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The Oregon Trail Revisited (3 copies)

Written by Gregory M. Franzwa (1988). In two parts, this book offers a brief history on the Oregon Trail and modern traveler advise on visiting…

917.8 F73 1988 Library
Over the Applegate Trail to Oregon in 1846 (3 copies)

Written by Bert Webber (1996). This book covers an overview of the Applegate Trail. People covered in this book are- J. Quinn Thornton, Mrs.…

917.8 W37 1996 Library
The Oregon and Applegate Trail: The Diary of Welborn Beeson in 1853 (3 copies)

Written by Welborn Beeson with an Introduction by Bert Webber. This is an unabridged diary of Welborn Beeson that offers a primary resource of an…

PAM 917.8 B41 1993 Library
Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: Volume 1 A-F (2 copies)

Written by Dan Thrapp (1990). This encyclopedia covers approximately 4,500 frontier figures. Paperback 547 pages.

920.073 T52 1990 V1 Library
Gold Rush: The Journals, Drawings, and Other Papers of J. Goldsborough Bruff (2 copies)

Edited by Georgia Willis Read and Ruth Gaines (1949). This books is a collection J. Goldsborough Bruff records from 1849-1851.

Hardcover 562…

917.94 B78 1949 Library
Great Trails of the West

Written by Richard Dunlap (1971). This book covers different trails heading west. Trails covered are: Santa Fe Trail, Applegate Trail, Oregon…

917.9 DUN 1971 Library
The Great West

Edited by Charles Neider (1997). In three parts, this books is a collection of works that provides an expansive overview of the history of the…

978 NEI 1958 Library
The California and Oregon Trail

Written by Francis Parkman Jr. (1849). Very fragile copy. Please do not open unless have to.

This cover Parkmans 1846 journey along the…

978 PAR 1849 Library
The Gold Rush Trail and the Road to Oregon

Written by Todd Webb (1963). In four parts this chronicles the trails to California and Oregon. 

Part 1- The Prelude

Part 2- The…

978 WEB 1963 Library
The Amazing Story of the Applegates in America

Written by Sharon Taylor (1984). This book chronicles the history of the Applegate family.

929.2 TAY 1984 Library
Seven Trails West

Written by Arthur King Peters (1996). Peters provides an overview of the western trail network covering, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the Santa…

978 PET 1996 Library
On The Oregon Trail

Written by Jonathan Nicholas and Photographs by Roy Cronin (1992). Nicholas and Cronin offer a narative and photographic journey of the Oregon…

917.8 NIC 1992 Library
Southern Route into Oregon: Notes and New Map

by Buenna Cobbstone

Oregon Historical Quarterly June 1946

979.5 S86 1946 Library
Bohemians in Oregon

by Michael Stastny, 1950

Bohemian settlements in Scio and Klamath Falls

979.5 S73 1950 Library
A History of Placer Gold Mining in Oregon, 1850-1870

by Christian August Spreen

Master's thesis from Univ. of Oregon, June, 1939

979.5 S67 1939 Library
The Applegate Trail

Journal of the Shaw Historical Library Volume 10, 1996

979.5 S53 Library
The Pacific Northwest

An Interpretive history by Carlos A Schwantes, 1989

979.5 S39 1989 Library
Historic Silver City. The Story of the Owyhees.

by Mildretta Adams

PAM 979.621 A33 1960 Library
The History of the Klamath County Courthouse

History of the Pac N.W.
by John Heitsmith

PAM 979.591 H43 1959 Library
The Great Courthouse Battle; Klamath County Museum Research Paper No. 7

Fourteen years of research of museum archives collected over twenty-four years, consisting of documents, ledgers, physical exhibits, photographs,…

PAM 979.591 D74 1976 Library
Klamath County Museum Research Papers no. 5; Houston's Opera House

With interviews of "Old Timers", By C. William Burk

PAM 979.591 B87 1972 Library
Preservation and Restoration Kam Wah Chung and Co.

Preservation and restoration feasibility report for Kum Wah Chung and company with photographs to record the building, building details, and the…

PAM 979.578 S73 1972 Library
Baker County Sketch Book

Sketchbook of Baker County with illustrations
by Gordon and Patricia Stewart

PAM 979.575 S74 1956 Library
Bybee Howell House on Sauvie Island

The Oregon Territorial Farmstead
Thomas Vaughan

PAM 979.549 V39 1974 Library
A Sense of Place; How do we preserve it?

An Historic Preservation Program for Lane County.

PAM 979.531 S45 1978 Library
Doorways into History

The homes and public buildings established by the pioneers of Lane County in the early days.

PAM 979.531 H37 1966 Library
The Passing of District 66

By Mary Wells
Elkton, Oregon

PAM 979.529 W44 1945 Library
Umpqua Cavalcade

Produced in 1952 to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of Douglas County, and to commemorate the spirit of the early pioneers.

PAM 979.529 U46 1952 Library
The Burchards Settle in Scottsburg

Presented to Dr. F. Haines by Pat Urie, History of the Pacific Northwest, June 3. 1960
Illustrated with actual photographs of the Burchards…

PAM 979.529 U75 1960 Library
Souvenir of Jacksonville, Oregon

Jacksonville Gold Rush Jubilee
August 4th and 5th
1962

PAM 979.5285 G64 1962 Library