Oregon State History

The history of Oregon may be considered in five eras: geologic history, inhabitation by native peoples, early exploration by Europeans (primarily fur traders), settlement by pioneers, and modern development. The term "Oregon" may refer to any of three phases: Oregon Country, a large region explored by Americans, British, and others (and generally known to Canadians as the Columbia District); the Oregon Territory, established by the United States two years after its sovereignty over the region was established by the Oregon Treaty, and before states were established in the Pacific Northwest; and the modern U.S. state of Oregon. (Oregon was also an early name for the Columbia River.)

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by Bob & Jan Young, maps & drawings by Barry Martin
from Julian Messner
for 5th-8th grade
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Adventures of Captain Bonneville
by Washington Irving, illustrated by Robert Reynolds
Klickitat from Binford & Mort Publishing
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America in the Time of Lewis and Clark
by Sally Senzel Isaacs
from Heinemann-Raintree
for 2nd-5th grade
in 19th Century America (Location: HISA-19C)
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Antoine of Oregon
America's Children
by James Otis
from Living Book Press
for 4th-6th grade
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Apples to Oregon
by Deborah Hopkinson
Reprint from Aladdin Paperbacks
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Attack in the Rye Grass
Trailblazer Series
by Dave and Neta Jackson
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Attack in the Rye Grass
Trailblazer Series
by Dave and Neta Jackson
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B is for Beaver
by Marie & Roland Smith, illustrated by Michael Roydon
from Sleeping Bear Press
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Back Roads of Oregon
by Earl Thollander
from Clarkson Potter Publishers
for 9th-Adult
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Back Roads of Oregon
by Earl Thollander
from Clarkson Potter Publishers
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Bandon by the Sea
by Dow Beckham
from Arago Books
for Adult
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Bargain Bride
by Evelyn Sibley Lampman
from Purple House Press
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Bat 6
by Virginia Euwer Wolff
from Scholastic Inc.
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Battle of Seattle
by Douglas Bond
from P&R Publishing
for 4th-9th grade
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Bound for Oregon
by Jean Van Leeuwen
from Puffin Books
Historical Fiction for 4th-7th grade
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Bridge of the Gods
by F. H. Balch, illustrated by L. Maynard Dixon
from A.C. McClurg & Co.
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Cape Forts
by Marshall Hanft
Revised from Oregon Historical Society Press
for 4th-6th grade
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Caravan to Oregon
by Herbert E. Arntson
from Binford & Mort Publishing
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Cassie's Journey
by Brett Harvey; illustrated by Deborah Kogan Ray
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Chief Joseph Country
by Bill Gulick
from Caxton Press
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Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces
by Shannon Garst, illustrated by Douglas Gorsline
from Julian Messner
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Columbia River
by Stewart H. Holbrook
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Columbia, The
Rivers of America
by Stewart H. Holbrook
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Country Boy
by Homer Davenport
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Daily Life in a Covered Wagon
by Paul Erickson
from Puffin Books
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in Pioneer & Frontier Life (Location: HISA-19PIO)
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Dear Levi
by Elvira Woodruff
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for 4th-6th grade
in Oregon Trail (Location: HISA-19OR)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Discovering Oregon - PDF Download
by Katherine Matchette
from Exodus Books
for 4th-7th grade
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$5.00
Eagle and the Fort
by Dorothy Morrison
from Oregon Historical Society Press
Biography for 5th-8th grade
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Early Days in Old Oregon
by Katharine B. Judson
from Binford & Mort Publishing
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Early Oregon Days
by Edwin D. Culp
1St Edition from Caxton Press
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East of the Cascades
by Phil F. Brogan
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Empire Builders
by Robert Ormond Case
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Enchantment of America: Oregon
by Allan Carpenter & Phil Carpenter
from Children's Press
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Facing West
by Kathleen V. Kudlinski
for 4th-7th grade
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Finns and Finnicans
by Walter Mattila
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Fishermen
by Daniel Jacobson, illustrated by Richard Cuffari
from Franklin Watts
for 4th-8th grade
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Flatboats and Wagon Wheels
by Mildred Houghton Comfort, illustrated by Dirk Gringhuis
from Beckley-Cardy Company
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For Ma and Pa
by Wilma Pitchford Hays, illustrated by Peter Burchard
from Coward McCann
for 2nd-4th grade
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Freighters and Pilgrims
Knowledge Keepers Home Library Series 1865
by Charles E. Young and Sarah Raymond Herndon
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for Adult
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
General History of Oregon
by C. H. Carey
3rd edition from Binford & Mort Publishing
for 11th-Adult
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Get Oregonized - Set
by Rod Fielder
Revised from Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom Foundation
for 3rd-5th grade
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$40.00 (1 in stock)
Give All to Oregon
by Cecil P. Dryden
from Hastings House
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God's Mountain Man
by Esther Vogt
from Gospel Publishing
Biography for 9th-Adult
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Going West
by Martin Waddell, illustratred by Philippe Dupasquier
from Harper & Row
for Preschool-2nd grade
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Gray & Columbia's River
by Joean K. Fransen
from Binford & Mort Publishing
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Great and Minor Moments in Oregon History
by Dick Pintarich
1st edition from New Oregon Publishers
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Here Rolled the Covered Wagons
by Albert Salisbury
from Superior Publishing Company
for 3rd-6th grade
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How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon
by Oliver W. Nixon
from Star Publishing
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If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon
If You Were There
by Ellen Levine
from Scholastic Inc.
