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Literature of Oregon category on Wikisource

The works in the category Literature of Oregon may be of interest.

The 100 Oregon Books

The Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission compiled a list in 2000 of

“The 100 Oregon Books”

Many are out of copyright. Some are already transcribed on Wikisource. Here’s the list, in full. Works published between 1925 and 1963, inclusive, are only marked with renewal status; works published before 1924 have either a Wiki-link to the relevant page on Wikisource or a hyper-link to an external scan.

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title	author	year	in copyright?
Bobbie, a Great Collie	Charles Alexander	1926	no
Skookum: An Oregon Pioneer Family’s History and Lore	Shannon Applegate	1988	probably
A Day with the Cow Column in 1843	Jesse Applegate	1843	no
Recollections of My Boyhood	Jesse A. Applegate	1914	no
The Clan of the Cave Bear	Jean M. Auel	1980	probably
The Grains, or Passages in the Life of Ruth Rover, With Occasional Pictures of Oregon, Natural and Moral	Margaret Jewett Bailey	1854; no scan	no
The Bridge of the Gods: A Romance of Indian Oregon	Frederic Homer Balch	1890	no
Assault on Mount Helicon: A Literary Memoir	Mary Barnard	1984	probably
Trying to Be an Honest Woman	Judith Barrington	1985	probably
Delights and Prejudices	James Beard	1964	probably
Trask	Don Berry	1960; renewed	probably
You Rolling River	Archie Binns	1947; renewed	probably
Trout Fishing in America	Richard Brautigan	1967	probably
Mountain Man	Verne Bright	1948; renewed	probably
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?	Raymond Carver	1976	probably
Eden Seekers: The Settlement of Oregon, 1818–1862	Malcolm Clark, Jr.	1981	probably
Ramona the Pest	Beverly Cleary	1968	probably
Ricochet River	Robin Cody	1992	probably
The Two Islands, and What Became of Them (external scan)	Thomas Condon	1902	no
Willamette Landings: Ghost Towns of the River (transcription project)	Howard McKinley Corning	1947	no
A Golden Journey: Memoirs of an Archaeologist	Luther S. Cressman	1988	probably
The Country Boy: The Story of His Own Early Life	Homer Davenport	1910	no
The Skyline Trail: A Book of Western Verse	Mary Carolyn Davies	1924; no scan	no
Honey in the Horn	H. L. Davis	1935; renewed	probably
The Book of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes	Sharon Doubiago	1988	probably
Journal kept by David Douglas during his travels in North America 1823-1827 (external scan)	David Douglas	1914	no
Of Men and Mountains	William O. Douglas	1950; renewed	probably
Beyond The Pavement	Albert Drake	1981	probably
The River Why	David James Duncan	1983	probably
From the West to the West: Across the Plains to Oregon	Abigail Scott Duniway	1905	no
Geek Love	Katherine Dunn	1989	probably
McLoughlin and Old Oregon: A Chronicle	Eva Emery Dye	1900; (transcription project)	no
By Scarlet Torch and Blade	Anthony Euwer	1923; (transcription project)	no
White Peaks and Green	Ethel Romig Fuller	1928; not renewed IA	no
Several Houses	Vi Gale	1959; not renewed	no
The Jump-Off Creek	Molly Gloss	1989	probably
Roll on Columbia: the Columbia River collection (see: 10 of Woody Guthrie's Songs)	Woody Guthrie	1946	no
Return to the River: A Story of the Chinook Run	Roderick L. Haig-Brown	1941; renewed	probably
Curtains	Hazel Hall	1921; (external scan)	no
The Cabin at the Trail’s End: A Story of Oregon	Sheba Hargreaves	1928; renewed	probably
Dr. Mallory	Alan Hart	1935; not renewed	no
The Earthbreakers	Ernest Haycox	1952; renewed	probably
The Blood Remembers	Helen Hedrick	1941; renewed	probably
Far Corner: A Personal View of the Pacific Northwest	Stewart Holbrook	1952; renewed	probably
Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims	Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins	1884; (transcription project)	no
Before the War: poems as they happened	Lawson Fusao Inada	1971	probably
Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains	Washington Irving	1836	no
The Oregon Desert	E. R. Jackman and R. A. Long	1964	probably
Oregon Detour	Nard Jones	1930; not renewed	no
The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest	Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.	1965	probably
Broken Ground	John Keeble	1987	probably
Sometimes a Great Notion	Ken Kesey	1964	probably
A Sweetness to the Soul	Jane Kirkpatrick	1995	probably
