Bibliography of Oregon history explained
See main article: History of Oregon.
The following published works deal with the cultural, political, economic, military, biographical and geologic history of pre-territorial Oregon, Oregon Territory and the State of Oregon.[1]
Surveys of Oregon history
- Book: Bancroft, Hubert Howe . Hubert Howe Bancroft . History of Oregon 1834-1848 (The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. Vol. 29) . The History Company. San Francisco, CA. . 1886 .
- Book: Bancroft, Hubert Howe . History of Oregon 1848-1888 (The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. Vol. 30) . The History Company. San Francisco, CA. . 1888 .
- Book: Corning, Howard McKinley . Oregon: End of the Trail. Binfords & Mort. Portland, OR. . 1940 .
- Book: Dicken, Samuel N.. Emily F. Dicken . The Making of Oregon: A Study in Historical Geography . Oregon Historical Society Press . Portland, OR. . 1979 . 978-0-87595-081-5 .
- Book: Dodds, Gordon B. . Oregon: A Bicentennial History . W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. . New York, NY. . 1977 . 0-393-05632-5 . registration .
- Book: Dodds, Gordon B. . The American Northwest: A History of Oregon and Washington . The Forum Press, Inc. . Arlington Heights, IL. . 1986 . 0-88273-239-0 .
- Book: Egan, Timothy . Timothy Egan . The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest . Alfred A. Knopf . New York, NY. . 1990 . 0-679-73485-6 .
- Hines, H. K. (Harvey Kimball) (1893). An illustrated history of the state of Oregon (microform) : containing a history of Oregon from the earliest period of its discovery to the present time, together with glimpses of its auspicious future ; illustrations and full-page portraits of some of its eminent men and biographical mention of many of its pioneers and prominent citizens of to-day. Canadiana.org. Chicago : Lewis Pub. Co.
- Book: Johansen, Dorothy O. . Charles Gates . Empire of the Columbia: A History of the Pacific Northwest . Harper & Row, Publishers . New York, NY. . 1967 .
- Book: Marsh, Tom. Tom Marsh (Oregon politician). To the Promised Land: A History of Government and Politics in Oregon. Oregon State University Press. 2012. 978-0-87071-657-7.
- Book: Pomeroy, Earl . The Pacific Slope: A History of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada . Alfred A. Knopf . New York, NY. . 1965 .
- Book: Potter, Miles . Oregon's Golden Years: Bonanza of the West . The Caxton Printers, Ltd. . Caldwell, ID. . 1976 . 0-87004-254-8 .
- Book: Robbins, William G. . Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story 1800-1940 . University of Washington Press . Seattle, WA. . 1977 . 0-295-97901-1 .
- Book: Schwantes, Carlos Arnaldo . The Pacific Northwest: An Interpretive History . University of Nebraska Press . Lincoln, NE. . 1996 . 0-8032-4225-5 .
- Book: Scott, Leslie M. . Oregon Historical Quarterly . . 1924 .
- Stack, William C. Historic Photos of Oregon (2010)
Pre-statehood
- Book: Clark, Malcolm Jr. E. Eden Seekers: The Settlement of Oregon 1818-1863 . Houghton Mifflin Company . Boston, MA. . 1981 .
- Book: Cook, Warren . Flood Tide of Empire: Spain and the Pacific Northwest 1543-1810 . Yale University Press . New Haven, CT . 1973 . 978-0-300-01577-5 .
- Book: Gibson, James R. . Farming the Frontier: The Agricultural Opening of the Oregon Country 1786-1846 . University of Washington Press . Seattle, WA. . 1985 . 0-295-96297-6 .
- Book: Gough, Barry M. . The Northwest Coast: British Navigation, Trade, and Discovery to 1812 . University of British Columbia Press . Vancouver, BC. . 1992 . 0-7748-0399-1 .
- Book: Irving, Washington . Washington Irving. Astoria; or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains. 2 vols. . Carey, Lea & Blanchard . Philadelphia . 1836 .