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In Search of Western Oregon
by Ralph Friedman
1st Ed from Caxton Press
for 11th-Adult
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Indian Portraits of the Pacific Northwest
by George M. Cochran
3rd edition from Binford & Mort Publishing
for 4th-8th grade
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Indians of Western Oregon
by Stephen Dow Beckham, illustrated by Christina Romano
from Arago Books
for 7th-12th grade
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It's My State! Oregon
It's My State!
by Joyce Hart and Jacqueline Laks Gorman
from Marshall Cavendish Education
for 3rd-6th grade
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Joe Meek
by Shannon Garst
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Joseph, Chief of the Nez Perce
by Dean Pollock
from Binford & Mort Publishing
Picture Book Biography for 5th-7th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
Joseph, Chief of the Nez Perce
by Dean Pollock
from Binford & Mort Publishing
for 5th-7th grade
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Journey West on the Oregon Trail
by Cecile Alyce Nolan
from Rain Dance Publishing
for 2nd-7th grade
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$7.50 (1 in stock)
Kid on the River
by Dean Nichols
1st edition from Binford & Mort Publishing
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Kit Carson
A Discovery Book
by Nardi Reeder Campion, illustrated by Shannon Stirnweis
from Garrard Publishing Company
for 3rd-6th grade
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Lights in the Northwest
by Richard M. Hannula
from Sound Summit Books
Biographies for 4th-8th grade
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$17.95
Lights in the Northwest - Teacher's Supplement CD-ROM
by Richard M. Hannula
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$15.95
Lucretia Ann on the Oregon Trail
by Ruth Gipson Plowhead
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Lucretia Ann on the Oregon Trail
by Ruth Gipson Plowhead
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Lucretia Ann on the Oregon Trail
by Ruth Gipson Plowhead
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Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
by James Daugherty
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Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
A Discovery Book
by Marian T. Place
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Marcus Whitman: The Great Command
by Nard Jones
2nd edition from Binford & Mort Publishing
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Morning Song, Mourning Song
by Marje Blood
from Image Imprints
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Narcissa and Marcus Whitman
Heroes of God
by Anne West Williams
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Narcissa Whitman
by Jeanette Eaton, woodcuts by Woodi Ishmael
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On to Oregon!
by Honore Morrow
from William Morrow & Company
for 4th-8th grade
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On to Oregon!
by Honore Morrow
1946 Edition from William Morrow & Company
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Oregon
by Bernadine Bailey, illustrated by Kurt Wiese
from Albert Whitman & Company
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Oregon & Applegate Trail Diary of Welborn Beeson in 1853
by Bert Webber
for 4th-8th grade
in Oregon Trail (Location: HISA-19OR)
Oregon Geographic Names
by Lewis A. McArthur
Sixth Edition from Oregon Historical Society Press
for Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Oregon History - Student Workbook
by Georgia Sligar
Revised Edition from Oregon History Book
for 4th-8th grade
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Oregon in the Making
by C. Louis Barzee
from Statesman Publishing Company
for 9th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Oregon the Way It Was
by Edwin D. Culp
from Caxton Press
for 6th-9th grade
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Oregon Trail
Penguin Classics
by Francis Parkman Jr.
from Penguin Classics
Historical Non-fiction for 10th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$16.00
Oregon Trail
by Francis Parkman, Jr., illustrated by Frederic Remington
1993 printing from Little, Brown & Company
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Oregon Trail
by Francis Parkman, Jr., illustrated by Maynard Dixon
from Heritage Press
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
Oregon Trail
by Francis Parkman
from International Collectors Library
for 9th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
Oregon Trail
Events That Shaped America
by Michael V. Uschan, Sabrina Crewe
from Gareth Stevens Publishing
for 4th-6th grade
in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS)
Oregon Trail
by Leonard Everett Fisher
from Holiday House
for 5th-Adult
in Oregon Trail (Location: HISA-19OR)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Oregon Trail
Famous Books for Young Americans
by Francis Parkman
from A. L. Burt Company
for 9th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$7.50 (1 in stock)
Oregon Trail
by Francis Parkman Jr., illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton
from Garden City Books
for 7th-Adult
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Oregon Trail
by Francis Parkman Jr., illustrated by N.C. Wyeth
from Little, Brown & Company
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Oregon Trail
by Francis Parkman Jr., illustrated by James Daugherty
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
for 7th-Adult
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Oregon Trail
by Rinker Buck
from Simon and Schuster
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in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$19.99
Oregon Trail #01
Choose Your Own Trail!
by Jesse Wiley
from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
for 3rd-6th grade
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$7.99
Oregon Trail #02
Choose Your Own Trail!
by Jesse Wiley
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Oregon Trail #03
Choose Your Own Trail!
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Choose Your Own Trail!
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Oregon Trail #05
Choose Your Own Trail!
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$7.99
Oregon Trail #06
Choose Your Own Trail!
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Oregon Trail #07
Choose Your Own Trail!
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Oregon Trail #08
Choose Your Own Trail!
by Jesse Wiley
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$7.99
Oregon Trail #1-4 - Boxed Set
Choose Your Own Trail!
by Jesse Wiley
from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
for 3rd-6th grade
in Boxed Sets & Literature Packages (Location: FIC-BOX)
$31.00
Oregon Trail Cookbook
by Leslie J. Whipple
from Maverick Books
for Adult
in American Cooking (Location: COOK-US)
$7.20 (1 in stock)
Oregon Trail Diary of James Atkin, Jr. in 1852
by James Akin
for 9th-Adult
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