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The Umpqua Trapper

Winter 2025 issue of a quarterly magazine produced by Douglas County Historical Society includes an article on the Civilian Conservation Corps (…

G2 F Library
History of Oregon

Biographical

Volume 1 covers the first aboriginal inhabitants, the Spanish exploration, early English explorers, including the fur traders,…

979.5 C37 1922 Vol. 1 Library
The Story of Oregon and its People

Probably an early textbook, owned by a mother, then a son 

Charles H. Chapman, PhD

 OP Barnes, Pub 1909

979.5 C36 1909 Library
Oregon Territory

A report to the 28th Congress, 1st session March 12, 1844 

a report: to not organize a new and distinct Territorial Government for…

979.5 B76 1967 Library
The Exploration of the Columbia River, 1792

An Extract from the Journal of Captain George Vancouver

by Lt W.R. Broughton, Oct. 1792

reprinted by the Press of Longview Daily News…

979.5 B76 1926 Library
The Bridge Tender

vols.4,No.2, No.3, No.4; vols.5, No.1, No.2, No.3; vols. 7, No1, No.4

Magazine dedicated to the covered bridges of Oregon, from Summer, 1982…

979.5B7 Library
Valley of the Rogues

Jr High book written in 1978, recollections of white men about the early tribes.

by Percy T Booth

Josephine County Historical Society…

979.5B Library
The Willamette Valley

Migration and Settlement of the Oregon Frontier

by William A Bowen

University of Washington Press, 1978

979.5 B69 1978 Library
Historic Capitols of Oregon... an illustrated chronology

researched and written by William Allen Bentson

Oregon Library Foundation 1987

979.5 BENTSON W Library
Oregon Historic Trails Report

History  and survey of historical Oregon Trails, with recommentadtions for next steps

compiled by Karen Bassett, Jim Renner, and Joyce…

979.5 B3 Library
As It Was

Stories from the History of Southern Oregon and Northern California up to 1998, chosen from the hundreds of scripts written for the program by…

979.5 B27 1998 Library
People and the River: A History of the Human Occupation of the Middle Course of the Rogue River of Southwestern Oregon Vol. 1

A project of the Bureau of Land Management regarding the Rogue River

 Indians and the River by Dennis Gray

The Historic Era by…

979.5 A88 1995 Library
"As It Was" Scripts Jan, 2005 to April 2006

Includes 266 scripts written by various volunteers of the Southern Oregon Historical Society. Very short vignettes. Most have sources cited.

979.5 A83 2005 Library
Jesse Applegate: a Dialogue with Destiny

A researched, comprehensive, historical perspective written by one of his ancestors. It includes a list of ancestors and descendents down to Flora…

979.5 A66 2010 Library
Recollections of My Boyhood

by Jesse Applegate, Oregon Pioneer of 1843, son of Lindsay Applegate

     Includes memories of their trip from the…

979.5 A67 Library
Proceedings of the First Annual Symposium of Association of Oregon Archaeologists

Papers include:  Research in the John Day Dam Project Area. Winter of 1979-80; The Halverson Site (35LA261): A Seasonal Campsite in the Upper…

979.5 A76 1980 no. 1 Library
Contributions to The Archaeology of Oregon 1981-1982 979.5 A76 1980 no.2 Library
Oregon Humanities

 Winter 2026 magazine published by the Oregon Humanities in Portland, Oregon  This  issue features articles on the topic of "…

M70 F Library
Talent News Flashes, 1961

Please visit the general Talent News Flashes page for further information. 

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A Day with the Cow Column in 1843

by Jesse A. Applegate

edited with introduction and notes by Joseph Schafer, Supt. of State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1934

979.5 A66 1990 Library
A Day With the Cow Column in 1843

by Jesse Applegate, introduction by Dr. Dorothy Johansen, 1952

979.5 A66 1952 Library
A Day with the Cow Column in 1843 / Recollections of My Boyhood

by Jesse A. Applegate, Oregon Pioneer of 1843

edited with introduction and notes by Joseph Schafer, Supt. of State Historical Society of…

979.5 A66 1934 Library
Applegate Trail: Impressions and Experiences of Emigrants and Other Travelers

visual inventory and bibliography submitted to Applegate Trail Coalition by Stephen Dow Beckham, 1995

 

979.5 A648 1995b v.2 c.2 Library
Applegate Trail: Impressions and Experiences of Emigrants and Other Travelrs

submitted to Applegate Trail Coalition by Stephen Dow Beckham, 1995

a compilation of primary documents related to the transit of the…

979.5 A648 1995a v.1 c.2 Library
Applegate Trail: Impressions and Experiences of Emigrants and Other Travelers

a visual inventory and bibliography submitted to Applegate Trail Coalition

by Stephen Dow Beckham, 1995

979.5 A648 1995b v.2 c.a Library
Applegate Trail: Impressions and Experiences of Emigrants and Other Travelrs

submitted to Applegate Trail Coalition by Stephen Dow Beckham, 1995

compilation of primary documents related to the transit of Applegate…

979.5 A648 1995a v.1 c.1 Library
Stories of Oregon

by Eva Greenslit Anderson and Dean Collins, illustrated by Paul Keller, 1949

979.5 A53 1949 Library
The Southern Branch of the Oregon Trail / The Applegate Trail

by Kay Alsing, published in Ashland Daily Tidings 1996

979.5 A5 Library
San Francisco's Golden Era

by Lucius Beebe & Charles Clegg, Berkeley, 1960

"a picture story of San Francisco before the fire"

979.461 B41 1960 Library
San Francisco: mission to metropolis

by Oscar Lewis, Berkeley, 1966

154 illustrations

979.461 L67 1966 Library