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History: Total Loss

North Medford High gym suffers catastrophic damage after Tuesday roof collapse; district says structure will be demolished and rebuilt.  The…

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The Final Days of Medco

Two pages of articles on the closing of Medco:  Medico Mill's death means higher prices for building supplies explains how the price of…

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Furniture Co. leases Store on West Main

Swenson and Peebler Furniture Company of Ashland moves to Medford with employees and entire stock of household Goods.  The building will be…

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A Rich History

Phoenix Pioneer Cemetery marks 150 years and a new metal archway marking the entrance.  Volunteers observed the anniversary with cake and…

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Talent becomes Olivia's Valley

Michael Learned who plays Olivia Walton on the TV series The Waltons was guest of honor at the ribbon cutting ceremonies at the completion of…

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World War ll and Southern Oregon

Dennis Powers page long history of events of World War ll centered on three themes:  Camp White, Japanese Submarine Attacks, and Fire Bombs…

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New history center aims for summer opening

Historic Jacksonville is heading a project which will result in a new museum in Jacksonville.  The last museum closed in 2009.  Hoping…

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The Stories We Haven't told: The Evolving Narrative of Historic Hanley Farm

by Emma Walruff - Capstone project Southern Oregon University 2025 

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Frontier Heritage: A Family History of Our Pioneer Ancestors and Their Descendants in the American West

compiled by Michael J. Moratto and John E. Moratto Family names included in this volume are Ernest Louis Cassel and Naomi Moore Cassel, Forgeys,…

920 Cassel Library
Pacific Northwest Quarterly

April 1992 Vol 83 No 2 includes "Beneath the Hooded Robe: Newspapermen, Local Politics and the Ku Klux Klan in Jackson County, Oregon 1921-1923

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The Making of a New Western Hero

The Forest Ranger in Popular Fiction, 1900-1940 by Jeff LaLande published in Journal of Forestry November 2000 pages 43-50 includes a copy of a…

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Underside 973 U53 1974 V. 1 Library
Old Glory 973 042 1973 Library
Oregon Regiments in the Civil War Years: Duty on the Indian Frontier

by Glann Thomas Edwards, Jr.

MA Thesis from U of O, 1960

970.494 E4 1960 Library
National Parks The American Experience 973 R93 1987 Library
Indians of North America: The Modoc

by Odie B. and Laura E. Faulk, 1988

Frank W. Porter III, general editor

with photographs

970.494 F3 1988 Library
Our Vanishing Landscape

Wilfred Funk

Ballantine Books, 1955

Printed 1974,1976

Social History of early landscapes

973 S56 1955 Library
Lore and Legends of the Klamath River Indians

by Charles F. Graves,  1929

Siskiyou County

970.494 G73 1929 copy 1 and 2 Library
Houses and Homes 973 H85 1987 Library
The California Indians: a Source Book

compiled and edited by R. F. Heizer and M. A. Whipple, 1962

series of essays

 

970.494 H43 1962 Library
Material Culture and the Study of American Life 973 M38 1978 Library
Ordinary People and Everyday Life 973 O73 1983 Library
Handbook of North American Indians

By William Sturtevant, 1978

Volume 8, California

970.494 H43 1978 Library
Modoc the Tribe that Wouldn't Die

by Cheewa James, 2008

Modoc history from war and after, illustrated with many photographs

970.494 J72 2008 Library
Main Street the Face of Urban America 973 B53 1977 Library
Handbook of the Indians of California

by A.L. Kroeber, 1976

Many illustrations and maps

970.494 K76 1976 Library
Presence of the Past 973 H 68 1965 Library
The Way it Was in the USA 973 H67 1978 Library
Temples of Democracy 973 H58 1976 Library
The Indians of Southwestern Oregon: An Ethnohistorical Review

by Jeff LaLande

Anthropology Northwest: number 6, 1991

970.495 L34 1991 copy 2 Library