A collection of individual and family histories including diaries, journals, personal life stories,
news articles, and genealogical information about residents of Harney County, past and present.

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Sahlberg, George
Saunders, Harold
Sayles, Beth (Hughet)- 

• "Memories from 50 years, 1948-1998, Burns H.S."

Scharff, John C.
Schwender, Olga M.- 

• "A Long Journey"

Scoubes, Henry
Sessler/Idhe/Bennett family
Settlemeyer, Robert
Shepard, Alice (Duhaime)
Shepard, Cora
Sheppard, William G.
Shingledecker, Owen L.
Shirk, David Lawson- 

• "Life and Adventures of David Lawson Shirk"

Short Family
Shull, Andrew
Simkins, Horatio “Rash”
Simmons Family
Sitz, Eldon
Sitz, Glen-

• "Sitz Ranch 100-year Celebration, 2006"
• "Sitz Family History"

Sizemore, Linsy- 

• "Memories of Pioneer Boyhood"

Skiens, Tobe- 

• "Tobe Skeins alias Flint Sprage"

Skeins, William Poleman
Slate, Joseph
Slater, Henry L. & Genevieve
Smith, Harry C.
Smith, Neil T.
Smith, Robert F. "Bob"
Smith, Russell
Smith, Sylvester “Coon”
Smyth, Corey & Minnie
Smyth, Darius "Rye"
Smyth, Fred
Smyth, George Comegys
Smyth, Johnie ”Cactus”
Spatz, Emerson and Alta- see Woodruff & Spatz families
(Springer) Marshall, Viola-

• "Harney Valley Bound, The Diary of Miss Viola Springer from Princeton, Missouri, May 18, 1885 to Harney Valley, Oregon, November 26, 1885"

Stallard Family
Stancliff, George M
Stanton, John V
Stauffer, Charles W.-

• "Homesteading the High Desert; Oregon's Lost Creek Valley, 1910-1920"

Stenger, Peter
Stevens, Thomas
Stoner, Robert
Stott, Doug
Sullivan, Jesse James and Family
Swain, Albert H.-

• "The Families of Albert Henry Swain & Nellie Margaret Thimmes"​

Sweek, Cyrus A.

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Talley, Clinton O.
Tanaka, Gus & Teddy
Tanner, V.M.
Telford, Harry C.
Terrill, Byron
Theimer, William F.
Thompson, David
Thompson, Grant
Thornburg, Cary & Rose (Parker)
Tiller Families
Timms, Eugene
Triston, Frank
Timms, Gene
Tulloch, Donald M.
Turner, Dallas

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Urizar Family

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Van Houten, Louise
Varien Family
Vawter, John & Family
Venator Family
Venzke, Albert
Vickers Family
Voegtly, Charles H.
Vollmer, August C.
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Waldo, John Breckenridge-

• "Diaries and Letters from the High Cascades of Oregon, 1880-1907"

Walker, Charles
Wallace, Vivian
Wallen, Capt. H.D.- 

• “Reports of 4th Infantry; June - November 1859”

Walter, Raymond W. "Red" and Naomi
Washburn, Catherine-

• "Journal of Catherine Amanda Stansbury Washburn, Iowa to Oregon, 1853"

Waters, A.W.
Waters, Walt
Watts, Alexander
Weare, Dr. Cliff
Weatherly, James Albert
Weittenhiller, P.S. and Clyde families
Welcome, Jacob Charles
Welcome, Wallace & Dera
Weston, Jim & Mike-

• "Journals of James Weston, 1974-1990"

Wharton, Marvin
Whiting Family
Whitman, Marcus
Wilber Family
Wilbur, James H. 
Wiley, William T.
Williams, Jessie
Williams, Captain L.L.- 

• "Report of the Adjutant General of Oregon, 1865-1866"

Williams, Robert J.
Williams, Thomas- 

• "The Thomas Williams Story"

Winnemucca, Sarah
​Withers Family
Witzel, Del ​
​​Wohlfrom, Alice (Hurlburt)
Woldenberg, Florence
Wood, C.E.S.
Woodruff & Spatz families
Woodworth, James-

• "Diary of James Woodworth; Missouri to California via Humboldt River, Nevada, 1853"

Wynn, George- 

• "My Time on Planet Harney, 1989-2006"

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Young, Clarence N.

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​Zabala, Pedro sr
Zoglmann, Gus

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