- Book: Lowenberg, Robert J. . Equality on the Oregon Frontier: Jason Lee and the Oregon Mission 1834-1843 . University of Washington Press . Seattle, WA. . 1975 . 0-295-95491-4 .
- Book: Rich, E. E. . The History of the Hudson's Bay Company 1670-1870. 2 vols. . Hudson's Bay Record Society . London . 1958–59 .
Historic expeditions
- Book: Fremont, John Charles . Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-'44 . Gales and Seaton, Printers . Washington, DC. . 1845 .
- Book: Goetzmann, William H. . Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West . Alfred A. Knopf. New York, NY.. 1966 .
- Book: . Overton . Johnson . William H. . Winter . 1846 . reproduced in the Oregon Historical Quarterly, 1906 .
- Book: Nokes, J. Richard . Almost A Hero: The Voyages of John Meares, R.N., to China, Hawaii, and the Northwest Coast . Washington State University Press . Pullman, WA. . 1998 . 0-87422-155-2 .
- Book: Nokes, J. Richard . Columbia's River: The Voyages of Robert Gray 1787-1793 . Washington State Historical Society . Tacoma, WA. . 1991 . 0-917048-68-7 .
- Book: Wilkes, Charles . Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, Vols. 4-5 . Lea and Blanchard . Philadelphia . 1845 .
Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806)
See main article: Lewis and Clark Expedition and Bibliography of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
- Book: Ambrose, Stephen E. . Stephen E. Ambrose . . Simon & Schuster . New York . 1996 . 0-684-81107-3 .
- Book: Moulto, Gary E. . The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Vols. 5-7 . University of Nebraska Press . Lincoln, NE. . 1988–91 .
Geography and environment
- Bell, Jon. On Mount Hood: A Biography of Oregon's Perilous Peak (2011)
- Dillow, Frank. "Connecting Oregon: The Slow Road to Rapid Communications, 1843-–2009." Oregon Historical Quarterly 111.2 (2010): 184–219. in JSTOR
- Hayes, Derek. Historical Atlas of Washington and Oregon (2011)
- Book: Loy, William G. . Stuart Allen . Clyde Patton . Atlas of Oregon . University of Oregon . Eugene, OR. . 1976 .
- Book: McArthur, Lewis A. . Oregon Geographic Names 6th ed. . Oregon Historical Society . Portland, OR. . 1992 . 0-87595-278-X .
- Book: Meinig, Donald W. . The Great Columbia Plain: A Historical Geography 1805-1910 . University of Washington Press . Seattle, WA. . 1968 .
- Book: McKelvey . Susan Delano . Botanical exploration of the trans-Mississippi West, 1790-1850 . 1991 . . . 978-0-87071-513-6 . 1052686671 . 23 January 2024.
Business, industry and labor
- Book: Beckham, Dow . Stars in the Dark: Coal Mines of Southwestern Oregon . Arago Books . Coos Bay, OR. . 1995 . 0-930998-06-5 .
- Book: Beckham, Stephen Dow . O&C Sustained Yield Act: the Land, the Law, the Legacy . U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management . Portland, OR. . 1987 .
- Book: Beckham, Stephen Dow . Taylor Grazing Act in Oregon 1934-1984 . U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Portland, OR. . 1984 .
- Book: Bergoffen, William W. . 100 Years of Federal Forestry . U. S. Department of Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 402, Government Printing Office . Washington, D. C. . 1976 .
- Brock, Emily K. Money Trees: The Douglas Fir and American Forestry, 1900-1944 (Oregon State University Press, 2015). 272 pp.
- Book: Cox, Thomas R. . Mills and Markets: A History of the Pacific Coast Lumber Industry to 1900 . University of Washington Press . Seattle, WA. . 1974 . 978-0-295-95349-6 .
- Book: Disque, Brice P. . History of Spruce Production Division, United States Army . United States Spruce Production Corporation, n.p. . c. 1919 .
- Book: Dodds, Gordon B. . Craig E. Wollner . The Silicon Forest: High Tech in the Portland Area 1945-1986 . Oregon Historical Society . Portland, OR. . 1990 . 978-0-87595-230-7 .
- Book: Gamboa, Erasmo . Mexican Labor and World War II: Braceros in the Pacific Northwest 1942-1947 . University of Texas Press . Austin, TX. . 1990 . 0-295-97849-X.
- Book: Greever, William S. . The Bonanza West: The Story of Western Mining Rushes 1848-1900 . University of Oklahoma Press . Norman, OK. . 1963 .
- Book: Hyman, Harold . Soldiers and Spruce: Origins of the Loyal Legion of Loggers & Lumbermen . Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California . Los Angeles, CA. . 1963 .
- Book: Oliphant, J. Orin . On the Cattle Ranges of the Oregon Country . University of Washington Press . Seattle, WA. . 1968 .
- Book: Puter, S. A. D. . Looters of the Public Domain . The Portland Printing House, Publishers . Portland, OR. . 1908 .
- Book: Richardson, Elmo . BLM's Billion-Dollar Checkerboard: Managing the O & C Lands . Forest History Society . Santa Cruz, CA. . 1980 .
- Book: Simpson, Peter K. . The Community of Cattlemen: A Social History of the Cattle Industry in Southeastern Oregon 1869-1912 . . Moscow, ID. . 1987 . 0-89301-117-7 .
- Book: Steen, Harold K. . The Beginning of the National Forest System . U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service FS-488 . 1991 .
- Book: Steen, Harold K. . The Origin of the National Forests: A Centennial Symposium . Forest History Society . Durham, NC. . 1992 .
- Book: Tyler, Robert L. . Rebels of the Woods: The I.W.W. in the Pacific Northwest . University of Oregon . Eugene, OR. . 1967 .
Military histories
- Book: Fletcher, Randol B. . Hidden History of Civil War Oregon . The History Press . Gloucestershire . 2011 . 978-1-60949-424-7 .
- Book: Frazer, Robert W.. Forts of the West: Military Forts and Presidios and Posts Commonly Called Forts West of the Mississippi River to 1898 . University of Oklahoma Press . Norman, OK. . 1965 .
- Book: Frazer, Robert W.. Mansfield on the Condition of the Western Forts 1853-54. . University of Oklahoma Press . Norman, OK. . 1963 .
- Book: Settle, Raymond . The March of the Mounted Riflemen From Fort Leavenworth to Fort Vancouver, May to October 1849 . University of Nebraska Press . Lincoln, NE. . 1989 . 0-8032-9196-5 .
- Book: Webber, Bert . Retaliation: Japanese Attacks and Allied Countermeasures on the Pacific Coast in World War II . Oregon State University Press . Corvallis, OR. . 1975 . 0-87071-076-1 .
- Book: Willingham, William F. . Army Engineers and the Development of Oregon: A History of the Portland District . U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Government Printing Office . Washington, DC. . 1983 .
Native American histories
- Book: Aikens, C. Melvin . Archaeology of Oregon . Oregon State Office, U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management . Portland, OR. . 1986 ., on Indians
- Book: Beckham, Stephen Dow . The Indians of Western Oregon: This Land Was Theirs . Arago Books . Coos Bay, OR. . 1977 . 0-930998-03-0.
- Book: Beckham, Stephen Dow . Requiem for a People: The Rogue Indians and the Frontiersmen . University of Oklahoma Press . Norman, OK. . 1971 . 0-87071-521-6.
- Book: Buan, Carolyn M. . Richard Lewis . The First Oregonians: An Illustrated Collection of Essays on Traditional Lifeways, Federal- Indian Relations, and the State's Native People Today . Oregon Council for the Humanities . Portland, OR. . 1991 . 1-880377-00-4 .
- Book: Josephy, Alvin M. Jr. . The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest . Yale University Press . New Haven, CT. . 1965 .
- Book: O'Donnell, Terrence . An Arrow in the Earth: General Joel Palmer and the Indians of Oregon . Oregon Historical Society Press . Portland, OR. . 1991 . 0-87595-155-4 .
