In 1843, brothers Jesse, Lindsay, and Charley Applegate-accompanied by their wives and twenty-two children-led the first major wagon train from Missouri to Oregon. By the end of the decade, the restless clan had left the "crowded" Willamette Valley and pointed their wagons toward Yoncalla in southern Oregon's Umpqua Valley. There, Charley built an immense two-story frame home-with one side for ...

Manufacturer: Oregon State University Press
Written By: Shannon Applegate

In this first comprehensive account of the 19th-century exploration and survey of the northern Cascades, Fred Beckey presents a wide range of materials from dozens of archives across the United States, Canada, and beyond: voyagers' logs, trappers' yarns, agency and government documents, official surveys, tall tales, climbers' journals, and sober histories. The voices, most of them from ...

Manufacturer: Oregon Historical Society Press
Written By: Fred Beckey

Manufacturer: Ye Galleon Pr
Written By: Laura E. Wilkes, Carol A. Thilenius

Manufacturer: Oregon Historical Society Pr
Written By: John F. Kilkenny

In his 1836 account Washington Irving immortalized Astoria, but it has been a footnote to the history of western expansion—a doleful reminder of John Jacob Astor's failed attempt to establish a fur-trading empire at the mouth of the Columbia from 1810 to 1813. Now James P. Ronda makes clear the importance of the Astoria venture in large and complex struggle for national sovereignty in the ...

Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
Written By: James P. Ronda

Manufacturer: Willamette Valley Genealogical Society
Written By: Susan N Bell

Manufacturer: Willamette Valley Genealogical Society
Written By: Ann Lossner

Manufacturer: B. Alderman
Written By: Bonnie Alderman

Manufacturer: D.L. Senff-Mata
Written By: Donna L Senff-Mata

Manufacturer: M. McClune
Written By: Mary McClune