Wikisource:WikiProject Oregon

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

To upload and transcribe: Northwest Books (1942, Binfords & Mort)

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.

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

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?


 * (Brown's Political History of Oregon, 1892)
 * History of Oregon (1922), by Charles Henry Carey   (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:


 * Bridge of the Gods—A romance of Indian Oregon.
 * McLoughlin and Old Oregon—Dye.
 * McDonald of Oregon —Dye.
 * A Short History of Oregon—Johnson.
 * Letters from an Oregon Ranch—Stephens.
 * The Conquest—Dye.
 * Sheriff of Wasco—Jackson.
 * Jimmy John Boss —Wister.
 * Columbia River—Lyman.
 * Mountains of Oregon —SteeleSteel [sic].
 * 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 ColumumbiaColumbia [sic]—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.
 * Oregon Literature—Horner.
 * Poems—Miller.
 * Two years in Oregon—Nash.

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.
 * History of Oregon (Bancroft)/Volume 2/Chapter 23 Fuller's consideration of the topic in History of Oregon