Tall Tales from Rogue River: Yarns of Hathaway Jones
Indiana University Press, August 1974. Hardcover.
Indiana University Press, August 1974. Hardcover.
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, January 2015. Trade Paperback. Oswald West, Oregon's rascally one-term governor, wrote historic legislation in 1913 that set aside Oregon's beaches as Oregon's first coast highway. By 1919, building began in earnest and moved the highway east of the beaches and punched it through four hundred miles.....
Ephemera.
Trade Paperback.
Binfords & Mort, January 1962. Hardcover. Memoirs of a cattle rancher.
[n.p.], 1936. Trade Paperback. 84 pages. Poetry about Oregon. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Former owner's name on title page.
Penguin (Non-Classics), February 1995. Trade Paperback. Long before environmental consciousness became popular, a young nature writer named Opal Whiteley captured America's heart. Opal's childhood diary, published in 1920, became an immediate bestseller, one of the most talked-about books of its time. Wistful, funny, and wise, it was described by an.....
University of Nebraska Press, February 1993. Trade Paperback. In his 1836 account Washington Irving immortalized Astoria, but it has been a footnote to the history of western expansion--a doleful reminder of John Jacob Astor's failed attempt to establish a fur-trading empire at the mouth of the Columbia from 1810 to.....
Robert J. Hendricks, 1937. Trade Paperback. 52 pages.
Independent Order of Odd-Fellows. Printed by W. A. Wheeler, 1915. Trade Paperback.
Independent Order of Odd-Fellows. Woodburn Independent Power Press, 1910. Trade Paperback.
Arcadia Publishing, July 2011. Trade Paperback.
Portland Post Card Company (Press of the Irwin-Hodson Company), 1907. First Edition. Pamphlet. 8 by 5-1/2 inches (oblong). Title page plus 30 unnumbered leaves of plates from black-and-white photographs (partly captioned). An attractive pictorial souvenir for this annual Portland celebration. Uncommon, with few holdings in OCLC. First edition (first printing).....
(Friends of the Library, University of Oregon), 1972. Pamphlet. 3 pages, plus broadside laid in. A short essay with a facsimile of a humorous bit of early Oregon printing.
Sylph Maid Books, October 2014. Trade Paperback. In Overstory: Zero Robert Leo Heilman portrays the working class life of loggers, miners, roofers, millworkers and tree planters in rural Oregon. This revised and expanded collection of his critically acclaimed award-winning essays and memoirs examines the complex relationships between work, nature, community.....
Rainy Day Pr, April 1981. Trade Paperback.
Silver King Mining Co., 1920. Pamphlet. 8 page pamphlet. 3-3/8 by 6-1/4 inches. Investment prospectus for a silver and lead mining operation located in eastern Marion County, Oregon, about 75 miles from Portland. OCLC records one copy, at Yale. Fine or nearly so in stapled wrappers with a bit of.....
1910. Photograph. Three photographs (one duplicate) laid down on canvas (as issued?). Roughly 9-1/4 by 7-1/4 inches. The two views are taken from opposite sides of a small inlet. The mining operation consists of a water-powered conveyor leading to two spinning drums. Water is pumped out of the drum enclosures.....
Oregon State University Press, 1968. First Edition. Pamphlet. 16 pages. Tales of ships in Oregon. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Oregon State College, 1948. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 86 pages. The author of this monograph looks at the early writings of Oregon pioneers in books, magazines, newspapers, verse, diaries, and journals. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). One small closed tear on front cover...
Binfords & Mort, Publishers, January 1951. Hardcover.
Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, 1979. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 192 pages. A biographical sketch of Sheldon - educator, philosopher, cultural historian and administator at the University of Oregon. Selected letters help fill out aspects of his personal and professional life. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Occasional Paper #13 of Center.....
Pine Cone Publishers, 1977. Hardcover.
Oregon Historical Society Pr, June 1977. Trade Paperback. The story of the construction of Fort Simcoe, a Washington military post established to protect and control the region's Indian population.