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Oregon History Books

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Oregon History Books

A (short) list of Oregon History Books that I own. List is created mostly so I can peruse it while visiting dusty antique stores, or moldy book stores during my travels and add to it.

“80 Years in the Same Neighborhood, A History of the Sandy, Oregon Area” by Phil Jonsrud

“A Song of Yamhill and Oregon’s Northwestern Willamette Valley” by Gordon N. Zimmerman

“A Touch of Oregon: Lovesong to a State” by Ralph Friedman

“The Adventures of Dr. Huckleberry: Tillamook County, Oregon,” by E.R. Huckleberry, M.D.

“Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813” by Alexander Ross, Robert J. Frank and William G. Robbins

“Adventures on the Columbia River” by Ross Cox

“All For Nothing: The True Story of the Last Great American Train Robbery” by Larry and Howard, John Sturholm

“The American Northwest: A History of Oregon and Washington” by Gordon B. Dodds

“Bathroom Book of Oregon Trivia: Weird, Wacky, and Wild” by Mark Thorburn and Lisa Wojna

“Battle Rock – The Hero’s Story” by Bert and Margie Webber

“Barlow Road” by Clackamas County Historical Society and Wasco County Historical Society

“Best of the Old Northwest: True Stories, Anecdotes, Legends and Mysteries of Those Exciting Times” by Marge Davenport

“Chronicles from Pedee, Oregon” by Lena Belle Tartar

“Columbia River Gorge History, Volume one by Jim Attwell

“Discovering Oregon” by Barbara Shangle

“Echoes From Old Crook County by Crook County Historical Society

“Empire of the Columbia by Dorothy O Johansen

“Fabulous Folks of the Old Northwest” by Marge Davenport

Ghost Towns of the American West by Berthold Steinhilber

“Ghost Towns of the West” by Lambert Florn

“Gold and Cattle Country” by Herman. Jackman (1961 edition)

“The Great Extravaganza: Portland And The Lewis And Clark Exposition” by Carl Abbott

“Great Moments In Oregon History” by Win Mccormack (and Dick Pintarich)

“Hiking Oregon’s History : The Stories Behind Historic Places You Can Walk to See” by William L. Sullivan

“Historical Atlas of Washington and Oregon” by Derek Hayes

Historical Oregon by R. N. Preston

“Konapee’s Eden Historic and Scenic Handbook : Of Columbia River Gorge” by Oral Bullard

“Life of Charles Erskine Scott Wood” by Erskine Wood

“Lincoln County Lore” by Lincoln County Historial Society

“Lost Mines and Treasures of the Pacific Northwest” by Ruby El Hult (1954 edition)

“Maury Mountains Historical Tour” by Crook County Historical Society

“Meriwether Lewis: A Biography” by Richard Dillon

“More on the Pendleton Underground” by Pam Severe

“Northwest Gem Trails: A Field Guide for the Gem Hunter, Mineral Collector and Tourist” by H. C. Dak

“Northwest Glory Days” by Marge Davenport

“The Oregon Book: Information A to Z” by Connie Battaile

“The Oregon Companion: An Historical Gazetteer of the Useful, the Curious, and the Arcane” by Richard H. Engeman

“The Oregon Desert by E.R. Jackman and R.A. Long

“Oregon Disasters: True Stories of Tragedy and Survival” by Rachel Dresbeck

“Oregon’s Dry Side: Exploring East of the Cascade Crest” by Alan D. St. John

“Oregon Geographic Names” (Copyright 1992) by Lewis A. MacArthur

“Oregon For the Curious” by Ralph Friedman

“Oregon Ghost Towns” by Lambert Florin

“Oregon’s Golden Years: Bonanza of the West” by Miles F. Potter

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume LIX, Number 3 – September 1958

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume LXC, No. 4 – December 1964

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume LXXXV, No. 3 – Fall, 1984

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume LXXXV, No. 4 – Winter, 1984

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume LXXXVII, No. 1 – Spring, 1986

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume LXXXVII, No. 2 – Summer, 1986

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 88, NO. 4 – WInter, 1987

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 89, NO. 1 – Spring 1988

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 89, NO. 3 – Fall 1988

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 90, NO. 1 – Spring 1989

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 90, NO.2 – Summer 1989

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 90, NO. 4 – Winter 1989

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 91, NO. 1 – Spring 1990

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 91, NO.2 – Summer 1990

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 93, NO.2 – Summer 1992

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 94, NO. 4 – Winter 1992-93

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 95, Number 4 – Winter 1994-95

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 96, Number 1 – Spring 1995

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 97, Number 1 – Spring 1996

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 97, Number 3 – Fall 1996

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 100, Number 3 – Fall 1999

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 100, Number 4 – Winter 1999

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 101, Number 2 – Summer 2000

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 102, Number 3 – Fall 2001

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 104, Number 3 – Fall 2003

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 104, Number 4 – Winter 2003

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 105, Number 1 – Spring 2004

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 105, Number 2 – Summer 2004

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 105, Number 3 – Fall 2004

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 105, Number 4 – Winter 2004

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 105, Number 4 – Summer 2005

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 106, Number 3 – Fall 2005

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 106, Number 4 – Winter 2005

