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The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California OREGON CAB Ref 979 Fremont J Library
Bonanza Victorian 978.8 S861975 Library
The Historic Preservation Program for New Mexico V 2 978.9 N49 1973 v.2 Library
The Historical Preservation Program for New Mexico Volume 1 978.9 N49 1973 v1 Library
Historic Albuquerque Today 978.961 D49 1978 Library
First Across the Continent ORE CAB REF 979 Brooks, N Library
Prospecting for Gold 978.02 s88 1977 Library
The American West: a Twentieth Century History 978.03 25 1989 Library
World War II and the West 978.103 N24 1990 Library
Rogue Basin Project

1998.76.6: Green and off-white cover with image of Rogue River, "Rogue River Basin, Oregon, Water Resource Development." 
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M52 C 3 Mezzanine List
MS1398 collection

2015.60.33:  Volume 2 and 3 of three bound volumes of "Trains" magazine collection: 1960's, 70's, 80's

2015.60.34: Encyclopedia of…

M52 B 4 Mezzanine List
Abstract of Title 2440

Folder 1. Flyer by Kent Clair Chamberlain titled Northwest Fires and Other Poems in print with many handwritten notes all over it. -…

M51 C 6 Mezzanine List
Southern Oregon's Collegiate Women's Sports and Athletics

This article is a great overview of the SOU athletic scene from 1995 to 2025.  Dennis Powers writes about directors from Monty Cartwright, to…

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The Rogue River: Its History Over Time. Glen Woodridge's work

The Rogue has been a source of drinking water, irrigation, fishing, recreation, from Native Americans to present dayl  It travels 215 miles…

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Nonnative turkeys gobble up important habitat for native species

The Applegate watershed has a number of wild turkeys that threaten native species.  There are at least 45,000 in Oregon, coming from birds…

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A Cultural Inventory of the Nugget Butte Communications Site Project

These two packets of information from the Butte Falls Field Office describes the arrow and beacon fixtures that illuminated the way for the first…

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820 years of tree

News photo from 1985 Mail Tribune.  The huge tree was 8 1/2 feet in diameter.

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The Footlights Theater

Three newspaper clips of plays:  Farewell, Farewell Eugene, photo and cast, The Third Best Sport, cast and photo, and The Monkey's Paw and…

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Ruth Hickok Schubert, Obituary

December 24, 1927 to December 14, 2020.  Ruth was born and grew up in Janesville, Wisconsin, and started classes at the Chicago Institute of…

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Rita Katherine Mahoney, Obituaary

May 30, 1948--June 6, 2025.  Kathy was born in California, and moved to Ashland to study at Southern Oregon University.  Her specialty…

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Marc J. Valens, obituary

January 1939--October 14, 2025.  Marc has been a resident of Moondance Ranch in Beaty, Oregon, and has made his home in Southern Oregon since…

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Rogue River National Forest Roads

Historical Contest and Overview: The Development of Roads in the Cascade Area of the Rogue River National Forest, 1840s-1990s, submitted as part…

917.9527 L28 Library
Jackson County, Oregon, Resource Atlas

Natural, Human, Economic, Public, January 1974 by the Extension Community Development Project, Oregon State University

917.9527 O74 1973 Library
Jackson County: History, Places, People

by Marjorie O'Harra for the Jackson County Medical Society, 1979

917.9527 O33 1979 Library
Medford Oregon Rogue River Valley

Published by Medford Commercial Club Medford Oregon 1909

PAM 917.9527 M43 1909 c.4 Library
Medford Oregon Rogue River Valley

Published by Medford Commercial Club Medford Oregon 1910

PAM 917.9527 M43 1910 Library
A Study of the Economic Impact of the Pacific Northwest Museum of Natural History and Allied Activities on Jackson County and the State of Oregon

Prepared for The Pacific Northwest Raptor Rehabilitation Corporation by Southern Oregon Regional Services Institute, Southern Oregon State College…

917.9527 S68 Library
Climbing Mt. Pitt

Climbing Mt. Pitt by Ernest W. Smith, 1950

917.9527 S65 11950 Library
Development Analysis Rogue River Valley, Oregon

Economic and Development Analysis Rogue River Valley, Oregon, by Larry Smith & Company, 1964, Residential, Commercial, Industrial and…

917.9527 S55 1964 Library
The Sketch

The Sketch, Portland, Oregon, Published every Saturday by the Sketch Publishing Col, Incorporated.  1907. Dr. J.M. Keene, J.A. Perry, W.I…

917.9527 S54 1907 Library