Author: Joseph H. Labadie
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 145754895X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This book is a real story about an ordinary family from Albia, Iowa, who in 1862 crossed the Oregon Trail and settled in the lower Powder River Valley in what today is Baker City, Oregon. Within two years, family members were part of a thriving dry-goods and mercantile business in the gold-mining town of Mormon Basin, selling rubber boots, shovels, and liquor to both American and Chinese miners. By the late 1860s, the easy gold had been panned and sluiced out so the miners moved on to chase bigger dreams in newer places. So too did some of the family members; they sold their business interests and with a saddlebag full of gold rode north to Umatilla County, Oregon, where in 1871 they started a ranch and cattle business. Portions of James Shumway’s Couse Creek Ranch near Milton-Freewater are still owned by descendants; it is an Oregon State Centennial Ranch. This book uses old photographs, letters, documents, business journals, personal diaries, and contemporary research to recount 150 years of Barton–Shumway family history in eastern Oregon. It is a story told through the lives of some of the real people who survived it.
150 Years of Eastern Oregon History
Author: Joseph H. Labadie
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 145754895X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This book is a real story about an ordinary family from Albia, Iowa, who in 1862 crossed the Oregon Trail and settled in the lower Powder River Valley in what today is Baker City, Oregon. Within two years, family members were part of a thriving dry-goods and mercantile business in the gold-mining town of Mormon Basin, selling rubber boots, shovels, and liquor to both American and Chinese miners. By the late 1860s, the easy gold had been panned and sluiced out so the miners moved on to chase bigger dreams in newer places. So too did some of the family members; they sold their business interests and with a saddlebag full of gold rode north to Umatilla County, Oregon, where in 1871 they started a ranch and cattle business. Portions of James Shumway’s Couse Creek Ranch near Milton-Freewater are still owned by descendants; it is an Oregon State Centennial Ranch. This book uses old photographs, letters, documents, business journals, personal diaries, and contemporary research to recount 150 years of Barton–Shumway family history in eastern Oregon. It is a story told through the lives of some of the real people who survived it.
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 145754895X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This book is a real story about an ordinary family from Albia, Iowa, who in 1862 crossed the Oregon Trail and settled in the lower Powder River Valley in what today is Baker City, Oregon. Within two years, family members were part of a thriving dry-goods and mercantile business in the gold-mining town of Mormon Basin, selling rubber boots, shovels, and liquor to both American and Chinese miners. By the late 1860s, the easy gold had been panned and sluiced out so the miners moved on to chase bigger dreams in newer places. So too did some of the family members; they sold their business interests and with a saddlebag full of gold rode north to Umatilla County, Oregon, where in 1871 they started a ranch and cattle business. Portions of James Shumway’s Couse Creek Ranch near Milton-Freewater are still owned by descendants; it is an Oregon State Centennial Ranch. This book uses old photographs, letters, documents, business journals, personal diaries, and contemporary research to recount 150 years of Barton–Shumway family history in eastern Oregon. It is a story told through the lives of some of the real people who survived it.
Trails of Discovery
Author: Eastern Oregon Visitors Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oregon, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oregon, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
History of the Oregon Country
Author: Harvey Whitefield Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
History of Oregon
Author: Charles Henry Carey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
Pioneer Days of Oregon History
Author: Samuel Asahel Clarke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oregon Territory
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oregon Territory
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Oregon
Author: John B. Horner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Eastern Oregon Books and Print
Author: Wayne Kee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971465312
Category : Oregon, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971465312
Category : Oregon, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Starting Over
Author: William F. Willingham
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Prior to the early 1870s, Oregon's Long Creek Valley was an isolated oasis of bunch grass and wildlife surrounded by rugged, heavily timbered mountains. Among the valley's first white settlers, lured by the abundance of grass and water, were William F. Willingham's great-grandparents. During summer visits as a child, he listened to his elderly relatives' stories about growing up on the frontier. In Starting Over, the author draws on a range of sources to bring to life the people who scratched out a community based on cattle and sheep raising, kinship ties, and shared social values. Willingham shows how the development of Long Creek illuminates key aspects of the story of the last phase of the settling of the American frontier.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Prior to the early 1870s, Oregon's Long Creek Valley was an isolated oasis of bunch grass and wildlife surrounded by rugged, heavily timbered mountains. Among the valley's first white settlers, lured by the abundance of grass and water, were William F. Willingham's great-grandparents. During summer visits as a child, he listened to his elderly relatives' stories about growing up on the frontier. In Starting Over, the author draws on a range of sources to bring to life the people who scratched out a community based on cattle and sheep raising, kinship ties, and shared social values. Willingham shows how the development of Long Creek illuminates key aspects of the story of the last phase of the settling of the American frontier.
Fifty Years in Oregon
Author: Theodore Thurston Geer
Publisher: New York : The Neale publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher: New York : The Neale publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Eastern Oregon Books and Print
Author: Wayne Kee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971465305
Category : Local author
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971465305
Category : Local author
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description