Hole in the Sky: A Memoir	William Kittredge	1992	probably
At the End of the Car Line	Ben Hur Lampman	1942; renewed	probably
The Lathe of Heaven	Ursula K. Le Guin	1971	probably
Winterkill	Craig Lesley	1984	probably
The Journals of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark to the sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the river Columbia to the Pacific Ocean, performed during the years 1804–5–6 by order of the Government of the United States	Meriwether Lewis and William Clark	1814; c. 1905 reprint in 8 vols.	no
Of Wolves and Men	Barry Holstun Lopez	1978	probably
Ranald MacDonald: The Narrative of his early life of the Columbia under the Hudson’s Bay Company’s regime; of his experiences in the Pacific Whale Fishery; and of his great Adventure to Japan; with a sketch of his later life on the Western Frontier, 1824–1894	Ranald MacDonald on Wikipedia	1923; (external scan)	no
A New Life	Bernard Malamud	1961; renewed	probably
The Man with the Hoe, and Other Poems (Markham, Pyle, 1900)	Edwin Markham	1900	no
A Peculiar Paradise: a History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788–1940	Elizabeth McLagan	1980	probably
Life Amongst the Modocs: Unwritten History (transcription project) or better (with images): IA	Joaquin Miller	1873	no
Tule Lake	Edward Miyakawa	1979	probably
Mansions in the Cascades	Anne Shannon Monroe and Elizabeth Lambert Wood	1936; not renewed	no
Gentle Ben	Walt Morey	1965	probably
An Arrow in the Earth: General Joel Palmer and the Indians of Oregon	Terence O’Donnell	1991	probably
Fight Club	Chuck Palahniuk	1996	probably
Nehalem Tillamook Tales	Clara Pearson	1959; not renewed IA	no
A Long Way to Frisco: A folk adventure novel of California and Oregon in 1852	Alfred Powers	1951; not renewed IA	no
A Saga of A Paper Mill	Laurence Pratt	1935; not renewed	no
Looters of the Public Domain, embracing a complete exposure of the fraudulent system of acquiring titles to the public lands of the United States	Stephen A. Douglas Puter and Horace Stevens	1908	no
Coyote Was Going There: Indian Literature of the Oregon Country	Jarold Ramsey	1977	probably
The Road to Zena	Joel Redon	1992	probably
Insurgent Mexico	John Reed	1914; (transcription project)	no
Nordi’s Gift	Clyde Rice	1990	probably
Ruined Cities	Vern Rutsala	1987	probably
Beyond Deserving	Sandra Scofield	1991	probably
Heckletooth 3	David Shetzline	1969	probably
The Gold-Gated West: Songs and Poems	Samuel L. Simpson	1910; (transcription project)	no
Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems	Gary Snyder	1965	probably
Having Everything Right: Essays of Place	Kim Stafford	1986	probably
Traveling through the Dark	William Stafford	1962; not renewed IA	no
Letters from an Oregon Ranch	Louise Stephens	1905	no
Big Jim Turner	James Stevens	1948; renewed	probably
Departure	Janet Stevenson	1985	probably
Cathlamet on the Columbia; Recollection of the Indian People and Short Stories of Early Pioneer Days in the Valley of the Lower Columbia	Thomas Nelson Strong	1906; (transcription project)	no
Listening for Coyote: A Walk Across Oregon’s Wilderness	William L. Sullivan	1988	probably
The Northwest Coast, Or, Three Years' Residence in Washington Territory	James G. Swan	1857; (transcription project)	no
The Loop: A Tale of the Oregon Country	Thirteen Oregon Authors	1931; not renewed	no
Stepping Westward: The Long Search for Home in the Pacific Northwest	Sallie Tisdale	1991	probably
Making the Magic Circle: An intimate geography	George Venn	1987	probably
The River of the West: Life and Adventure in the Rocky Mountains and Oregon; Embracing Events in the Life-Time of a Mountain-Man and Pioneer (edited and republished as Eleven years in the Rocky Mountains and a life on the frontier, fully transcribed here)	Frances Fuller Victor	1870	no
Fiddlers’ Green, or The Strange Adventure of Tommy Lawn; A Tale of the Great Divide of the Sailormen	Albert Wetjen	1931; renewed	probably
The Story of Opal: The Journal of An Understanding Heart	Opal Whiteley	1920	no
Beyond the Garden Gate	Sophus Keith Winther	1946; renewed	probably
The Canoe and the Saddle: Adventures among the Northwestern Rivers and Forests and Isthmania	Theodore Winthrop	1883; (external scan) or IA	no
Collected Poems	Charles Erskine Scott Wood	1949; renewed	probably
Seven Hands, Seven Hearts	Elizabeth Woody	1994	probably
Bat 6	Virginia Euwer Wolff	1998	probably

