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Bibliography of Oregon history

The following published works deal with the cultural, political, economic, military, biographical and geologic history of pre-territorial Oregon, Oregon Territory and the State of Oregon.

Surveys of Oregon history

Pre-statehood

Historic expeditions

Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806)

Geography and environment

  • Bell, Jon. On Mount Hood: A Biography of Oregon's Perilous Peak (2011)
  • Dillow, Frank. "Connecting Oregon: The Slow Road to Rapid Communications, 1843-–2009." Oregon Historical Quarterly 111.2 (2010): 184–219. in JSTOR
  • Hayes, Derek. Historical Atlas of Washington and Oregon (2011)

Business, industry and labor

  • Brock, Emily K. Money Trees: The Douglas Fir and American Forestry, 1900-1944 (Oregon State University Press, 2015). 272 pp.

Military histories

Native American histories

  • , on Indians

Local and regional histories

  • Abbott, Carl. "From urban frontier to metropolitan region: Oregon's cities from 1870 to 2008." Oregon Historical Quarterly (2009): 74–95. online

Portland

  • Abbott, Carl. Portland in Three Centuries (Oregon State University Press, 2011)
  • Abbott, Carl. "Regional city and network city: Portland and Seattle in the twentieth century." Western Historical Quarterly (1992): 293–322. online
  • Gibson, Karen, and Carl Abbott. "Portland, Oregon." Cities 19.6 (2002): 425–436.

Columbia river

Ghost towns

Biographies

Memoirs, diaries and journals

Political histories

  • Burton, Robert E. "The New Deal in Oregon," in John Braeman et al. eds. The New Deal: Volume Two - the State and Local Levels (1975) pp 355–75
  • Etulain, Richard W. (2013). Lincoln and Oregon Country Politics in the Civil War. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press.

Culture

Social history

Geology

Journals

Bibliographies

Websites

  • Oregon Encyclopedia, a peer-reviewed project of the Portland State University history department and others

See also

Notes