The Coos Bay Region 1890-1944

The Coos Bay Region 1890-1944   Life On  A Coastal Frontier

by Nathan Douthit   copyright 1981

River West Books, Library of Congress catalog number 81-84797, ISBN 0-9607192-0-2

     for Bandon Historical Society Press, Bandon, Oregon

1. Impressions of a Coastal Frontier; 2. Shipbuilding on Coos Bay and the Coquille River

3. Ships at Sea and Coastal Harbors; 4. Overland to Coos Bay; 5. Boosting the Towns; 6. Town Life

7. Country Life on Rivers and Inlets; 8. The Foreign Born; 9. Timber, Mills and Markets; 10. Workers and Early Unions

11. Wreck of the Santa Clara; 12. Experience of War (WWI); 13. Coming of Age in the Twenties (1920's), 

14. The Passing of a Coastal Frontier

many photos with explanations