Book Name

Literary Oregon

One Hundred Books, 1800-2000

Exhibit is located in the second floor lobby of the Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, Oregon. Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 – 5:00.

Book Name	Author
Bobbie, A Great Collie	Charles Alexander
Skookum: An Oregon Pioneer Family’s History and Lore	Shannon Applegate
A Day with the Cow Column in 1843 and Recollections of my Boyhood	Jesse Applegate
The Clan of the Cave Bear	Jean M. Auel
The Grains, or Passages in the Life of Ruth Rover, with Occasional Pictures of Oregon, Natural and Moral	Margaret Jewett Bailey
The Bridge of the Gods: A Romance of Indian Oregon	Frederic Homer Balch
Assault on Mount Helicon: A Literary Memoir	Mary Barnard
Trying to be an Honest Woman	Judith Barrington
Delights and Prejudices	James Beard
Trask	Don Berry
You Rolling River	Archie Binns
Trout Fishing in America	Richard Brautigan
Mountain Man	Verne Bright
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?	Raymond Carver
Eden Seekers: The Settlement of Oregon, 1818-1862	Malcolm Clark, Jr.
Ramona the Pest	Beverly Cleary
Ricochet River	Robin Cody
The Two Islands, and What Became of Them	Thomas Condon
Willamette Landings: Ghost Towns of the River	Howard McKinley Corning
A Golden Journey: Memoirs of an Archaeologist	Luther S. Cressman
The Country Boy: The Story of His Own Early Life	Homer Davenport
The Skyline Trail: A Book of Western Verse	Mary Carolyn Davies
Honey in the Horn	H.L. Davis
The Book of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes	Sharon Doubiago
Journal Kept by David Douglas During His Travels in North America, 1823-1827	David Douglas
Of Men and Mountains	William O. Douglas
Beyond the Pavement	Albert Drake
The River Why	David James Duncan
From the West to the West: Across the Plains to Oregon	Abigail Scott Duniway
Geek Love	Katherine Dunn
McLoughlin and Old Oregon: A Chronicle	Eva Emery Dye
By Scarlet Torch and Blade	Anthony Euwer
White Peaks and Green	Ethel Romig Fuller
Several Houses	Vi Gale
The Jump-Off Creek	Molly Gloss
Roll on Columbia: The Columbia River Collection	Woody Guthrie, Edited by Bill Murlin
Return to the River: A Story of the Chinook Run	Roderick L. Haig-Brown
Curtains	Hazel Hall
The Cabin at the Trail’s End: A Story of Oregon	Sheba Hargreaves
Dr. Mallory	Alan Hart
The Earthbreakers	Ernest Haycox
The Blood Remembers	Helen Hedrick
Far Corner: A Personal View of the Pacific Northwest	Stewart Holbrook
Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims	Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Edited by Mrs. Horace Mann
Before the War: Poems as They Happened	Lawson Fusao Inada
Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains	Washington Irving
The Oregon Desert	E.R. Jackman and R.A. Long
Oregon Detour	Nard Jones
The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest	Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
Broken Ground	John Keeble
Sometimes a Great Notion	Ken Kesey
A Sweetness to the Soul	Jane Kirkpatrick
Hole in the Sky: A Memoir	William Kittredge
At the End of the Car Line	Ben Hur Lampman
The Lathe of Heaven	Ursula K. LeGuin
Winterkill	Craig Lesley
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
Of Wolves and Men	Barry Holstun Lopez
Ranald MacDonald: The Narrative of his Early Life on 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, Edited by William S. Lewis and Naojiro Murakami
A New Life	Bernard Malamud
The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems	Edwin Markham
A Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940	Elizabeth McLagan
Life Amongst the Modocs: Unwritten History	Joaquin Miller
Tule Lake	Edward Miyakawa
Mansions in the Cascades	Anne Shannon Monroe and Elizabeth Lambert Wood
Gentle Ben	Walt Morey
An Arrow in the Earth: General Joel Palmer and the Indians of Oregon	Terence O’Donnell
Fight Club	Chuck Palahniuk
Nehalem Tillamook Tales	Told by Clara Pearson, Recorded by Elizabeth Derr Jacobs, Edited by Melville Jacobs
A Long Way to Fisco: A Folk Adventure Novel of California and Oregon in 1852	Alfred Powers
A Saga of a Paper Mill	Laurence Pratt
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 Douglas A. Puter, in collaboration with Horace Stevens
Coyote Was Going There: Indian Literature of the Oregon Country	Compiled and edited by Jarold Ramsey
The Road to Zena	Joel Redon
Insurgent Mexico	John Reed
Nordi’s Gift	Clyde Rice
Ruined Cities	Vern Rutsala
Beyond Deserving	Sandra Scofield
Heckletooth 3	David Shetzline
The Gold-Gated West: Songs and Poems	Samuel L. Simpson
Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems	Gary Snyder
Having Everything Right: Essays of Place	Kim Stafford
Traveling Through the Dark	William Stafford
Letters from an Oregon Ranch	“Katharine” (Louise Stephens)
Big Jim Turner	James Stevens
Departure	Janet Stevenson
Cathlamet on the Columbia: Recollections of the Indian People and Short Stories of Early Pioneer Days in the Valley of the Lower Columbia	Thomas Nelson Strong
Listening for Coyote: A Walk Across Oregon’s Wilderness	William L. Sullivan
The Northwest Coast, or, Three Years’ Residence in Washington Territory	James G. Swan
The Loop: A Tale of the Oregon County	Thirteen Oregon Authors: Charles Alexander, Robert Ormond Case, Kathleen MacNeal Clarke, Dean Collins, Sabra Conner, Anthony Euwer, Major John D. Guthrie, Sheba May Hargreaves, Theodore Acland Harper, Stewart H. Holbrook, Alexander Hull, Harold Bradley Say, Lillian Porter Say
Stepping Westward: The Long Search for Home in the Pacific Northwest	Sallie Tisdale
Marking the Magic Circle: An Intimate Geography	George Venn
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	Frances Fuller Victor
Fiddlers’ Green, or the Strange Adventure of Tommy Lawn; A Tale of the Great Divide of the Sailormen	Albert Wetjen
The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart	Opal Whiteley
Beyond the Garden Gate	Sophus Keith Winther
The Canoe and the Saddle: Adventures Among the Northwestern Rivers and Forests and Isthmania	Theodore Winthrop
Collected Poems	Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Edited by Sara Bard Field
Seven Hands, Seven Hearts	Elizabeth Woody
Bat 6	Virginia Euwer Wolff
Exhibit sponsored by: Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission