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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

Library
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
The People Are Dancing Again

The People Are Dancing Again

The History of the Siletz Tribe of Western Oregon                by…

979.5 W55 Library
C B Watson articles

C B Watson articles

Pioneering in Southern Oregoncolumns  May 4, 1916 through March 14, 1930

plus A History of Southern Oregon

979.5 W38 Library
A Historical Overview of Roxy Ann Peak and Prescott Park

Jeffrey M. LaLande, 1983, Medford Parks and Recreation, geologic and human history, Civilian Conservation Corps, Bear Creek Valley, Takelma…

979.527 L34 1983 Library
Stories of Old Oregon

Stories of Old Oregon by George A. Waggoner    copyrighted December 29, 1904

"to the pioneers of Oregon"

Oregon's pioneers,…

979.5 W33 1905 Library
The Builders of Timberline Lodge

The Builders of Timberline Lodge

from the Works Progress Administration, Portland, Oregon, 1937

written by the Writer's Project;

979.5 W926 1937 Library
The DeAutremont Brothers: America's Last Great Train Robbery

Margaret LaPlante, 2009, crime, forensics, Gold Special Train 13, Tunnel 13, 1923, transportation, early 20th c. manhunt, illustrated with…

979.527 L35 Library
The River of the West, volume two

The River of the West, The Adventures of Joe Meek              by Frances Fuller Victor  1870 Hartford,…

979.5 V64 1985 v.2 Library
Early Jackson County Toll Roads, Tunnels, Ferries, and Bridges

Mark E. Lawrence, 1982, SOHS Trail Committee, transportation, Rogue Valley, Applegate Trail, includes maps

979.527 L39 1982 Library
An Early History of Table Rock, two copies

Katherine (Nealon) Huntress Leavitt, 1968, geological history, Indians, Euro-American settlers, agriculture, transportation, 1850-ca. 1933,…

979.527 L41 (copy two) Library
The Nealons of Table Rock

Katherine Nealon Huntress Leavitt, 1973, oral history, vital statistics, folklore, personal correspondence, Stephen Myers Nealon, Mary Eliza…

979.527 L42 Library
The River of the West, volume one

The River of the West, The Adventures of Joe Meek, volume one The Mountain Years, 

by Frances Fuller Victor; volume edited by Winfred…

979.5 V64 1983/v. 1 Library
The History of Library Services in Medford and Jackson County

Kay Ledward, 1968, youth services, school services, public services, censorship policies, use of materials, Medford library board, illustrated…

979.527 L43 1968 Library
The River of the West

The River of the West    

Life and Adventure in the Rocky Rountains and Oregon; Embracing Events in the Life-time of a Mountain-…

979.5 V52 1870 Library
A Population Survey of Eden Precinct: 1860, 1870, 1880

Audrey Lytle, 1958, Talent, Oregon, paper submitted to Dr. Francis Haines for the course History of the Pacific Northwest, December 15, 1958, 6…

979.527 L98 1958 Library
History of Oregon

History of Oregon    by Ephraim W. Tucker         (1970 copy)

"containing a condensed account of the most…

979.5 T82 1970 Library
Land in Common: An Illustrated History of Jackson County, Oregon, three copies

Joy B. Dunn (ed.), Natalie Brown (art director), 1993, forward by Samuel J. Wegner, introduction by Richard Maxwell Brown, chapters ordered…

979.527 L25 1993 Library
Oregon Argonauts

Oregon Argonauts

Merchant Adventurers on the Western Frontier

by Arhtur L. Throckmorton            …

979.5 T47 1961 Library
Sojourners in the Oregon Siskiyous: Adaptation and Acculturation of the Chinese Miners in the Applegate Valley, ca. 1855-1900

Jeffrey Max LaLande, 1981, MA Thesis, Oregon State University, southwestern Oregon, voluntary and involuntary acculturative behavior, historic…

979.527 L34 1981 Library
A Guide to the Study and Reading of the History of the Pacific Northwest

A Guide to the Study and Reading of the History of the Pacific Northwest

by Arthur Samuel Taylor, Associate Professor of Social Science,…

979.5 T39 1935 Library
The Hood River Issei

The Hood River Issei

An Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregon's Hood River Valley  by Linda Tamura

The Asian American…

979.5 T15 1993 Library