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Early Oregon

This list covers Oregon History from prehistory to 1870, with an emphasis on the westward migration and settlement during the years 1840-1860. This selected list of nonfiction, circulating materials is for reading, school assignments and personal information rather than in-depth research. To learn more about our large Oregon collection of non-circulating materials, ask a librarian.

Diaries and histories

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Covered wagon women : diaries & letters from the western trails, 1840-1890
(1983-1993)
978.02 C873
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A Long and wearisome journey : the Eakin family diaries, 1866
(1993)
978.02 L848 1993
Adams, Cecilia
The Oregon Trail diary of twin sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852 : the unabridged diary
(1990)
917.804 A211o
Ambrose, Stephen E.
Undaunted courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West
(1996)
978.02 A496u
Applegate, Shannon
Skookum : an Oregon pioneer family's history and lore
(1988)
929.2 A66s
Bidwell, John
First three wagon trains: to California, 184l, to Oregon, 1842, to Washington, 1853
(1961?)
917.8 B57f
Coffman, Lloyd W.
Blazing a wagon trail to Oregon : a weekly chronicle of the Great Migration of 1843
(1993)
978.02 C675b
Federal Writers' Project
The Oregon Trail: The Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean
(1939)
917.8 F28
Gilliss, Julia
So far from home : an Army bride on the Western Frontier, 1865-69
(1993)
979.5041 G481s
Lavender, David Sievert
The way to the western sea : Lewis and Clark across the continent
(1988)
917.804 L399w
Lavender, David Sievert
Westward vision; the story of the Oregon Trail
(1963)
978 L41w
Lewis, Meriwether
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
(1997)
(edited by Bernard DeVoto)
917.8 L675jo 1997
Loewenberg, Robert J.
Equality on the Oregon frontier : Jason Lee and the Methodist Mission, 1834-43
(1976)
979.5 L827e
Masterson, Martha Gay
One woman's West : recollections of the Oregon Trail and settling the Northwest country
(1986)
979.503 M423o
Morrison, Dorothy Nafus
Outpost : John McLoughlin & the far Northwest
(1999)
B-M1653mn 1999
Nielsen, Lawrence E.
In the Ruts of the Wagon Wheels: Pioneer Roads in Eastern Oregon
(1987)
979.57 N669i
Nielsen, Lawrence E.
Roads of yesterday in Northeastern Oregon
(1990)
917.958 N669r
Palmer, Joel
Journal of travels over the Oregon Trail in 1845
(1993)
978.02 P174j 1993
Parkman, Francis
The Oregon Trail
(1994)
917.8 P249ore 1994
Ronda, James P.
Astoria & empire
(1990)
979.546 R771a
Ross, Alexander
Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River : 1810-1813
(2000)
917.95 R823 2000
Walker, Dale L.
Pacific destiny : the three-century journey to the Oregon country
(2000)
979.5 W178p 2000
Walker, Mary Richardson
On to Oregon : the diaries of Mary Walker and Myra Eells
(1998)
979.503 W187o 1998
Webber, Bert
Over the Applegate Trail to Oregon in 1846
(1996)
979.5 W369o

Pioneer life

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Wagon wheels & wild roses : heirloom recipes and Oregon trail stories from the McCaw family, 1847-1995
(1996)
641.59795 W135 1996
Calkins, Erica
Hatchet, hands & hoe : planting the pioneer spirit : a bushel of practical nostalgia
(1996)
635.09795 C155h
Williams, Jacqueline B.
The Way We Ate: Pacific Northwest Cooking, 1843-1900
(1996)
641.59795 W724w

Native peoples

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The First Oregonians : an illustrated collection of essays on traditional lifeways, federal-Indian relations, and the state's native people today
(1991)
979.5004 F527
Beckham, Stephen Dow
The Indians of western Oregon : this land was theirs
(1977)
979.5004 B396i
Clark, Ella
Indian legends of the Pacific Northwest
(1953)
398 C59
O'Donnell, Terence
An arrow in the earth : General Joel Palmer and the Indians of Oregon
(1991)
979.5 O26a
Ramsey, Jarold
Coyote was going there : Indian literature of the Oregon country
(1977)
398 C878
Rubin, Rick
Naked against the rain : the people of the lower Columbia River, 1770-1830
(1999)
973.04974 R896n 1999
Sauter, John
Tillamook Indians of the Oregon coast
(1974)
970.1 S261t
Zucker, Jeff
Oregon Indians : culture, history & current affairs, an atlas & introduction
(1983)
979.5004 Z94o

Maps

Farmer, Judith A.
An historical atlas of early Oregon
(1973)
Oversize 911.795 F23h
Franzwa, Gregory M.
Maps of the Oregon Trail
(1990)
911.78 F837m 1990
Hayes, Derek
Historical atlas of the Pacific Northwest : maps of exploration and discovery : British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Yukon
(1999)
Oversize 979.501 H417h 1999
Nolan, Cecile Alyce
Oregon Trail Map
(1992)
MAP 912.795 N787o 1992

Web sites and videos

Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail
http://www.nps.gov/lecl/
Overland Trail: Links to the Oregon Trail
http://www.over-land.com/trore.html
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At journey's end : life after the Oregon Trail
(1993)
VIDEO 978.02 AT
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Lewis & Clark: The journey of the Corps of Discovery
(1997)
VIDEO 917.8 LEWIS
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The Oregon Trail
(1992)
VIDEO 978.02 OREGON
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West to Oregon along the Oregon Trail
(1993)
VIDEO 917.8 WEST