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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Skookum
In 1843, brothers Jesse, Lindsay, and Charley Applegate — accompanied by their wives and 22 children — led the first major wagon train from Missouri...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
Happy Valley
A stylishly written novel of pioneer life in Harney County, Oregon.
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...
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...
The Viewless Winds
This dark, fascinating novel is based on the unsolved murder of a union leader's wife in Aberdeen, Washington.
The Land Is Bright
The engrossing story of a wagon train crossing to the Northwest, experienced through the eyes of a young woman.
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...
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...