US States/Oregon/History

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The History of Oregon

1. Timeline
2. Indigenous cultures and people
3. Early exploration
4. Discovery of the Columbia
5. Jacob Astor and Astoria
6. Early pioneers and settlers
7. The Astoria Military Road
8. Willamette Falls and the Dalles
9. John McLoughlin and Fort Vancouver
10. Joseph Gale and the trip to California
11. Land surveys, Wagon roads, and first towns
12. The Land Donation Acts
13. Formation of the provisional government
14. Joseph Meek, the first Sherriff
15. Forest Grove and Stumptown
16. Out with the furs and in with the firs
17. Salmon, Wapiti, and Wapato
18. Marcus Whitman
19. Joseph Lane and statehood
20. The Oregon Trail and California Gold Rush
21. Poor relations with the natives
22. Oregon Land Frauds
23. Railroads and Timber
24. The time of Electric Trolleys
25. The First World War
26. The Great Depression
27. The Tillamook Burn
28. Log Trucks, Buses, and Chainsaws
29. The Pacific and Wolf Creek Highways
30. City of Bridges

Historical Maps of Oregon

Oregon on Old Maps Online - https://www.oldmapsonline.org

Learning Resources

The Oregon Encyclopedia

Oregon Historical Society

• Oregon History Project
• Oregon TimeWeb
• Research Library Catalog

Oregon History Wayfinder

Oregon Historical Quarterly

Museums and Archives

Oregon Historical Society Museum

OHS Digital Collections

Historical Sites, Towns, and Building of Oregon

Wikipedia category: Histories of cities in Oregon

Oregon Historians

Harvey Kimball Hines (1828–1902) was a Methodist minister and an early historian of the U.S. state of Oregon. In 1878 he ran for Congress, and drew criticism for neglecting his religious vows in so doing. He was known, along with Frances Fuller Victor, as a historian who delved through early original documents.

Frances Auretta Fuller (Barritt) Victor (pen names: Florence Fane, Dorothy D.) (May 23, 1826 – November 14, 1902) was an American historian and historical novelist. She has been described as "the first Oregon historian to gain regional and national attention." She was known for her books about the West and especially Oregon history.

Horace Sumner Lyman (December 18, 1855 – December 22, 1904) was a prominent journalist, historian, and educator in the U.S. state of Oregon.

Joseph Schafer (1867-1941) was the first academically trained historian in the U.S. state of Oregon. He studied with Frederick Jackson Turner, and chaired the history department at the University of Oregon from 1900 to 1920. He authored A History of the Pacific Northwest in 1905 and revised it in 1918; the book was considered the standard history of the region into the 1950s.

See also:

Wikipedia Category: Historians of Oregon

Readings

Wikipedia

• History of Oregon
• Oregon pioneer history
• History of Portland, Oregon
• Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast
• Oregon black exclusion laws
• Oregon in the American Civil War
• Outline_of_Oregon (history)