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 107, Number 1 – Spring 2006

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 107, Number 2 – Summer 2006

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Vol 107, No. 3 – Fall 2006

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 107, Number 4 – Winter 2006

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 108, Number 1 – Spring 2007

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 108, Number 2 – Summer 2007

“Oregon Historical Quarterly” Volume 108, Number 3 – Fall 2007

Oregon: Then & Now by Steve Terrill, Thomas Robinson and John Daniel

“The Other Side of Oregon” by Ralph Friedman

“Outlaw Tales of Oregon: True Stories of Oregon’s Most Infamous Robbers, Rustlers, and Bandits” by Jim Yuskavitch

Portland, a Pictorial History by Harry Stein

“Portraits: Fort Rock Valley Homestead Years” by Helen Parks

“Pacific Coast (Tales of the Wild West Series)” by Rick Steber

“Picturesque Frontier: The Army’s Fort Dalles” by Priscilla Knuth

“Polk County Pioneer Sketches Volume 1 and 2” compiled by Sarah Childress

“Portland Confidential” by Phil Stanford

“The Rose City of the World by Ruby Fay Purdy

“The Sandal and the Cave: The Indians of Oregon” by Luther S. Cressman and Dennis L. Jenkins (1964 Red Cover edition)

“Steamboats on Northwest Rivers” by Bill Gulick

“Somewhere in Oregon” by Patrick c. Wilkins

“Spooky Oregon: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore” by S. E. Schlosser and Paul G. Hoffman

“Tales Out of Oregon” by Ralph Friedman

“Tall Tales from Rogue River: The Yarns of Hathaway Jones” edited by Stephen Dow Beckham

“Ten Years in Oregon. Travels and adventures of Dr. E. White and lady, west of the Rocky Mountains” Compiled by A. J. Allen. (1968 limited edition)

“Thirty-One Years In Baker County: A History Of The County From 1861 to 1893” by Isaac Hiatt

“We Claimed This Land: Portland’s Pioneer Settlers” by Eugene E. Snyder

“Weird Oregon: Your Travel Guide to Oregon’s Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets” by Al Eufrasio, Jefferson Davis, Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran

“Willamette Landings: Ghost Towns of the River” by Howard McKinley Corning

“Women of the West” by Max Binheim (1928 edition)
Wish List

“Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes 1850-1890”

“High Desert Roses, Volume Two: Lake County for the Curious (Volume 2)”

“Oregon Post Offices, 1847-1982” by Richard W. Helbock. Not to be confused with “A checklist of Oregon post offices, 1847-1988 (La Posta pocket guide series)” also by Mr. Helbock. The later is simply a checklist of canceled post office marks for collectors and of no use to me.

“Nimrod: Courts, Claims, and Killing on the Oregon Frontier” by Ronald B. Lansing

The Seven Toughest Men in Oregon History – Part 1

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The Seven Toughest Men in Oregon History – Part 1

Here are The Seven Toughest Men in Oregon History. Merely getting to Oregon in the first place separated the tough from the weak. Dangers such at Cholera, sickness, injury, malaria, scurvy, and worse of all, head and body lice. Once emigrants somehow managed to arrive successfully, they then had to wait out the long rainy fall and winter before being able to even start clearing fields and planting crops. Often they were already at the end of their food supplies and were left not option but to forage for food, or subsist on a single menu choice such as deer meat. It was often two or three years after their arrival before emigrants were growing a surplus of crops.

There were exactly two routes to Oregon during the 1800’s. Overland via the path now known as the Oregon Trail, or via ship all the way around South America and Cape Horn. Both routes were dangerous in themselves.

The Southern Route by ship around Cape Horn in South America was thought to be faster, but depending on who you talked to was either the safer or the more dangerous route. Until local industry and better transportation methods such as pack wagon trains and rail road came along, between 1840’s-1880’s this is the route that most goods shipped to Oregon took. Especially anything large and bulky. Between rough seas, unpredictable storms, unreliable charts, poorly maintained ships, and the risk of rotting food and contaminated water it was no pleasant sea voyage, yet thousands took this route.

But the vast bulk of immigrants to Oregon came over the Oregon Trail. Numbers range wildly from 260,000 to 1.2 million depending on the source. 500,000 seem to be the generally accepted number for 1841-1866. It’s estimated that roughly 2/3rds of these people went south to California, but the rest settled all across Oregon. Either way about 10% of these people died on the trail.

To be fair the below list includes many more then seven men. For instance trying to separate the Lewis and Clark expedition would fill this entire list by itself. Instead of order of “toughest” this is in rough Chronological order.

#1 Lewis and Clark Expedition

Analysis of the Japanese “invasion” of Hawaii

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Analysis of the Japanese “invasion” of Hawaii

This is a very nice article on the potential invasion of Hawaii by the Japanese in World War II after their victory at Midway. It’s quite illuminating, and explains a lot about how Japan was really doing during the war. Not pointed out specifically, it’s also quite apparent that Japan would have been pushed back sooner or later, so it’s no wonder the US concentrated on European Operations first.

It’s also apparent, that had the Japanese not attacked Peal Harbor in the first place, the war might have turned out much differently for them.

http://www.combinedfleet.com/pearlops.htm