History

• Oregon Historical Quarterly (note search box on that page)
• Category:Encyclopedia articles about Oregon

See the histories by:

• Frances Fuller Victor, widely considered the first Oregon historian to employ a rigorous approach. Much of her history writing was published under the name of Hubert Howe Bancroft, who in many cases took credit for himself.
• Joseph Schafer was the first academically trained historian of the region.
• Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (transcription project)

Various works by:

• Joseph Gaston
• Harvey Whitefield Scott (History of Portland, Oregon, 1990; History of the Oregon Country, 1924, compiled after his death by his son Leslie McChesney Scott from the elder Scott's newspaper writings and public addresses thoroughout his career.)
• History of the Pacific Northwest by Elwood Evans
• Harvey Kimball Hines
• Edward Gaylord Bourne, a Yale historian who took an interest in aspects of the Pacific Northwest

• William Henry Gray The first and the worst?

• IA (Brown's Political History of Oregon, 1892)
• History of Oregon (1922), by Charles Henry Carey IA IA IA (vol. 1 is dubious)

Oregon in the Library

“Oregon in the Library,” St. Johns Review, vol. 7, no. 51.

This article mentions the following works:

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• Bridge of the Gods—A romance of Indian Oregon.
• McLoughlin and Old Oregon—Dye.^[1]
• McDonald of Oregon^[2]—Dye.
• A Short History of Oregon—Johnson.^[3]
• Letters from an Oregon Ranch—Stephens.
• The Conquest—Dye.
• Sheriff of Wasco—Jackson.^[4]
• Jimmy John Boss^[5]—Wister.
• Columbia River—Lyman.
• Mountains of Oregon^[6]—Steele.
• How the Oregon Trail became a Road—Martin.^[7]
• Cathlamet on the Columbia—Strong.^[8]
• Myths and Legends of our own land—Skinner.^[9]
• Vikings of the Pacific—Laut.^[10]
• Log Schoolhouse on the Columumbia—Butterworth.^[11]
• Live Boys in Oregon—Banks.^[12]
• 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.^[13]
• Flora of the Northwest America—Howell.^[14]
• First book upon birds of Oregon and Washington—Lord.^[15]
• Oregon Literature—Horner.
• Poems—Miller.
• Two years in Oregon—Nash.^[16]

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1. See above. (Wikisource contributor note)
2. McDonald of Old Oregon (Wikisource contributor note)
3. A Short History of Oregon, by Sidona V. [Viola] Johnson. (transcription project) (Wikisource contributor note)
4. The Sheriff of Wasco, by Charles Ross Jackson. IA (Wikisource contributor note)
5. The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories, by Owen Wister. (external scan) (Wikisource contributor note)
6. The Mountains of Oregon, by W. G. [William Gladstone] Steel. (external scan) (Wikisource contributor note)
7. How the Oregon Trail Became a Road, by George Washington Martin (1841–1914). (external scan) (Wikisource contributor note)
8. See above. (Wikisource contributor note)
9. Myths & Legends of Our Own Land, by Charles M. [Montgomery] Skinner. 2 vols. (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2) (Wikisource contributor note)
10. Vikings of the Pacific, by A. C. [Agnes Christina] Laut. (external scan) (Wikisource contributor note)
11. The Log School-House on the Columbia, by Hezekiah Butterworth. (external scan) (Wikisource contributor note)
12. Live Boys in Oregon, by Louis Albert Banks. (external scan) (Wikisource contributor note)
13. The Story of Oregon and Its People, by Charles H. [Hiram] Chapman. (external scan) (Wikisource contributor note)
14. A Flora of Northwest America, by Thomas Howell. (external scan) (Wikisource contributor note)
15. A First Book upon the Birds of Oregon & Washington, by William Rogers Lord. (external scan) (Wikisource contributor note),
16. Two Years in Oregon, by Wallis Nash. (external scan) (Wikisource contributor note)

Further articles to explore

• Writers of Oregon by Eva Emery Dye, Pacific Monthly, 1900.
• Short Story Writers of North Pacific Coast, The Daily Journal, Salem, Oregon, Feb. 8, 1902.