- Book: Ruby, Robert H. . John A. Brown . A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest . University of Oklahoma Press . Norman, OK. . 1986 . 0-8061-4024-0 .
- Book: Ruby, Robert H. . Indians of the Pacific Northwest: A History . University of Oklahoma Press . Norman, OK. . 1981 . 0-8061-1731-1 .
- Book: Suttles, Wayne . Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 7, Northwest Coast . Smithsonian Institution . Washington, D.C. . 1990 . 0-16-020390-2 .
- Book: Walker, Deward E. Jr.. Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 12, Plateau . Smithsonian Institution . Washington, D.C. . 1998 . 0-16-049514-8 .
Local and regional histories
- Abbott, Carl. "From urban frontier to metropolitan region: Oregon's cities from 1870 to 2008." Oregon Historical Quarterly (2009): 74–95. online
- Book: Allen, Barbara . Homesteading the High Desert . Utah State University . Logan, UT. . 1987 . 0-87480-268-7 .
- Book: Armstrong, Chester H. . History of the Oregon State Parks (1917-1963) . Oregon State Highway Department . Salem, OR. . 1965 .
- Book: Barlow, Jeffrey . Christine Richardson . Gum San: Land of the Gold Mountain. The High Desert Museum . Bend, OR. . 1991 .
- Book: Beckham, Dow . Bandon-by-the-Sea: Hope and Perseverance in an Oregon Coastal Town . Arago Books . Coos Bay, OR. . 1998 .
- Book: Beckham, Stephen Dow . Land of the Umpqua: A History of Douglas County, Oregon . Douglas County Commissioners . Roseburg, OR. . 1986 .
- Book: Bowen, William A. . The Willamette Valley: Migration and Settlement on the Oregon Frontier . University of Washington Press . Seattle, WA. . 1978 . 0-295-95590-2 .
- Book: Brimlow, George Francis . Harney County, Oregon, and Its Range Land . Binfords & Mort, Publishers . Portland, OR. . 1951 .
- Book: Clark, Keith . Lowell Tiller . Terrible Trail: The Meek Cutoff 1845 . The Caxton Printers, Ltd. . Caldwell, ID. . 1967 . 0-89288-233-6 .
- Book: Douthit, Nathan . The Coos Bay Region 1890-1944: Life on a Coastal Frontier . River West Books . Coos Bay, OR. . 1981 . 978-0-9607192-0-4 .
- Book: Hussey, John A. . Champoeg: Place of Transition . Oregon Historical Society . Portland, OR. . 1967 .
- Book: Jackson, Royal . Jennifer Lee . Harney County: An Historical Inventory . Harney County Planning Commission and Harney County Historical Society . Burns, OR. . 1978 .
- Book: Kittredge, William . William Kittredge . Owning It All . Graywolf Press . St. Paul, MN. . 1987 . 1-55597-366-3 .
- Book: Merriam, Lawrence C. Jr. . David G. Talbot . Oregon's Highway Park System 1921-1989: An Administrative History . Oregon Parks and Recreation Department . Salem, OR. . 1992 .
- Book: O'Callaghan, Jerry A. . The Dispossession of the Public Domain in Oregon . Government Printing Office . Washington, DC. . 1960 .
- Book: Ronda, James P. . Astoria and Empire . University of Nebraska Press . Lincoln, NE. . 1990 . 0-8032-3896-7 . registration .
- Book: Smith, Dwight A. . James B. Norman . James B. Norman . Pieter A. Dykman . Historic Highway Bridges of Oregon . Oregon Department of Transportation . Salem, OR. . 1985 . 0-87595-205-4 .
- Book: Straton, Kathryn A. . Oregon's Beaches: A Birthright Preserved . Oregon State Parks and Recreation Branch . Salem, OR. . 1977 .
- Book: Unruh, John D. Jr. . . University of Illinois Press . Urbana, IL. . 1979 . 0-252-00698-4 .
- Book: Vaughan, Thomas . High & Mighty: Select Sketches about the Deschutes Country . Oregon Historical Society . Portland, OR. . 1981 . 0-87595-103-1 . registration .
