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Pioneer Days in Canyonville and the South Umpqua Valley

South Umpqua Historical Society, 1970

John and Malinda Yokum Family, industry, Fernvale, circuit rider. photographs

979.529 P55 1968 Library
Caton Family Records, 1884-1908

Our Complete Family Record and Biographical Compendium. 1882 Milo James Caton, Harry Freeman Caton, Daniel Caton all born in Jacksonville, Oregon…

920 C38 1908 Library
Pioneer Days in South Umpqua Valley

South Umpqua Historical Society, 1973

Days Creek Methodist Church, Napoleon Poole Family, settlement of Days Creek, illustrations

979.529 P55 1968 Library
The Rev. John M. Camron and Descendants 1790-1962

complied by Alice Purvine Murphy. This book does not appear to be locally relevant 

920 Camron 1962 Library
Autobiography of Wm M Colvig, an Oregon Pioneer of 1851, Prepared at the Request of George F. Himes, Secretary of the Oregon Pioneer Association

Prepared at the Request of George H Himes, Secretary of the Oregon Pioneer Association

920 C64 1928 Library
Life in Douglas County, Oregon, The Western Experience

Fred Reenstjerna and Jena Mitchell, 1993

Natural resources and mining, farming, transportation, towns, social and family life, work, schools…

979.529 R28 1993 Library
Lane County, An Illustrated History of the Emerald Empire

Dorothy Velasco, 1985

Native people, settlement, cities, economic development, education, communities

979.531 V43 1985 Library
Peter Britt: Pioneer Photgrapher of the Siskiyous

by Alan Clark Miller.  Trinity College thesis 1972  (two copies)

920 B73 1972 Library
Environment and Experience, Settlement Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oregon

Peter G. Boag, 1992

Oregon's Calapooia Valley, natural history, native people, settlers, community life

979.535 B66 1992 Library
An Independent Scholar In Twentieth Century America

The Autobiography of Vaughn Davis Bornet. 1995. "The an Emory, Georgia and Stanford trained historian. ... he retired when professor of history…

920 B73 1995 Library
Pioneer Landmarks of Washington County, Oregon

Clyde Keller, 1978

Illustrations of landmarks

979.543 K44 1978 Library
This Time and Place

by Martin F. Bridges. 1979 George Washington Patton married Elizabeth Hudson - this book follows their family story from Indiana to Missouri to…

920 B75 1979 Library
'Twas Many Years Since, 100 Years in the Waverley Area 1847-1947

Elizabeth F. Dimon, 1981

Area bordering the east bank of the Willamette River north of Milwaukie, Oregon

Settlement, families,…

979.549 D54 1981 Library
A Time for Remembering

by Louise Du Bois Burt b in 1920 to Eva Storey and Flloyd M. DuBois in Wisconsin. Includes genealogical and family history about the following…

920 B82 Library
Timberline Lodge

Friends of Timberline, Edited by Rachael Griffin and Sarah Munro, 1978

History and architecture, construction, arts and furnishings,…

979.549 T54 1978 Library
Letters between George Brown and Lizzie Anderson (Brown, McCall)

1857-1864 letters from George H. Brown and at least one letter from J. A. Wilber. later letters are from the time that George went with his…

920 B87 1857 Library
East of the Cascades

Phil F. Brogan, edited by L. K. Phillips, 1964

Prehistoric period, Indians, settlers, cattle and sheep production, development of towns,…

979.55 B75 1965 Library
History of Hood River County, Oregon 1852-1982

Published by the Hood River County Historical Society, 1982

The family histories and stories written by family members and friends of the…

979.561 H67 1982 Library
The Lady of the House

An autobiography of Sally Stanford. 1966 Signed by the author in 1971 America's Number One Madam who operated out of a house of pleasure 1144 Pine…

920 B88 1966 Library
An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, with a brief outline of the early history of the State of Oregon

Western Historical Publishing Company, 1902

Water, land, Astor Expedition, missions, immigration, Indian Wars, settlement, government,…

979.5 H55 1893 Library
An Original Research Paper on Prescott Metropolitan Park

by Carolyn H. Norton for Dr. Haines Spring Term 1960 for which she received a "C+" Title is questionable. Prescott Memorial Park ? rather than…

PAM 979.5286 N67 1960 Library
Shaniko People

Helen Guyton Rees, 1983

Dedicated to the people who wrested a home from the high desert of southern Wasco County, and helped tame the wild…

979.562 R43 1983 Library
Shaniko, From Wool Capital to Ghose Town

Helen Guyton Rees, 1982

Settlement, railroad, people, school, churches businesses, ranching, ghost town

979.562 R43 1982 Library
The History of Wallowa County, Oregon (2 copies)

History, census, industry, places, people, pictures

979.573, H67 1983 Library
For the Warmth of Generations: The Restoration of the Civilian Conservation Corps- Era Campstoves on the Upper Rogue River

by Brian R. Ballou. 1987 Prospect Ranger District, CCC camp on Union Creek, Emergency Conservation Works ECW. Place names mentioned: Rogue River…

PAM979.528 B36 Library
The Malheur National Forest, An Ethnographic History

By Jerry L. Mosgrove, USDA Forest Service 1980

Environment, Native American groups, military, forest history, maps and illustrations …

979.578 M68 1980l Library
Unforgettable Pioneers

by Barbara Hegne Families covered in this volume at the photos of  Mathews, Woolley, Corbett and Dudley Polk Smith, Turman, Dahak, Mayham (…

PAM 979.5283 H46 1985 Library
Warner Gore collection

Blue print for additions to the home of E. E. Gore// Music America Newspaper 1916// Warranty Deed - E. E. Gore and Hattie Gore// Abstract - T37,…

M49 C 4 Mezzanine List
Warner Gore Collection

Folder 1. The Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-School work "The Sunbeam" n5,6,17, 21, 31, 32, 33, 35

Folder 2. The Presbyterian…

M49 A 2 Mezzanine List
Directory of Streets and Roads in Jackson County, Oregon

California Oregon Power Company, January 18, 1960

917.9527 C34 1970 Library