Sources

Research Sources –  1965 – 2012

Publications

  • An Illustrated History of Central Oregon Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, Wheeler, Crook, Lake and Klamath Counties, State of Oregon. Spokane, WA Western Historical Publishing Company, 1905
  • An Illustrated History of Klickitat, Yakima & Kittitas Counties, WA. 1904
  • Bailey, Mary Helen Graham. Story of Adventure.
  • Ballou, Robert. Early Klickitat Valley Days, 1938.
  • Bancroft. History of Oregon, Volume I.
  • Barber, Betty (Lamborn). Our Lamborns in Sherman County, Sherman County: For the Record, vol. 20, no. 1, 2002
  • Belshe, Bertha. They Paved the Way. Portland, OR: Millcross Litho, Inc., 1976
  • Clark & Tiller, The Terrible Trail, the Meek Cutoff of 1845
  • Drake, Anita. Wasco County Oregon Marriages 1854-1900
  • Due, John F. & French, Giles. Rails to the Mid-Columbia Wheatlands: The Columbia Southern and Great Southern Railroads and the Development of Sherman and Wasco Counties, Oregon; University Press of America 1979.
  • French, Giles. The Golden Land, A History of Sherman County, Oregon. Oregon Historical Society, 1958
  • French, Giles. These Things We Note
  • Kaseberg, Sherry. Gleanings of the History of Sherman County Methodists. 1977
  • Kaseberg, Sherry. Church Records, Methodist Episcopal Church, Sherman County, Oregon, Vicinity of Wasco. Wasco, OR: Bulletin of Genealogical Forum of Portland, OR, 1972
  • Kaseberg, Sherry. Sherman County Place Names, Streets and Roads, 3rd edition
  • Kaseberg, Sherry. Yesterday’s Roll Call, Statistical Data & Genealogical Facts from Cemeteries in Baker, Sherman & Umatilla Counties, Oregon. Genealogical Forum of Portland, Oregon, Inc. 1970
  • Lockley, Fred: Conversations With Pioneer Women
  • Lockley, Fred: The History of the Columbia River Valley
  • James Nesmith’s Diary of 1843. Oregon Historical Quarterly, 1906
  • Sherman County: For the Record. Sherman County Historical Society 1983-2012
  • Sherman County: For the Record. Brock Diary
  • Sherman County Marriages, Sherman County: For the Record
  • Masiker, Carson C. – newspaper accounts
  • McNeal, History of Wasco County
  • Moore, Patricia (French) Moore, Moro
  • Morrow, Edwin, El Cajon, CA
  • Nielsen, Lawrence E. and Donald S. Galbreath. Oregon’s Fading Past
  • Oregon Death Index
  • Oregon Donation Land Claim Abstracts
  • Price, A.J. – newspaper accounts
  • Quinn, Quinn & King: Handbook for the Deschutes River Canyon
  • Sherman County: For the Record, Sherman County Historical Society 1983-2012
  • The Dalles Daily Chronicle: 14 June 1902
  • The Dufur Bee
  • The Grant County News: 1907
  • The Moro Leader
  • The People’s Republic
  • The Sherman County Journal
  • The Sherman County Observer
  • The Times-Journal
  • The Times-Mountaineer, The Dalles 1887
  • The Wasco News, 1907
  • U.S. Census, Klickitat County, WA 1880
  • Townsend, Homer J.E. & Patricia A. Scarola. Marriage Records of Klickitat County, Washington 1867-1917. Gorham Printing, Rochester, WA, 1997
  • von Borstel, Millie Holmes. Our Heritage
  • Washington State Census, Klickitat County: 1883, 1885

Personal Interviews and Correspondence

  • Bruckert, Helen (White)
  • Cady, Barbara, West Linn1996
  • Coats, Chet and Reatha, Wasco
  • Donnell, Eileen
  • Eaton, Miles
  • Fields, Mark, Salem
  • French, Giles. Publisher, author, legislator, historian. Moro 1965-1970
  • French, Lela (Barnum), Moro
  • Hailey, Imogene (Johnson), Moro
  • Hansen, Julia (Woods), Portland
  • Hilderbrand, Gordon. Wasco 1966
  • Phil Hirl
  • Huck, Bessie. Parkdale 1992
  • Jaeger, Joan (Eakin)
  • Kaseberg, Albert C., Wasco
  • Kaseberg, Mary Evelyn (Morrow),The Dalles 1966
  • Knighten, Donalda, Moro
  • Laidlaw, Gladys (Morrow). Salem 1966
  • McLachlan, Mollie (Robinson), Moro
  • Peugh, Gertrude, Ivalou & Esther, Wasco 1965-1970
  • Ramsey, Daphne (Hon), Stevenson
  • Richelderfer, Beatrice,Wasco 1966
  • Sanders, Chris, Kettle Falls, WA transcribed newspaper obituaries
  • Siscel, James, Lynnwood, WA1996-2008
  • Smith, Emma Jean (Eakin), Grass Valley
  • Wasco United Methodist Church. Methodist Circuit Records, Wasco, OR
  • Washington State Census, Klickitat County: 1883, 1885
  • White, Mabel (Cothran), Wasco, 1980
  • Whiteman, Sandra, Portland, 2008
  • Woods, Ernest L., Moro
  • Woods, James G.
  • Woods, Margaret (McLachlan), Dufur 1965-1970

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow