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A collection of historical small booklets and pamphlets. These publications are not indexed in the main library catalog system.
​Listed alphabetically by author.
A
  • Abraham, Dorothy,  “ROMANTIC VANCOUVER ISLAND VICTORIA YESTERDAY AND TODAY”  pub 1964, signed
  • Adams, Mildretta,  “HISTORIC SILVER CITY”, The Story of the Owyhees, pub 1960, signed, (McEwen)
  • Addenbrooke, Alice Baltzelle, “THE ENCHANTED FORT” pub 1968
  • Adkison, Norman B.,  “INDIAN BRAVES AND BATTLES WITH MORE NEZ PERCE LORE” pub 1967,
  • Adkison, Norman B., “NEZ PERCE INDIAN WAR AND ORIGINAL STORIES” pub 1966
  • Alexander, Ken,   “SUMPTER, OREGON A HISTORY OF THE RISE AND DECLINE OF A GOLDEN EMPIRE” pub no date
  • Allen, Lorene, “I THOUGHT I HEARD THE CLOUDS TALKING” pub 1990
  • Allen, Lorene, “JOHN DAY, A BRIEF HISTORY,” pub 2004
  • Allen, Lorene and Jessie McKay, “THE GREENHORN YEARS” pub 1989
  •  Allen, Lorene and Donaldson, George, “TRAILS”  pub 1990
  • Allen, Lorene and Dunten, Loren, “HARNEY COUNTY BUCKAROO” pub 1991
  • Amundson, Carroll John, “HISTORY OF THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY AND CASCADE MOUNTAIN WAGON ROAD COMPANY” pub 1928
  • “ARIZONA HIGHWAYS, SPECIAL ALL COWBOY ISSUE”, pub 1980
  • Arment, Horace L., “INDIAN ARTIFACTS OF THE UPPER GREAT BASIN” pub
  • Ausmus, John- PO 8 TREE, pub. 1992, Songcrafters, pbk, 24 pgs
B
  • Bagley, Clarence B., “THE ACQUISITION AND PIONEERING OF OLD OREGON” pub 1924
  • Bailey, Robert G., “RIVER OF NO RETURN, A Century of Central Idaho and Eastern Washington History and Development, Together with the Wars, Customs, Myths, and Legends of the Nez Perce Indians”, pub. 1947
  • Baker City, “BAKER CITY CENTENNIAL ALBUM” pub 1974
  • Baker City,  “HISTORIC HOMES OF BAKER CITY” pub
  •  Bakken, Lavola J., “LAND OF THE NORTH UMPQUAS”  pub 1973
  • Barber, Ted,  “THE BARNSTORMING MUSTANGER”  pub 1986
  • Barry, Patricia, “IN SEARCH OF CAPTAIN WARNER” pub 1987
  • Bartlett, Grace, "THE WALLOWA COUNTRY 1867-1877" pub. 1976
  • Beckham, Stephen Dow – IDENTIFYING AND ASSESSING HISTORICAL CULTURAL RESOURCES IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST; Studies in Cultural Resource Management No. 2, pub. 1978, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, 98 pgs, (Wilda Toussaint)
  • Beckham, Stephen Dow, “LONELY OUTPOST: THE ARMY’S FORT UMPQUA” pub 1969
  • Beckham, Stephen Dow, “THE OREGON CENTRAL MILITARY WAGON ROAD” A HISTORY AND RECONNAISSANCE”pub1981
  • Bidwell, General John, “ECHOES OF THE PAST” pub 1914
  • Biggs, John W. and Rand, Helen Biggs – “RECOLLECTIONS OF BURNS, OREGON” pub ?
  • Blinn, Mayme Schwartz & Blinn, Richard Joseph, “UPPER JOHN DAY RIVER, EARLY DAYS IN PRAIRIE CITY” pub 1977
  • Blinn, Richard Joseph, see Blinn, Mayme
  • Boller, Henry A., see Mattison, Ray H.
  • Bones, Thomas J. – ATLAS OF FOSSIL FRUITS AND SEEDS FROM NORTH CENTRAL OREGON, pub. 1979, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, 24 pgs, (Wilda Toussaint)
  • Booth, Percy, “THE LEGEND OF INDIAN MARY AND UMPQUA JOE” pub 1975
  • Booth, Percy T., “VALLEY OF THE ROGUES” pub 1970
  • Bourne, E. G., “THE WHITMAN MYTH” pub no date
  • Braly, David,  “ANATOMY OF TWO MURDERS"
  • Braly, David,  “A NIGHT OF MURDERS”
  • Braly, David, “EARLY DAYS IN EASTERN AND CENTRAL OREGON” pub 1976
  • Braly, David, “CATTLE BARONS OF EARLY OREGON”, pub 1978 lst edition
  • Braly, David, “INDIANS IN EARLY DAY OREGON”  pub 1980
  • Braly, David, “TALES FROM THE OREGON OUTBACK” pub 1978 lst edition
  • Broman, Mickey, “ NEVADA GHOST TOWN TRAILS”
  • Broughton, Lieutenant W.R.  “EXPLORATION OF THE COMUMBIA RIVER” Oct. 1792
  • Burk, James D. “TRIAL BRIEF”
  • Burns Union High School- TAM-O’SHANTER, pub. 1980, pbk, 56 pgs,
C
  • Calavan – LAWS FEUD 1880
  • Cannon, Miles, “WAIILATPU, ITS RISE AND FALL, a story of missionary days in the Pacific Northwest 1836-1847”pub 1915
  • Carrey, John, see SHEEPEATER INDIAN CAMPAIGN  filed in ‘S’
  • Carroll, John M., “CUSTER’S CAVALRY OCCUPATION OF HEMSTEAD & AUSTIN, TEXAS and THE HISTORY OF CUSTER’S HEADQUARTERS BUILDING” pub 1983
  • Castagna, Vanessa, “J.C. PENNEY COMPANY, INC.” pub 2002
  • Chase, Don M., “A ROAD PAST HIS DOOR” pub 1973
  • Chenoweth, J. V.,  “DOUGLAS COUNTY’S GOLDEN AGE” pub 1972 signed
  • Christmas Valley Chamber of Commerce, “SPACE AND DISTANCE” pub 1988
  • Christmas Valley Women’s Club, “WHERE THE PAVEMENT ENDS” pub 1968
  • Clark, Donna D. “OUTLAW JIM TAYLOR, SHERIFF LAMB’S NEMESIS”  see Hanley, Mike, “TRAILS AND RAILS
  • Clark, Lettice,  “MILLICAN”, see Hudell, Doris
  • Cody, Edmund R., “HISTORY OF THE COEUR D’ALENE MISSION OF THE SACRED HEART” pub 1930
  • Colcleaser, Donald E. “BOTTLES OF BYGNE DAYS” pub 1966
  • Collier, Inez Baltzor, “ON THIS SIDE OF JORDAN” pub 1981
  • Comber, Monica McCormick,  see Brown, Allie Denney
  • Cooper, Myrtle E., “FROM TENT TOWN TO CITY, A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF BILLINGS, MONTANA 1882-1935”, pub 1981 signed
  • Cornutt, John M.,  “COW CREEK VALLEY MEMORIES, The Early Settlers of Riddle, Oregon” pub 1971
  • Crane Students, “STORIES, LEGENDS & MYTHS OF HARNEY COUNTY” n.p.d.
  • Cressman, L.S., “PETROGLYPHS OF OREGON”, pub 1937
  • Cressman, L. S.,  “THE SANDAL AND THE CAVE, THE INDIANS OF OREGON” pub 1964
  • Crook County Historical Society, “ECHOES FROM OLD CROOK COUNTY” pub 1991
  • Crook County Historical Society, “Following the Lost Meek Trail in Central Oregon, A Historical Tour”, pub. 2008
  • Crook County Historical Society, “LIEUTENANT WATSON MEETS PAULINA” pub 1992
  • Crook County Journal, pub. 1901
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D
  • Davidson, Dick, “UNION PACIFIC BUILDING AMERICA” pub 2002
  • Dee, Henry Drummond, edited by, “THE JOURNAL OF JOHN WORK” pub 1945
  • Delaney, Matilda J. Sager, “THE WHITMAN MASSACRE”      pub 1920,  reprint 1966
  • Densley, Lillian Cummings, “SAINTS, SINNERS AND SNAKE RIVER SECRETS” pub1987
  • Department of Interior, “BRIEF ACCOUNT OF LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION” pub 1905
  • Devin, Ira H., "THE FLORA COUNTRY; THE HARDSHIPS AND STRUGGLES OF THE MATT DEVIN FAMILY AS PIONEERS IN NORTHERN WALLOWA COUNTY, OREGON" pub. 1971
  • “DIETZ SITE, THE; Investigations of the Clovis People”, pub. ?
  • Donaldson, George, See Allen, Lorene
  • Donegan, James J., “HISTORICAL SKETCH OF HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON” pub 1937
  • Double OO – See Hill, Wayne R.
  • Douglas, Jesse Steiwer, “THE HISTORY OF JEFFERSON, MARION COUNTY, OREGON” pub 1931
  • Drew, Harry J., “EARLY TRANSPORTATION ON KLAMATH WATERWAYS” pub no date
  • Duke, Vettelene Williams, “THE SOUTH FORK VALLEY AND OTHER STORIES” pub 1939
  • Dunten, Loren, see Allen, Lorene
  • Dutcher, Ida, “OUR HOMESTEAD IN THE CANYON”  Malheur County, pub 1970
  • Dye, Eva Emery, “THE HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY REGIME IN THE OREGON COUNTRY”, pub 1898  (See in file ‘Y’ under Young, F. G. )
​E
  • Edwards, Dottie C., “TALES OF YESTERDAY IN MALHEUR COUNTY” pub 1969
  • Eggleston, Valeria Hirschler, “A HISTORY OF THE PIONEER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF BURNS, HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON” pub 1996
  • Eels, Myron, “CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF OREGON, AND WASHINGTON TERRITORY; THE HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF OREGON AND ADJOINING TERRITORIES; AND THE NORTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION OF CONGREGATIONAL MINISTERS”  pub 1881
  • Eels, Myron, “THE WHITMAN LEGEND, A reply to Professor Bourne” pub 1902
  • Eiguren, Joe  V.  “HISTORY  & ORIGIN OF THE BASQUE”  pub 1964
  • Ellison, Robert S., “FORT BRIDGER WYOMING A BRIEF HISTORY” pub 1931
  • Ermatinger, Edward, “YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1827-1828” pub 1912
  • Evans, Ruth H. – “CENTENNIAL PIONEER FAMILIES OF BAKER COUNTY” pub
  • “EVERGREEN, AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE PRESIDENT’S PROPOSAL” pub. 1993
F
  • Fagergren, Fred,  “CAMPFIRE TALES OF JACKSON HOLE” pub. 1963
  • Farnham, Thomas J., “AN 1839 WAGON TRAIN JOURNAL” pub 1977
  • Fine, Baldwin Frank Myers, “KOREA”  pub 2005
  • First National Bank, “75 DRAMATIC YEARS IN OREGON”, pub 1940
  • Fisher, Jim, “GILCHRIST THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS” pub 1988
  • Fitch, Robert L., “SILVER LAKE THE WAY IT WAS” pub 1991
  • Fitzgerald, Maurice, “HARNEY COUNTY ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT & DEVELOPMENT” pub 1940
  • Forbes, P. L., “EXPERIENCES OF POOR SI” pub no date
  • Fowler, Ron – ICE COLD SODA POP 5Ë: An Illustrated History of Oregon Soda Pop Bottling, pub. 1981, Ron Fowler, pb, 78 pgs, indexed, (Library-10.00)
  • Fox, Theron, “NEVADA TREASURE HUNTERS GHOST TOWN GUIDE” pub 1961
  • Freeman, Olga Samuelson, “EARLYY OREGON CHURCHES”, pub 1976
​G
  • Garate, Donald T., “ECHANDIA THE UNIQUE STORY OF A BASQUE IMMIGRANT” pub 1980
  • Garaatea, Paquita Lucia, “BASQUE WOMEN BOARDING HOUSES”, pub 1990
  • Garrison, Joseph M.  see Palmer, Joel
  • Genzoli, Andrew; Martin, Wallace E., “REDWOOD BONANZA” pub 1967
