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Mega Index
| Title | Body | Location | Source Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early History: Northern California Southern Oregon | Eugene M. French, Pat French, 1995, Ashland Daily Tidings, C. B. Watson |
979.5 F7 | Library | |
| Religion as an Influence in Life and Thought: Jackson County, Oregon, 1860-1890 | Wallace D. Farnham, 1955, thesis, Department of History, University of Oregon, John Doe, John Barleycorn |
979.5 FA | Library | |
| Pioneer Landmarks | Washington County Historical Society's Pioneer Landmarks by Clyde Keller copyrighted 1978 by Washington County Historical Society… |
979.543 K44 1978 | Library | |
| Oregon's Main Street: U.S. Highway 99 "The Folk History" | Pat Edwards, 2017, Jo-Brew, southern Oregon to the Interstate Bridge, newspaper excerpts, historical overview with folk narratives, photographs |
979.5 E39 | Library | |
| The Applegate Trail of 1846: A Documentary Guide to the Original Southern Emigrant Route to Oregon | William Emerson, 1996, early Oregon Territory history, the California Trail, Rogue Valley, Umpqua, Willamette Valley, glossary of wagon terms,… |
979.5 E53 | Library | |
| Environment and Experience--Settlement Culture in 19th Century OR | Environment and Experience Settlement Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oregon by Peter G. Boag University of California Press,… |
979.535 B66 1992 | Library | |
| Uncertain Encounters: Indians and Whites at Peace and War in Southern Oregon 1820s to 1860s | Nathan Douthit, 2002, Hudson's Bay Company, Rogue River War, estimates of Indian populations and mortality, statistical tables, illustrated with… |
979.5 D72 2002 | Library | |
| A Guide to Oregon South Coast History: Traveling the Jedediah Smith Trail | Nathan Douthit, 1999, illustrated with maps, photos, and illustrations, Florence to Bandon, Part 1: History, Part 2: Historic places, sites, and… |
979.5 D68 1999 | Library | |
| Lane County | Lane County, An Illustrated History of the Emerald Empire, by Dorothy Velasco including Native American history, settlers come out Oregon… |
979.531 V43 1985 | Library | |
| Oregon: A History | Gordon B. Dodds, 1977, early history (1500) to the 1970s, with illustrations, maps, and photographs |
979.5 D63 1977 | Library | |
| Life in Douglas County, Oregon | Life in Douglas County, Oregon; The Western Experience, by Fred Reenstjerna, research librarian and Jena Mitchell, photographic technician … |
979.529 R28 1993 | Library | |
| Oregon Pioneers | Rollien Dickerson, 1949, "A Presentation of Some Little Known Facts and Portraits in the Oregon of Yesterday, the Twilight of the Pioneer", folk… |
979.5 D52 1949 | Library | |
| Sweet Oregon: The DeMoss Family Lyric Bards-The West's Favorite Entertainers | Elbert Oliver DeMoss, 1995, musical entertainers, DeMoss Springs, illustrated with photographs, sheet music, concert flyers, concert programs |
979.5 D38 1995 | Library | |
| The Rogue River Valley's Early History | Venita Daley, 1948, a serial told in the Medford Mail Tribune, reviews A. G. Walling's History of Southern Oregon - 1884, includes newspaper… |
979.5 O Da | Library | |
| Two Generations of Oregon Pioneers: Unedited and Uncut | Charles George Davis, 1993, A Reconstructed History of the Overland Journey to the Oregon Country and Oregon Settlement Life of the David D… |
979.5 D2 | Library | |
| Pioneer Days in Canyonville | Pioneer Days in Canyonville (4 photos on cover: Phoebe Thrush Boyle, Isaac L. Boyle, Mary Rose Jackson John J. Jackson) Volume 2… |
979.529 P55 1969 | Library | |
| Sketch of the Oregon Territory: Or Emigrant's Guide | by Philip L. Edwards, 1971, account of Edwards's travels with the Nathaniel Wyeth expedition in 1834, copy of original printed in 1842 |
979.5 E38 1971 | Library | |
| Pioneer Days in the South Umpqua Valley | Pioneer Days in the South Umpqua Valley, Vol. No. 6 August 1973 The South Umpqua Historical Society, Inc., Canyonville, Oregon,… |
979.529 P55 1968 no. 6 | Library | |
| Pioneer Days in Canyonville and the South Umpqua Valley | Pioneer Days in Canyonville and the South Umpqua Valley, Vol. No. 3, August 1970 pioneer stories and photos of pioneers The South… |
979.529 P55 1968 no. 3 | Library | |
| History of the Willamette Valley, Biographical, vol. 3 | S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1927, two copies Accession #s 1962.191.3, 1958.143.3 |
979.5 C53 1927 v. 3 | Library | |
| History of the Willamette Valley, Biographical, vol. 2 | S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1927, two copies Accession #s 1962.191.3, 1958.143.2 |
979.5 C53 1927 v. 2 | Library | |
| Pioneer Days in Canyonville | "book" committee Lawrence Boyle, John Hamlin, Edith Moore, Ira Poole "Canyonville A Pioneer Town 1828-1868 1st of series of small… |
979.529 P55 1968 no. 1 | Library | |
| History of Willamette Valley Oregon vol. 1 | by Robert Carlton Clark, 1927, illustrated with photographs, chapters on geography, Indians, early exploration, fur trade, Hudson Bay Company,… |
979.5 C53 1927 | Library | |
| Cultural Resource Overview Umpqua Natl. Forest & Bureau of Land Management, Roseburg District | Cultural Resource Overview Umpqua National Forest and Bureau of Land Management Roseburg District Volume 1, July 1980 … |
979.529 O74 1980 | Library | |
| Nomination of Oakland to National Register of Historic Places | Nomination papers, Oakland, Oregon, Oregon Historic District, to National Register of Historic Places, 1978 papers include descriptions of… |
979.529 O13 1978 | Library | |
| Umpqua Valley Oregon and Its Pioneers | by Harold Avery Minter, Binfords & Mort, Publishers, Portland, OR 1967 "history of a river and its people" … |
979.529 M55 1967 | Library | |
| Early Oregon: 1850-1860 | by George E. Cole ca. 1905, Jottings of a Personal Recollection of a Pioneer 1850, the story begins with ships entering the Umpqua River sailing… |
979.5 C64 1905 | Library | |
| A Place Called Douglas County | prepared by Douglas County Planning Department, Keith L. Cubic, Director 2003 Third Edition under guidance of D.… |
979.529 J5 | Library | |
| Stars of Oregon: 1841-1941 | co. 1943 by Dean Collins, illustrated by Paul Keller, account of Joseph Gale, steamboats and other ships on the Columbia River up to World War II… |
979.5 C64 1943 | Library | |
| Historic Douglas County, Oregon 1982 | Douglas County Historical Society copyright 1982 biographical sketches and photos of individuals; family histories Douglas… |
979.529 H58 1982 | Library |