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Our Valley Live and Unscripted: Our Take on What Reality Shows Would Look Like if They Were Filmed in the Rogue Valley (two copies)

Southern Oregon Media Group, April 19 2015, section editor David Smigelski, photo editor Bob Pennell, copy editor Cathy Noah, real people…

979.527 M3 2015 Library
Twitchell, Cleve

RVTimes 4-1-2026 obituary, Mail Tribune editor, columnist and food critic for more than 30 years.

TW Vertical File Biographies
Our Valley Outdoors in Our Valley: Things to Do and Places to See Outdoors in Southern Oregon

Southern Oregon Media Group, April 20 2014, section editor David Smigelski, photo editor Bob Pennell, copy editor Cathy Noah, entertainment…

979.527 M3 2014 Library
Our Valley Our Legacy: People and Projects that Have Changed the Rogue Valley Forever

Medford Mail Tribune, Our Valley, April 12 2013, section editor Cathy Noah, photo editor Bob Pennell, section design Robert Galvin, Rogue…

979.527 M3 2013 Library
Davis, Sharie Kate

rv-times.com 3-16-2026 obituary, Alliance of Therapy Dogs licensed Spiritual Practitioner with the Center for Spiritual Living

Davis Vertical File Biographies
Our Valley Our Bucket List: If the End of the World Really is Coming, Here are Some Things You Must Get Done First (three copies)

Medford Mail Tribune, Our Valley, April 15 2012, section editor Cathy Noah, photo editor Bob Pennell, section design Robert Galvin, "to-do" lists…

979.527 M3 2012 Library
Garcia, Davd Robert

r-v times.con 3-11-2026 obituary, Died 2-23-2026 of ALS most likely linked to Agent Orange exposure during service in Vietnam, co-founder of…

GA Vertical File Biographies
Our Valley Southern Oregon's Biggest, Best, Longest, Tallest, Oldest, First, Famous & More: Our Extremes (two copies)

Medford Mail Tribune, Our Valley, April 17 2011, section editor Cathy Noah, photo editor Bob Pennell, section design Robert Galvin,

979.527 M3 2011 Library
Beagle, Mike

Ashland.news 3-25-2026 obituary, Alumni relations director at Southern Oregon University, Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers

Beagle Vertical File Biographies
Our Valley Inventions and Innovations: A Legacy of Blue Sky Ideas from Southern Oregon Thinkers and Tinkerers

Medford Mail Tribune, Our Valley, April 18 2010, section editor Cathy Noah, photo editor Bob Pennell, section design Robert Galvin,…

979.527 M3 2010 Library
Our Virtual Valley: How the Internet Has Changed the Way We Live, Work and Play

Medford Mail Tribune, Our Valley, April 19, 2009, section editor Cathy Noah, photo editor Bob Pennell, section design Robert Galvin,

979.527 M3 2009 Library
Haptonstall, Patricia Louise Rogers

Ashland.news 4-1-2026 obituary, served on the White Point lookout near Prospect, owned and ran the Haptonstall Taxidermy in Ashland and Talent

HA Vertical File Biographies
Lang, Richard Corry

Ashland.news 4-1-2026 obituaty, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA and led ecumenical campus ministry for…

LA Vertical File Biographies
Sundberg, Leonard Evar

Ashland.news 4-1-2026 obituary, worked in construction building the AmerTitSUle building in Medford, a highway bridge that required diverting the…

SU Vertical File Biographies
Sager, William Joseph, M.D.

Ashland.news 4-11-2026 obituary, Presbyterian missionary in the Congo and Deacon in Ashland, Oregon.Internal medicine doctor in Ashland for 30…

SA Vertical File Biographies
Thorpe, Gloria Delores

Ashland.news 4-11-2026 obituary, owned and operated the Ashland Motel for over two decades, Rotary Club, P.E.O.

TH Vertical File Biographies
Art Chipman collection: #7

BOX #7
Folder 96. Gun books, correspondence
Folder 97. Banking letters, Crater Bank mobile
Folder 98. Reid Davis
Folder 99.…

M22 D 8 Mezzanine List
Art Chipman collection: #6

BOX #6
Folder 70. "The Case for Copying"
Folder 71. "Oregon's Oldest Family"
Folder 72. "There Must B an Alternative"
Folder 73. "The…

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Art Chipman collection: #5

Folder 53. Article suggestions #2
Folder 54. "Last Days of David Douglas" and "Monument to a Botanical Genius"
Folder 55. Carl Purdy -…

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Art Chipman collection: #4

Box #4
Folder 37. Pertaining to Jacksonville
Folder 38. brochure: Lava Beds national monument 1967, bread recipes, True West Adventures (…

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With Her Own Wings

With Her Own Wings                       edited by Helen Krebs Smith

Compiled by The…

979.5 W58 1948 Library
The Medford Mail Tribune The Path of the Pioneers: Oregon Trail and Our Valley

MMT, March 18, 1993, Special edition commemorating the sesquicentennial of the Oregon Trail, Sections include The Wester Eden, Facing the Unknown…

979.527 M3 1993 Library
The Medford Mail Tribune Chronicle: Tales From Our Valley's Past

MMT, Special Edition, Thursday, March 23, 1989, in collaboration with the SOHS, a written and visual chronicle of eve3nts, people, etc. that…

979.527 M3 1989 Library
The Medford Mail Tribune Our Valley Editions: Mountain, Shore, Valley

MMT Special Edition, coordinated by Steve Myers, Thursday, February 26, 1987, articles about people and places that make the valley unique

979.527 M3 1987 Library
Medford Mail Tribune Medford's 1st Century

MMT, Thursday, June 6, 1985, articles celebrating Medford's first 100 years

979.527 M3 1985 Library
Medford Mail Tribune Page One 1906-1981

Remembering the People and Events that Shaped Seventy-Five Years of Southern Oregon History,1974, 1981 Sections A-D

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The Great Northwest

The Great Northwest    A History

by Oscar Osburn Winther

Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged        …

979.5 W55 1950 Library
Applegater: Applegate Valley Community Newsmagazine

Summer 2011 and Winter 2025, local news and events serving Jackson and Josephine counties

979.527 M Applegate Library
Tragedy at Southern Oregon Tunnel 13: DeAutremonts Hold Up the Southern Pacific, two copies

Scott Mangold, 2013, true crime, forensics, transportation, railroads, Siskiyou Mountains, manhunt, illustrated with sketch maps and photographs…

979.527 M2 Library
The Old Oregon Country

The Old Oregon Country

A History of Frontier Trade, Transportation, and Travel   by Oscar Osburn Winther, Dept of History, Indiana…

979.5 W55 1969 Library