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Timberline Lodge

Timberline Lodge   edited by Rachael Griffin and Sarah Munro

friends of Timberline, Portland, Oregon (John A. Mills, exec. secy)  …

979.549 T54 1978 Library
A Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America

Gabriel Franchere, 1968, Milo Milton Quaife, disembark in Oregon, Astoria, Columbia 

979.5 F85 Library
This Side of Oregon

Ralph Friedman, 1985, Phoebe Friedman photographs, early history, Blue Bucket Mine, James O'Neal, early pioneers 

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East of the Cascades

East of the Cascades by Phil F. Brogan    1965  copyrighted 1964 by Binfords & Mort

text and photos to tell story of…

979.55 B75 1965 Library
Oregon Ghost Towns

Lambert Florin, 1970, Jacksonville, Kerby, Kernville, photographs

979.5 F56 Library
Adventure at Astoria 1810-1814

Gabriel Franchere, 1967, Hoyt C. Franchere, voyages on the ship Tonquin up the northwest coast of North America, Astoria Enterprise,…

979.5 F8 Library
History of Hood River County

History of Hood River County  1852  Oregon   1982

copyrighted by the Hood River County Historical Society 1982

book…

979.561 H67 1982 Library
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