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Mega Index
| Title | Body | Location | Source Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold and Silver in the West | The Illustrated History of an American Dream by T.H. Watkins 1971 brief mention of Oregon mines |
978 W38 1972 | Library | |
| A Room for the Night: Hotels of the Old West | by Richard A. Van Orman, 1966 |
978 1969.65.86235 1966 | Library | |
| The Plains Across | The Overland Emigrants and the Trans Mississippi West, 1840-60 by John D Unruh, Jr., 1979 |
978 U57 1979 | Library | |
| The Old Oregon Trail | Hearings by House of Representatives on marking the Old Oregon Trail. 1925 |
978 UNI 1925 | Library | |
| The Gamblers | by the editors of Time-Life Books, 1978 |
978 T34 1978 | Library | |
| The Scouts | by Keith Wheeler, 1978 the story of those who led others through unknown western territories |
978 T54 1978 | Library | |
| Captivity of the Oatman Girls | by R. B. Stratton, 1983 |
978 S87 1983 | Library | |
| Captivity of the Oatman Girls | by R. B. Stratton, 1969
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978 S98 1970 | Library | |
| The Oregon Trail: An American History | by Rebecca Stefoff, 1997 YA book |
978 S81 1997 | Library | |
| Mining Camps: a study in American Frontier Government | by Charles Howard Shinn, 1965 includes the story of Alcalde Rogers in Jacksonville. p. 191-198 |
978 S55 1965 | Library | |
| Westward Journeys | by Martin Ridge, 1989 memoirs of Jesse Applegate and Lavinia Honeyman Porter |
978 R54 1989 | Library | |
| Frontier Steel: the Men and Their Weapons | by Waldo Rosebush, 1958 Book 1 The First United States Dragoons, The Regiment of Mounted Riflemen, The Texas Rangers, Doniphan's… |
978 R68 1958 | Library | |
| Women's diaries of the Westward Journey | by Lillian Schlissel, 1982 diaries of Catherine Haun, Lydia Allen Rudd, Amerial Stewart Knight, and Jane Gould Tourtillott |
978 S35 1982 | Library | |
| Cities of the American West: A History of Frontier Urban Planning | by John W. Reps |
978 R46 1979 | Library | |
| The Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West | edited by Howard R. Lamar, 1977 America's frontier experience from the Colonial period to the Space Age |
978 R41 1977 | Library | |
| They Built the West an Epic of Rails and Cities | by Glenn Chesney Quiett, 1934 chronicals the building of the transcontinental railroad and several Western cities. |
978 Q53 1934 | Library | |
| In Search of the Golden West | The (Pioneer) Tourist in Western America by Earl Pomeroy, 1957 mostly California destinations |
978 P64 1937 | Library | |
| Frontier Children | by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith, 1999 children's lives in the American West in the latter half of the 1800s from many cultures |
978 P36 1999 | Library | |
| Methodism on the Klamath Reservation, 1871-1891 | by Chloe Schneider ... As early as 1871 and 1872 James Harer was assigned by the Oregon Conference, meeting in Portland, to "Klamath and… |
PAM 970.529 S34 1957 | Library | |
| The Oatman Story | researched and compiled by Hal and Doris Clark compilation of original research material on Olive Oatman's captivity by Native Americans in… |
978 O11 2002 | Library | |
| Ghost towns of the American West | By Bill O'Neal, 1995 Jacksonville, p.302-307 |
978 O58 1995 | Library | |
| Our Oregon Trail | Report to the Governor by the Oregon Trail Advisory Council 1988 |
978 O66 1988 | Library | |
| The Oxford History of the American West | edited by Clyde A. Milner II, Carol A. O'Conner, Martha A. Sandweiss, 1994 |
978 O98 1994 | Library | |
| Journal of Travels on the Oregon Trail in 1845 | by Joel Palmer, 1992 includes Nez Pierce and Chinook language, Oregon's Territorial constitution, what to take on the Oregon Trail and where… |
978 P17 PAL 1992 | Library | |
| Parkman's The Oregon Trail | by Francis Parkman, pocket addition 1910 series of narrative and descriptive sketches of the prairies and Rocky Mountains originally… |
978 PAR 1910 | Library | |
| Aboriginal Clay figurines from the Rogue River Area | presentation to the Oregon Academy of Science annual meeting by Lyman Deich, BLM, Feb. 26, 1977 includes drawings |
970.3 R63 Dei 1977 | Library | |
| Valley of the Rogues | by Percy Booth, 1970 published by Josephine Co. Library
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970.3 R63 Boo 1970 | Library | |
| The Takelma Indians of Southwestern Oregon | by Virginia D. Card, 1967 |
970.3 R63 Car 1967, c. 2 | Library | |
| Notes on the Takelma Indians of Southwestern Oregon | by Edward Sapir, 1907 American Anthropologist New Series, April-June, 1907, Vol.9 No. 2 |
970.3 R63 Sap 1907 | Library | |
| The People and the River |
A history of the Takelma indians of the upper rogue river country by Elizabeth Hackert, 1977 |
970.3 R53 Hec 1977 | Library |