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Honey in the Horn
Set in Oregon in the early years of the twentieth century, H. L. Davis’s Honey in the Horn chronicles the struggles faced by homesteaders as...
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Holdfast
Winner of the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award Naturalist and philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore meditates on connection and separation in these twenty-one elegant, probing essays...
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Voyage of a Summer Sun
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award and the Oregon Book Award An Oregon State Library choice for “150 Books for the Oregon...
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Children of the Fur Trade
A riveting glimpse into a unique heritage, Children of the Fur Trade recovers a vital part of Northwest history. During the first half of the...
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The Prairie Keepers
In the remote northeast corner of Oregon lies the ruggedly beautiful Zumwalt Prairie, one of the last native prairies in the United States. A wild...
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Down in My Heart
From 1942 to 1946, William Stafford was interned in camps for conscientious objectors after refusing to be inducted into the U.S. Army. As a pacifist...
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A Majority of Scoundrels
With the skill of a historian, Don Berry set his celebrated trilogy of novels—Trask, Moontrap, and To Build a Ship—in pioneer-era Oregon. In A Majority...
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Skookum
In 1843, brothers Jesse, Lindsay, and Charley Applegate — accompanied by their wives and 22 children — led the first major wagon train from Missouri...
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The Sandal and the Cave
Luther Cressman's 1938 discovery of a 9,000-year-old sandal in Fort Rock Cave revolutionized accepted theories of western prehistory. The recovery of the woven sagebrush-bark sandal...
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To Build a Ship
In To Build a Ship, Don Berry explores the extent to which a man can betray himself and his morality for a dream or an...
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Illahee
Illahe tells the captivating story of the miners, packers, farmers, and families who settled southern Oregon's rugged Rogue River Canyon in the 1860s. Kay Atwood...
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River Pigs and Cayuses
Ron Strickland’s oral histories recover a part of the original Northwest character that is rapidly disappearing. In River Pigs and Cayuses, he gathers stories from...
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Whistlepunks and Geoducks
Dusting off his tape recorder for this companion volume to his popular River Pigs and Cayuses, Ron Strickland focuses on Washington, his adopted home. In...
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Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813
Four years after Lewis and Clark stimulated American interest in the far western reaches of the continent, John Jacob Astor, a New York businessman, dispatched...
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Reach of Tide, Ring of History
Aboard a small handmade boat, Sam McKinney set out to rediscover the Columbia River of his youth. The story of his voyage offers an intimate...
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Sandy
On a wilderness ranch in southern Oregon nearly a century ago, Dayton Hyde dove into a rushing river to rescue the threatened nest of a...
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Driftwood Valley
Driftwood Valley recounts a magnificent story of adventure and survival in the wilds of northern British Columbia. For almost three years, naturalist Theodora Stanwell-Fletcher, together...
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Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River
Selected by National Geographic Adventure magazine as one of the "100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time" The Narrative chronicles a journey of discovery by...
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The Wallowas
Part adventure story and part spiritual memoir, William Ashworth's The Wallowas recounts a young man's search for the challenges and the solace that the wilderness...
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Requiem for a People
Stephen Dow Beckham's classic history of southwestern Oregon's Rogue River Indian wars is the only complete record of the region's Native Americans and the destruction...
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Frontier Doctor
In January 1905 Urling C. Coe moved to the new town of Bend, Oregon, to become the first licensed doctor in what he called "the...
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Yamsi
Yamsi, a 6000-acre working cattle ranch at the headwaters of the Williamson River in Oregon's Klamath Basin is the setting for Dayton Hyde's lively meditation...
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On the Highest Hill
The complex story of a shy young man whose life and fate are ruled by his love for a woman and a place — the...
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A Homesteader's Portfolio
The passing of the Enlarged Homestead Act in 1909 brought tens of thousands of Americans to the arid West. Attracted by the promise of free...
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Timber
The story of a friendship between two men and a woman they both love, set in the Northwest woods during the heyday of steam logging.
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Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistle Punks
Stewart Holbrook — high-school dropout, logger, journalist, storyteller, and historian — was one of the best-loved figures in the Pacific Northwest during the two decades...
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Beyond the Garden Gate
A classic story of a young man's coming of age, set in Eugene and the Willamette Valley in the early part of this century.
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Happy Valley
A stylishly written novel of pioneer life in Harney County, Oregon.
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Tall Tales from Rogue River
The tall tales of a colorful man who was proud of his reputation as the biggest liar in the country. Hathaway Jones (1870-1937) was a...
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Nehalem Tillamook Tales
(Told by Clara Pearson, recorded by Elizabeth Derr Jacobs, and edited by Melville Jacobs.) A collection of 60 lively, entertaining, and memorable Native American stories...
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The Viewless Winds
This dark, fascinating novel is based on the unsolved murder of a union leader's wife in Aberdeen, Washington.
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The Land Is Bright
The engrossing story of a wagon train crossing to the Northwest, experienced through the eyes of a young woman.
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Botanical Exploration of the Trans-Mississippi West
A classic and fascinating history of botanical explorers in the West, ranging from the well known — such as Lewis and Clark, Menzies, and Douglas...
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Oregon Detour
Oregon Detour was first published in 1930, the first novel of a young Northwest journalist who became one of the region's best-known writers. Its new...