150 Years Of Eastern Oregon History
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Author | : Joseph H. Labadie |
Publisher | : Dog Ear Publishing |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2017-01-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 145754895X |
This book is a real story about an ordinary family from Albia, Iowa, who in 1862 crossed the Oregon Trail and settled in the lower Powder River Valley in what today is Baker City, Oregon. Within two years, family members were part of a thriving dry-goods and mercantile business in the gold-mining town of Mormon Basin, selling rubber boots, shovels, and liquor to both American and Chinese miners. By the late 1860s, the easy gold had been panned and sluiced out so the miners moved on to chase bigger dreams in newer places. So too did some of the family members; they sold their business interests and with a saddlebag full of gold rode north to Umatilla County, Oregon, where in 1871 they started a ranch and cattle business. Portions of James Shumway’s Couse Creek Ranch near Milton-Freewater are still owned by descendants; it is an Oregon State Centennial Ranch. This book uses old photographs, letters, documents, business journals, personal diaries, and contemporary research to recount 150 years of Barton–Shumway family history in eastern Oregon. It is a story told through the lives of some of the real people who survived it.
Author | : Eastern Oregon Visitors Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 2005* |
Genre | : Oregon, Eastern |
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Author | : Harvey Whitefield Scott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Frontier and pioneer life |
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Author | : Charles Henry Carey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1034 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Oregon |
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Author | : Samuel Asahel Clarke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Oregon Territory |
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Author | : Bob H. Reinhardt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780870719929 |
A history or Oregon's North Santiam Canyon, from interaction between Native and non-Native peoples and railroad development and land fraud in the nineteenth century, to changing fortunes in the timber industry and questions about economic and environmental sustainability into the twenty-first century.
Author | : John B. Horner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Wayne Kee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : |
Genre | : Oregon, Eastern |
ISBN | : 9780971465312 |
Author | : William F. Willingham |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Prior to the early 1870s, Oregon's Long Creek Valley was an isolated oasis of bunch grass and wildlife surrounded by rugged, heavily timbered mountains. Among the valley's first white settlers, lured by the abundance of grass and water, were William F. Willingham's great-grandparents. During summer visits as a child, he listened to his elderly relatives' stories about growing up on the frontier. In Starting Over, the author draws on a range of sources to bring to life the people who scratched out a community based on cattle and sheep raising, kinship ties, and shared social values. Willingham shows how the development of Long Creek illuminates key aspects of the story of the last phase of the settling of the American frontier.
Author | : Wayne Kee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Local author |
ISBN | : 9780971465305 |