Portland
- Abbott, Carl. Portland in Three Centuries (Oregon State University Press, 2011)
- Abbott, Carl. "Regional city and network city: Portland and Seattle in the twentieth century." Western Historical Quarterly (1992): 293–322. online
- Gibson, Karen, and Carl Abbott. "Portland, Oregon." Cities 19.6 (2002): 425–436.
- Book: Lansing, Jewel. Jewel Lansing. Portland: People, Politics, and Power, 1851-2001. Oregon State University Press. 2003. 978-0-87071-559-4.
- Book: MacColl, E. Kimbark . The Growth of a City: Power and Politics in Portland, Oregon 1915 to 1950 . The Georgian Press Company . Portland, OR. . 1979 . 0-9603408-1-5 .
- Book: MacColl, E. Kimbark . The Shaping of a City: Business and Politics in Portland, Oregon 1885-1915 . The Georgian Press Company . Portland, OR. . 1976 .
- Book: MacColl, E. Kimbark . Harry H. Stein . Merchants, Money, and Power: The Portland Establishment 1843-1913 . The Georgian Press . Portland, OR. . 1988 . 0-9603408-3-1 . registration .
Columbia river
See also: Columbia River.
- Book: Clark, Robert . River of the West: Stories From the Columbia . Harper Collins West . New York, NY. . 1995 . 978-0-06-258516-5 .
- Book: Dietrich, William . Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River . Simon & Schuster . New York, NY. . 1995 . 0-295-97546-6 .
- Book: Donaldson, Ivan J. . Frederick K. Cramer . Fishwheels of the Columbia . Binfords & Mort, Publishers . Portland, OR. . 1971 . 0-8323-0007-1 .
- Book: Gronowski, Nancy H. . Jeanette Kloos . A Study of the Historic Columbia River Highway . Oregon Department of Transportation . Salem, OR. . 1987 .
- Book: Harden, Blaine . A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia . W. W. Norton & Company . New York, NY. . 1996 . 0-393-03936-6 .
- Book: Smith, Courtland . Salmon Fishers of the Columbia . Oregon State University Press . Corvallis, OR. . 1979 . 0-87071-313-2 .
- Book: Smith, Dwight A. . Columbia River Highway Historic District . Oregon Department of Transportation . Salem, OR. . 1984 .
- Book: Tollefson, Gene. . BPA & The Struggle for Power at Cost . Bonneville Power Administration . Portland, OR. . 1987 .
Ghost towns
Biographies
- Book: Barlow, Jeffrey . Christine Richardson . China Doctor of John Day . Binford and Mort Publisher. Portland, OR. . 1979 . 0-8323-0346-1 .
- Book: Beckham, Stephen Dow . The Simpsons of Shore Acres . Arago Books . Coos Bay, OR. . 1971 . 0-685-53206-2 .
- Book: Dodds, Gordon B. . The Salmon King of Oregon: R. D. Hume and the Pacific Fisheries . The University of North Carolina Press . Chapel Hill, NC. . 1959 .
- Book: Foster, Mark S. . Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West . University of Texas Press . Austin, TX . 1989 . 978-0-292-73045-8 .
- Book: Jeffrey, Julie Roy . Converting the West: A Biography of Narcissa Whitman . University of Oklahoma Press . Norman, OK. . 1991 . 0-8061-2359-1 .
- Book: Moynihan, Ruth Barnes . Rebel for Rights: Abigail Scott Duniway . Yale University Press . New Haven, CT. . 1983 . 0-300-02952-7 .
- Book: Munnick, Harriet Duncan . Priest's Progress: The Journey of Francis Norbert Blanchet from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific in Three Parishes . Binford & Mort Publishing . Portland, OR. . 1989 . 0-8323-0474-3 .
Memoirs, diaries and journals
- Book: Deady, Matthew P. . Pharisee Among Philistines: The Diary of Judge Matthew P. Deady 1871-92. 2 vols. . Malcolm Clark, Jr. . Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR. . 1975 .
