Oregon in the Library
Knowledge, like charity, should begin at home. How much do you know about Oregon? The world is talking about us—witness the current magazines—therefore it behooves us to know ourselves. Winter is a poor time for traveling, but the best of seasons for settling down at home and finding out what a good state we live in. Whether your taste is for romance or stern reality, adventure, poetry or fairy tales, history or politics, the literature of Oregon can please you. Having been the home of the Indian and the pioneer, Oregon is the land of romance and adventure: being the home of the mountains and the sea, it is the land of beauty; becoming the home of the thinker, it is the land of progress. Below are a few of the books on Oregon which the library can furnish, many of them by Oregon authors. A longer list may be seen at the reading room:
Bridge of the Gods—A romance of Indian Oregon.
McLoughlin and Old Oregon—Dye. “A spirited narrative of what life in the wilderness meant in the early days, a record of heroism, self sacrifice and dogged persistence; a graphic page of the American pioneer.”
McDonald of Oregon—Dye. A tale of two shores. “It is like telling of some grand old epic, to show the spirit of those men who blazed the trail to an unknown wilderness.”
Short history of Oregon—Johnson. “Every home in Oregon might well welcome this condensed readable history of Oregon.”
Letters from an Oregon Ranch—Stephens. “The hours of delight, as well as those of trial, which fall to the lot of ‘Katherine,’ in creating a home out of the raw materials of nature, are chronicled with naive humor, and in a vein of hearty optimism which will make a hearty appeal.”
The Conquest—Dye. Being a true story of Lewis and Clark. A historical romance.
Sheriff of Wasco—Jackson.
Jimmy John Boss—Wister.
Mountains of Oregon—Steele.
How the Oregon Trail became a Road—Martin.
Cathlamet on the Columbia—Strong.
Myths and Legends of our own land—Skinner.
Vikings of the Pacific—Laut.
Log Schoolhouse on the Columumbia—Butterworth.
Live Boys in Oregon—Banks.
Law-making by the voters—Hendrick.
How the people of Oregon, working under the initiative and referendum, have their own political bosses.
The initiative and referendum and how Oregon got them—Hendrick.
Statement No. 1; how the Oregon Democracy destroyed the political machine—Hendrick.
Story of Oregon and its people—Chapman.
Flora of the Northwest America—Howell.
First book upon birds of Oregon and Washington—Lord.
Poems—Miller.
Two years in Oregon—Nash.