  • Genzoli, Andrew; Martin, Wallace E.,  “REDWOOD CAVALCADE” pub. 1968
  • Genzoli, Andrew; Martin, Wallace E.,  “REDWOOD PIONEER” pub 1972   
  • Gibson, Benson, “SURVIVORS OF THE BANNOCK WAR” pub no date
  • Gillette, Martha Hill, “OVERLAND TO OREGON and IN THE INDIAN WARS OF 1853”, pub 1975
  • Gordon, Kenneth, “THE NATURAL AREAS OF OREGON”, pub 1953
  • Grant County, “GRANT COUNTY IN THE BEGINNING” pub no date
  • Grant, Blanche C., edited by, “KIT CARSON’S OWN STORY OF HIS LIFE”  as dictated to Col. and Mrs. D. C. Peters about 1856-57, and never before published.  Pub 1926
  • Gray, Edward, “LOST WAGON TRAIN 1853” pub no date
  • Gregg, Kate L., edited by, “WESTWARD WITH DRAGOONS, The Journal of William Clark on his expedition to establish Fort Osage, August 25 to September 22, 1808” pub 1937
  • Griffin, Dorsey,    “OIL IN HARNEY COUNTY”,
  • Halverson, Katherine A. “ANNALS OF WYOMING,” pub. 1980
H
  • Hagen, William T., “THE INDIAN IN AMERICAN HISTORY”, pub. 1971 by American Historical Assoc. AHA Pamphlets 240
  • Hanley, Mike, “TRAILS AND RAILS,  pub 1984
  • Harney County, “A LIVELY LITTLE HISTORY OF HARNEY COUNTY” A Centennial Souvenir Album 1889-1989
  • Harris, Frank, “MY REMINISCENCES AS A COWBOY” pub 1930
  • Hawley, Brooks & Kathan, Melvin L., “GOLD IN SUMPTER VALLEY” pub 1968
  • Hawley, Brooks & Kathan, Melvin L., “A GOLD DREDGE IN SUMPTER VALLEY” pub 1976
  • Hayse, Bruce, “UNOBSERVED HORIZONS, UNTRAVELLED TRAILS, HIKING THE OREGON HIGH DESERT” pub 1979
  • Hiatt, Isaac, “THIRTY-ONE YEARS IN BAKER COUNTY, A history of the county from 1861-1893” pub 1893”
  • Hieb, David L., “FORT LARAMIE” pub 1954
  • High Desert Journal, Spring 2008 Issue 7 – pub. 2008
  •  High Desert Museum, “BUCKAROO!, The Hispanic Heritage of the High Desert” pub 2004
  •  High Desert Museum, “WANDERING WAGONS MEEK’S LOST EMIGRANTS OF 1845” pub 1993
  • Hill, J. L., “THE END OF THE CATTLE TRAIL” pub no date
  • Hill, Wayne – “DOUBLE OO RANCH” pub 1978
  • Hines Lumber Co. – see Walker Charles I.
  • Hoebel, E. Adamson, “THE HEYENNES, INDIANS OF THE GREAT PLAINS”, pub. 1960 by Stanford University
  • Hoffman, Charles S. & Webber, Bert, “THE SEARCH FOR OREGON’S LOST BLUE BUCKET MINE, The Sephen Meek Wagon Train of 1845” pub 1992
  • Holmer, Richard N., see Lohse, E. S.
  •  Hopkins, S. W., “LIFE AMONG THE PIUTES”  pub facsimile 1969
  • Houston, Elanor Jordan, “DEATH VALLEY SCOTTY told me” pub 1954
  • Howard, Major General Oliver Otis, “GENERAL HOWARD’S OWN STORY” pub 2000
  •  Huddell, Doris and Lund, Lora Lee, “LETTICE MILLICAN CLARK A PIONEER WOMAN”  pub 1993
  • Hudson, Wretha, “ BAKER COUNTY WITH SHEEP ON A THOUSAND HILLS” pub no date, signed
  • Hunter, Wally, “THE BOHEMIA STORY” pub 1969
  • Hyde, Dayton O., “THE BRAND OF A BOY” pub
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