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Historical Landscape Overview of the Upper Klamath River Canyon of Oregon and California

Historical Landscape Overview of the Upper Klamath River Canyon of Oregon and California

U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land…

979.591 B3 2006 Library
Gold Seeker: Adventures of a Belgian Argonaut during the Gold Rush Years

Jean-Nicolas Perlot, 1985, translated by Helen Harding Bretnor, edited by Howard R. Lamar, California, Portland, Yosemite Indians, 1850-1900,…

979 P42 Library
Around Klamath Country 1980

Around Klamath Country 1980, 

Around Klamath Country Staff: Robert L. Buschmann, Robert Sari, John St. Clair, Sylvia J. Buschmann

979.591 A76 1981 Library
The Pacific Slope: A History of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada

Earl Pomeroy, 1965, Far West history, gold rush, political history, economic history

979 P64 Library
Pioneer Jews: A New Life in the Far West

Harriet Rochlin, Fred Rochlin, 1984, illustrated with maps, sketches, and photographs, California, Oregon, gold rush, politics

979 R67 Library
Taming the Western Land: The Settlers' West

Martin F. Schmitt, Dee Brown, 1955, homesteaders, sod busters, exploration, fur trapping, folklore, politics, general history

979 S35 Library
Ranch Under the Rimrock

Ranch Under the Rimrock

by Dorothy Lawson McCall

copyright under international pan-american copyright conventions

copyright 1968…

979.583 M13 1968 Library
The Copper King's Daughter

The Copper King's Daughter  From Cape Cod to Crooked River

by Dorothy Lawson McCall

introduction by Governer Tom Lawson McCall (…

979.583 M13 1972 Library
Fur Trade and Empire: George Simpson's Journal 1824-1825

Fredrick Merk (ed.), 1931, fur trade, sea voyage, Hudson's Bay Company, Oregon Country, Indian life in Oregon 

979 Si 5 Library
Gold and Cattle Country

Gold and Cattle Country  by Herman Oliver

edited by E.R. Jackman

copyright 1961 by Binfords & Mort; Second Edition 1962

979.578 O45 1962 Library
Our Great Northwest

Arthur S. Taylor, Buena Cobb Stone, Irene Foster, 1954, primary school reader, illustrated by Warren Chase Merrit, Indian life, Pioneer days,…

979 T39 Library
Adventure in Railroading, The Siskiyou Line

Adventure in Railroading, The Siskiyou Line, Documentary

by Bert and Margie Webber

Webb Research Group Publishers; Books About the…

979.5821 W365 1998 Library
The Malheur National Forest

The Malheur National Forest, An Ethnographic History   by Jerry L. Mosgrove

USDA Forest Service 1980

Malheur National Forest, Joh…

979.578 M68 1980 Library
The history of Wallowa County, Oregon

The History of Wallowa County, Oregon 

published by Wallowa County Museum Board     Copyright 1983     by Wallowa…

979.573 H67 1983 c.2 Library
The History of Wallowa County, Oregon

The History of Wallowa County, Oregon  

published by Wallowa County Museum Board          copyright 1983

979.573 G67 1983 c.1 Library
The Western Shore: Oregon Country Essays Honoring the American Revolution

edited by Thomas Vaughn, 1976

979 V39 1976 Library
Founding the Far West

California, Oregon and Nevada, 1840-1890

by David Alan Johnson, 1992

979.02 J66 1992 Library
Bancroft's Handbook Almanac for the Pacific States 1863

section of Jackson County listing all town and county elected officials and grain and quartz mills979.059 H23 1863

979.059 H23 1863 Library
A Cavalryman in Indian Country

by Lieutenant Colonel Camillo Carr about his early career in the Indian country of Arizona

979.1 C37 1974 Library
Tombstone: Hamill's Picture Gallery

souvenir book of old photos and text. Includes monument ot Schieffelin who was from Southern Oregon, 1960

979.153 H34 1960 Library
They Came to Jerome

The billion dollar copper camp

by Herbert V. Young

979.157 Y69 1972 Library
Ghosts of Cleopatra Hill

Men and Legends of Old Jerome AZ

by Herbert V. Young, 1974

979.157 Y 69 1974 Library
Of Mice and Magic: The hIstory of American animated cartoons

by Leonard Maltin, 1980

includes section on Pinto Colvig

979.303 M3 1980 Library
The Annotated Cartoons

by Homer C. Davenport, 1898

some Oregon cartoonitsts and many political issues represented

979.303 D38 2013 Library
The Argonauts of California

by C.W Haskins, 1890

includes names of many 49ers who both came overland and in named ships.

979.4 H38, 1890 Library
Redding and Shasta County

Gateway to the Cascades

An Illustrated history by John D. Lawson, 1986

979.4 L2n Library
From Wilderness to Empire: A History of California

Robert Glass Cleland, Glen Dumke (ed.), 1959, early exploration, Spanish Conquistadores, missions, statehood, recent history, illustrated with…

979.4 C54 Library
Christmas in the Gold Fields, 1949

Joseph J. McCloskey & Hermann J. Sharmann, 1959, personal narratives, folk tales, pioneer history, California, illustrated with sketches

979.4 C47 Library
Life in California Before the Gold Discovery

 John Bidwell, 1966, Sacramento Valley, early pioneers, personal narrative, John C. Fremont, John A. Sutter, illustrated with sketches

979.4 B53 Library
The Journal of a Trip Around the Horn as Written and Printed on the Ship Henry Lee

George G. Webster and Linville J. Hall, 1970 (1849), exploration, sea voyage, California history, merchants, navigation, illustrated with sketches…

979.404 Library