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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

 

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

 

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