | |
| Modoc: The Tribe That Wouldn't Die | Cheewa James, 2008, Modoc War, Captain Jack, northern California, southern Oregon, Lava Beds National Monument, illustrated with photographs |
979.40 J | Library | |
| The Anti-Chinese Movement in California | Elmer Clarence Sandmeyer, 1991, racism, organized labor, politics, Chinese Exclusion Act, Asian Americans |
979.4 S21 | Library | |
| Across the Plains in the Donner Party | Virginia Reed Murphy, 1964, travel, pioneers, California, despair, illustrated with sketches |
979.4 | Library | |
| The Golden State and Its Resources | John J. Powell, 1874, California geography, economics, culture |
979.4 P7 | Library | |
| The Jews in the California Gold Rush | Robert E. Levinson, 1978, history 1849-1880, Jewish culture, gold mining, illustrated |
979.4 L49 | Library | |
| Lemuria: The Lost Continent of the Pacific | Wishar S. Cerve, 1931, folklore, Mt. Shasta, Rosicrucian, illustrated with sketches |
979.42 C3 | Library | |
| At the Banks of the Eel: An Early History of Grizzly Bluff, Waddington, Price Creek, and Howe Creek | Denis P. Edeline, 1978, history, folklore, Humboldt County California, illustrated with photographs and sketch maps |
979.412 E34 | Library | |
| The History of Del Norte County, California | Esther Ruth Smith, 1953, pioneers, personal narratives, gold mining, Crescent City, illustrated with photographs, a amp, and paintings |
979.411 S65 | Library | |
| The Raging Sea: The Powerful Account of the Worst Tsunami in U.S. History | Dennis M. Powers, 2005, Crescent City, Del Norte County California, 1964 tsunami, natural disaster, illustrated with photographs |
979.411 P6 | Library | |
| In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908-09 | Mary Ellicott Arnold and Mabel Reed, 1980, personal narratives, Karok Indians, Klamath River, Salmon River, gold rush, illustrated with… |
979.421 A75 | Library | |
| Mt. Shasta: History, Legends, and Lore | Michael Zanger, 1992, early and recent history, folklore, illustrated with sketches and photographs |
979.42 Z29 | Library | |
| Reminiscences of a Pioneer | Colonel William Thompson, 1912, Captain Jack Indian War, personal history, illustrated with photographs |
979.42 T37 | Library | |
| Saddle Bags in Siskiyou | J. Roy Jones, 1953, Siskiyou Co., California, Lotta Crabtree, Bret Harte, Joaquin Miller, gold rush, illustrated with a map and photograph |
979.42 J71 | Library | |
| Old Oregon Trail: Roadway of American Home Builders | Walter Meacham, 1948, illustrations by Irvin Shope, Jesse Applegate, travel, early pioneers, travel |
979.5 M41 | Library | |
| Acquisition of Oregon and the Long Suppressed Evidence About Marcus Whitman, vol. 2 | William I. Marshall, 1911, early history, politics, civics |
979.5 M37 v. 2 | Library | |
| Acquisition of Oregon and the Long Suppressed Evidence About Marcus Whitman, vol. 1 | William I. Marshall, 1911, early history, politics, civics |
979.5 M37 v. 1 | Library | |
| The Southern Route to Western Oregon 1846 | W. A. Moxley, n.d., Oregon Trail, wagon trains, Jesse Applegate, Lindsey Applegate, Levi Scott, John Scott, incomplete photocopy |
979.5 MOX | Library | |
| Oregon 1859: A Snapshot in Time | Janice Marschner, 2008, "A time-travelers guide to the first year of statehood", ordered alphabetically by county, illustrated with photographs… |
979.5 M3 | Library | |
| A Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940 | Elizabeth McLagan, 1980, African Americans, ordered chronologically, pioneer history, illustrated with photographs, enslaved persons |
979.5 M14 | Library | |
| Western Oregon: Portrait of the Land and Its People, No. 2 | Marine McPhee, 1987, history, geography, Klamath Mountains, Western Cascades |
979.5 M17 | Library | |
| History vs. The Whitman Saved Oregon Story | William L. Marshall, 1904, Oregon Territory acquisition, essays, early history |
979.5 M37 | Library | |
| Letters from Oregon Boys in France | Maude E. Wilmot, 1919, illustrations by George Phillips, first edition 1917-1918, World War I, American Red Cross, soldiers, personal letters |
979.5 Letters | Library | |
| Little Known Tales from Oregon History: A Collection of 28 Stories from Cascades East Magazine, vol. 1 | Geoff Hill (ed.),1988, Central Oregon, pioneer history, George W. Linn, illustrated with photographs |
975.5 | Library | |
| Upper Rogue River Trail | Rogue River national Forest guide to hiking and camping |
917.9527 U67 | Library | |
| Early Jackson County Toll Roads, Tunnels, Ferries and Bridges | prepared by Mark Lawrence |
917.9527 Early Jackson County | Library |