In 1845, Hoy Flournoy emigrated from Missouri to Douglas County and a year later joined a Jesse Applegate survey party that slowly moved south for six months.

Free mail delivery came to Klamath Falls in September 1916.

The physical history of Northern California’s coastal redwood region is linked to the human populations that have interacted with it, from pre-contact times to the present.

Although Jim Holland founded Holland, Ore., around 1877, the person who really built the town was Jack Smock, who arrived 18 years later.

The Klamath Falls Evening Herald reported 100 years ago how a doctor saved a woman bitten by a rabid coyote by treating her with blood from intentionally rabies-infected rabbits.

Oregon was the last state photographer Dorothea Lange visited in the 1930s as a field investigator for the Farm Security Administration. She was assigned to document the problems of the Great Depression in the Pacific Northwest.

The Southern Oregon Sled Dog Club staged races in Lakeview, the Castle Lakes Nordic Center, McCloud, and Sterling Creek Meadows. The club also put volunteer time and energy into organizing the Diamond Lake Sled Dog Race.

One file of newspaper articles at the Southern Oregon Historical Society Research Library in Medford, Ore., is labeled “Romance,” an ironic misnomer as the folder contains stories of murder and suicide resulting from bad love affairs.

In the summer of 1932, America's already famous author and sportsman, Zane Grey, made his first camp along the North Umpqua River in Douglas County, Ore. His guide on the river was Joe DeBernardi, a resident of the little community downstream known as Glide. Among the party accompanying him were his son, Romer Grey, and Romer's motion picture cameramen.

In 1871, Willis White and two companions responded to a San Francisco newspaper ad that read, “Wanted, River-Drivers Rogue River.”