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An Investigation into the Philosophy and the Subsequent actions of John Beeson in Regards to the American Indians

by Ernest D. Zottola Spring Term 1962 for Dr. F D Haines Southern Oregon College

920 B43 1962
Diary of Welborn Beeson Sr.

 Maroon three-ring binder:  typed manuscript July 22, 1851 to 31 Dec 1856 includes the crossing the plains portion of the diary in 1853…

920 B43 1950
1857,1858 and 1/1/1859-7/20/1859 Diaries of Welborn Beeson, Sr

by Welborn Beeson  copied by the University of Oregon Library, Special Collections Department 2/1/1985 for Mary Keating This copy indexed by…

920 B43 1985 pt. 2
Oregon Cemetery Survey

1978 survey of cememteries in the state of Oregon

917.95 074 1978
Indians Wars of Southern Oregon

by William M. Colvig from Oregon Historical Society Quarterly Vol 4 No3 Sep 1903 Address delivered to Indian War veterans. Author was a small boy…

970.495 C64
Contributions to the Archaeology of Oregon

Final Report on the Gold Hill Burial Site by Luther S. Cressman. 1933. 

970.495 C74 1933a
The Sandal and the Cave The Indians of Oregon

by L.S. Cressman . Reprint 1962 Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, OR. Foreword states: ...:introduction to the cultures of the Indians who…

970.495 C74 1981
Aboriginal Burials in Southwestern Oregon

by Luther Cressman.1933.  This book restricted to general public. from American Anthropologist Vol 35, 1933

Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians 2005-1015 Comprehensive Plan

July 2005 signed by Delores Pigsley, Tribal Council Chairman  Tabbed sections include : Introduction, History, Tribal Government, Portrait of…

970. 495 C6
Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest

by Ella E. Clark with illustrations by Robert Bruce Inverarity. 1953. University of California Press Includes sections on Myths of the Mountains,…

970.495 C53 1953 c.2
The Indians of Western Oregon, This Land Was Theirs

The Indians of the Western Oregon, This Land Was Theirs.  How the World Began, The First Americans, The Fight for Survival, and Reservation…

970.495 B 42 1977
Requiem For the People, the Rogue Indians and the Frontiersmen

Requiem For the People, The Rogue Indians and the Frontiersmen by Stephen Dow Beckham.  The Land and the People, The Opening of the Rogue…

970.495 B42 1971 c. 1
Fort Rock Basin, Prehistory and Environment

Fort Rock Basin, Prehistory and Environment by Stephen F. Bedwell, 1973.  Includes location, area description, method of Excavation, and…

970.495 B43 1973
The Land Remembers

Photographs inspired by the Rogue River Wars of Southern Oregon, 1851-56, by Rich Bergeman

970.495 B495 2018
Memoirs of The American Anthropological Association

Tribal Distribution in Oregon by Joel  V. Berreman. 1969. Includes information about tribes, Chinookan, Calapuyan, Clatskanie, Hokan ,…

970.495, Berreman, J
Ancient Modocs of California and Oregon

by Carrol B. Howe . 1979 Contents: The Discovery of Nightfire Island, The Cradle, Life from the Sky, Animal Foods of the Modoc, Nurture and…

970.3 M63 1978
The Modoc War

Its Military History and Topography by Erwin N. Thompson 1971. A study in cultural conflict.

970.494 T46 1971
The Navaho

by Clyde Kluckhohn and Dorthea Leighton. 1962  New Mexico and Arizona Navaho Indians 

Modoc Vengeance

The 1873 Modoc War in Northern California and Southern Oregon as reported in the newspapers of the day.  Compiled and edited by Daniel…

970.494 W6
Archeological Test Excavations of Ten Upland Sites on the Applegate Ranger District

by Lou Ann Nicholls, David R. Brauner, Shelley Smith 1983.  All sites have prehistoric material and one has historical material

970.495 A73 1983
Religious Ideas of the Takelma Indians of Southwestern Oregon

by Edward Sapir from Journal of American Folklife Vol 20 no. 76 (Jan- Mar 1907) pp 33-40

970.3 R63 1907a
Oregon Indians, Voices from Two Centuries

Edited by Stephen Dow Beckham, 2006.  Commentary by Native Americans about events affecting their lives in Oregon.  Seven thematic…

970.495 B39 2006
The Tolowa and Their Southwest Oregon Kin

by Philip Drucker University of California Publications in American Archeology and Ethnology, Vol 28 1936 Includes Tolowa towns and settlements,…

970.3 T69 1936
The Journal of California Anthropology Winter 1977

Imagemakers of the Modoc War: Louis Heller and Eadweard Muybridge by Peter Palmquist, page 206

970.494 P38
Tribes of California

Classic of American Indian ethnography. originally published in 1877 in its complete form by Stephen Powers, Introduction and Annotation by Robert…

970.494 F69 1976
The Modoc War -- A Symposium

The Journal of the Shaw Historical Library Vol. 3, No. 1, Fall 1988, A Native View by Thomas Doty, The Modoc War -- A Mirror tot he Future by…

970.494 S53
Hell with the Fire Out

A History of the Modoc War by Arthur Quinn 1997. Alfred B Meacham, Klamaths, Lava Beds, Lucretia Mott, Ulysses S. Grant

970.494 Q7
Jacksonville Historical Survey, Volume II

Researched, written and photographed by Gail E. H. Evans.  Formally presented to the CITY OF JACKSONVILLE by ALLEN, McMATH, HAWKINS…

979.5285 E93
Jacksonville Historical Survey, Volume I

Researched, written and photographed by Gail E. H. Evans.  Formally presented to the CITY OF JACKSONVILLE by ALLEN, McMATH, HAWKINS…

979.5285 E93 Volume I
Logging the Rogue Valley

by Barbara Hegne Author interviewed Elga Abbott, Lewis Biden, Howard and Mona Bishop, Dave Bliss, Frank Boothby, Bud Chandler, Sharold Chapman,…

634.982 H4 1991