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Title:
A guide to Oregon south coast history : traveling the Jedediah Smith Trail
ISBN:
9780870714627
Edition:
New ed.
Publication Information:
Corvallis, OR : Oregon State University Press, ©1999.
Physical Description:
xii, 208 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Contents:
Oregon South Coast History -- The Natural Setting and Its Transformation -- Early Coastal Exploration -- Later Spanish Coastal Exploration -- Captain James Cook -- American Coastal Exploration -- Captain George Vancouver -- Early Nineteenth-Century Contacts with South Coast Indians -- Prehistory -- Indian Linguistic Groups -- Indian Food Resources -- Indian Houses -- Indian Wealth and Class Distinctions -- Indian Religious Beliefs -- Survival of Indian Culture -- Beginning of White Settlement -- Indian-White Conflict -- Pioneer Economy -- The South Coast Since 1900 -- A Personal View of Recent Urban Changes -- Historic Places, Sites, and Museums -- The Approach of the Jedediah Smith Expedition to Oregon in 1828 -- Chetco Valley to Rogue River -- Jedediah Smith Campsites One and Two Winchuck River to Chetco River -- Chetco Valley -- Chetco Valley Historical Museum -- Chetco Valley History: 1860s-Present -- Kalmiopsis Wilderness -- Jedediah Smith Campsite Three Thomas Creek -- Samuel H. Boardman State Park -- Jedediah Smith Campsites Four and Five Pistol River to Rogue River -- Rogue River Indian Villages -- War on the Rogue River -- Gold Mining on the South Coast -- Curry County Historical Museum: Gold Beach -- Robert D. Hume, Salmon King: Wedderburn -- Zane Grey and Sport Fishing on the Rogue -- Rogue River Ranch: Mule Creek -- Rogue River or Isaac Lee Patterson Bridge -- Rogue River to Bandon -- Geisel Monument Wayside -- Jedediah Smith Campsites Six to Eight Rogue River to Humbug Mountain -- Humbug Mountain -- American and British Discovery of Port Orford -- Battle Rock -- Port Orford and Fort Orford -- Cape Blanco: Lighthouse, Shipwrecks, and Japanese Fire Bombs -- Jedediah Smith Campsite Nine Sixes River -- The Hughes House on Cape Blanco -- Langlois -- Jedediah Smith Campsite Ten South of the Coquille River -- Bandon -- Bandon's Indian Village -- Coquille River Museum: Bandon -- Coquille Valley Eastward -- Farms and Early Towns along the Coquille River -- Coquille -- Coos Bay Wagon Road -- Fairview to Sitkum -- Sitkum in Brewster Valley -- Sitkum to Reston (or Lookingglass) -- Myrtlewood in the Coquille Valley -- Myrtle Point -- Coos County Logging Museum -- South Fork of the Coquille River to Powers -- Pioneer (Wagner) House and Railroad Museum: Powers -- Early Powers -- Port-Orford-Cedar -- Bandon to Coos Bay -- Bullards State Park: Prehistory -- Bullards State Park: Indian-White Conflict -- White Settlers of Bullards State Park -- Bandon Lighthouse at Bullards State Park -- Shipwrecks on the Coquille Bar -- Jedediah Smith Campsite Eleven Whiskey Run -- Seven Devils Road--Randolph Trail -- Jedediah Smith Campsite Twelve Cape Arago -- Francis Drake: South Cove, Cape Arago -- Jedediah Smith Campsite Thirteen Shore Acres -- Louis J. Simpson and Shore Acres Gardens -- Jedediah Smith Campsite Fourteen Sunset Bay -- Cape Arago Light: Gregory Point -- Jedediah Smith Campsite Fifteen Charleston -- Charleston -- Coos Bay Bar -- Shipwrecks off the Coos Bay Bar -- South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve -- Jedediah Smith Campsites Sixteen and Seventeen: Charleston to North Spit -- Camp Castaway and the Wreck of the Captain Lincoln -- Empire -- Downtown Coos Bay: Historic Buildings -- Coos Bay Boardwalk -- Marshfield Sun Printing Museum: Coos Bay -- Isthmus Slough: Mill Sites -- Isthmus Slough: Coal Mines -- Coos County Historical Society Museum: North Bend -- Coos Bay to Heceta Head -- McCullough Memorial Bridge over Coos Bay -- Umpqua River Lighthouse and Coastal Visitor Center: Winchester Bay-Salmon Harbor -- White Settlement on the Lower Umpqua River -- Fort Umpqua: North Spit of the Umpqua River -- Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area: Coos Bay to Florence -- Umpqua Discovery Center: Reedsport -- Jedediah Smith Campsites Eighteen to Twenty Winchester Bay to Smith River -- Scottsburg and Gardiner -- Jessie M. Honeyman Memorial State Park and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) -- Siuslaw Pioneer Museum -- Florence and Siuslaw River -- Heceta Head Lighthouse -- Jedediah Smith's Route to Fort Vancouver -- Jedediah Smith's Relations with Indians -- Historical Societies, Museums, and Lighthouses -- Government Agencies: Parks and Natural Areas.
Abstract:
"One of the state's most spectacular scenic regions, Oregon's southern coast is also rich in history. Fur trade explorer Jedediah Smith, Coos Indian Annie Miner Peterson, lumber baron Louis Simpson, and writer Zane Grey are just a few of the fascinating individuals who helped shape South Coast history."--BOOK JACKET. "This guide and reference work opens with an overview of South Coast history, from prehistory to the present. This first section features in-depth looks at the region's native peoples, early exploration, White settlement, Indian-White warfare, the forest industry, transportation, and town development."--BOOK JACKET. "The second section follows the route taken along the South Coast in 1828 by Jedediah Smith, one of the foremost explorers of the American West. It describes key historic sites from the California/Oregon border to Heceta Head. Drawing on journal entries, the author traces the Jedediah Smith Expedition's advance, and recounts its troubled relations with coastal Indians and its tragic ending. Along the expedition's route, the book profiles the region's many historic places."--BOOK JACKET.