- Book: Greenhow, Robert . Memoir, Historical and Political, on the Northwest Coast of North America . Blair and Rives . Washington, DC. . 1840 .
- Book: Palmer, Joel . Journal of Travels Over the Rocky Mountains . J.A. & U.P. James . Cincinnati, OH. . 1847 .
- Book: Parker, Samuel . Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains . Ithaca, NY. . 1838 .
- Book: Thompson, Erwin N. . Shallow Grave at Waiilatpu: The Sagers' West . Oregon Historical Society . Portland, OR. . 1969 . 0-87595-024-8 .
- Book: Townsend, John Kirk . Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River . Henry Perkins . Philadelphia . 1839 .
Political histories
- Book: Bourke, Paul . Donald DeBats . Washington County: Politics and Community in Antebellum America . Johns Hopkins University Press . Baltimore, MD. . 1995 . 0-8018-5946-8 . registration .
- Burton, Robert E. "The New Deal in Oregon," in John Braeman et al. eds. The New Deal: Volume Two - the State and Local Levels (1975) pp 355–75
- Book: Brown, J. Henry . Brown's Political History of Oregon: Provisional Government . Lewis & Dryden Printing Co. . Portland, OR. . 1892 .
- Etulain, Richard W. (2013). Lincoln and Oregon Country Politics in the Civil War. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press.
- Book: Walth, Brent . Fire at Eden's Gate: Tom McCall and the Oregon Story . Oregon Historical Society Press . Portland, OR. . 1994 . 0-87595-247-X .
Culture
- Book: Bingham, Edwin R. . Pacific Northwest Writing: Reaching for Regional Identity. Regionalism and the Pacific Northwest . William G. Robbins . Robert Frank . Richard Ross . Oregon State University Press . Corvallis, OR. . 1993 .
- Book: Dodds, Gordon B. . Varieties of Hope: An Anthology of Oregon Prose . Oregon State University Press . Corvallis, OR. . 1993 . 978-0-87071-374-3 .
- Book: Turnbull, George S. . History of Oregon Newspapers . Binfords & Mort, Publishers . Portland, OR. . 1939 .
Social history
- Book: Booth, Brian . Wildmen, Wobblies, and Whistle Punks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest . Oregon State University Press . Corvallis, OR. . 1992 . 0-87071-383-3 .
- Book: Edson, Christopher J. . Chinese in Eastern Oregon 1860-1890 . R. and E. Research Association . San Francisco, CA. . 1974 . 0-88247-238-0 .
- Book: Lowenstein, Steven . The Jews of Oregon 1850-1950 . Jewish Historical Society of Oregon . Portland, OR. . 1987 . 0-9619786-0-0 .
- Book: Mclagan, Elizabeth . A Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940. . registration . 22 January 2024. . 2022 . 9780870712210 . 2nd . Corvallis, OR . 1341845615. English.
- Book: Nakata, Deena K. . The Gift: The Oregon Nikkei Story Retold . Deena K. Nakata . Portland, OR . 1995 .
- Book: Ward, Jean M. . Elaine A. Maveety . Pacific Northwest Women 1815-1925: Lives, Memories, and Writings . Oregon State University Press . Corvallis, OR . 1995 . 0-87071-387-6 .
Geology
- Book: Bishop, Ellen Morris . In Search of Ancient Oregon: A Geological and Natural History . Timber Press . Portland, OR . 2006 . 0-88192-789-9 .
- Book: Wagner, Parke D. Jr. . Snavely, Holly C. . Tertiary Geologic History of Western Oregon & Washington . State of Washington . 1963 .
- Book: Williams, Ira A. . Geologic History of the Columbia River Gorge, As Interpreted from the Historic Columbia River Scenic Highway . Oregon Historical Society Press . Portland, OR . 1991 . 0-87595-223-2 .
Journals
Bibliographies
Websites
- Oregon Encyclopedia, a peer-reviewed project of the Portland State University history department and others
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Oregon Blue Book - Bibliography . State of Oregon . 2011-12-20.