Zc74 - Oregon

Yale Collection of Western Americana

Scope

Use for works about Oregon and the following topics:

  • Works on the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana west of the continental divide, and British Columbia) for the period 1769-1859
  • Class works on the Pacific Northwest on the periods before 1769 and after 1859 in Zc70
  • Joint occupation of Oregon
  • Northwest boundary (west of Rockies)
  • Oregon trail (class here accounts of the entire trail; works that describe the trail in a specific state, class with that state)
  • Rogue River War (1855-1856)
  • Yakima War (1855-1858)
  • Modoc War (1873)
  • Hudson’s Bay Co. and Puget Sound Agricultural Co. claims
  • Military department of Oregon (the Columbia) in Zc70
  • United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). Class in Zc74 844wix A11-99
  • Biographies of  Hall J. Kelley, and the Whitmans

Example:

Wallace, Joseph. Sketch of the life and public services of Edward D. Baker, United States Senator from Oregon … , 1870.

Zc74 Work relating to Oregon
870wa Year of publication of first edition followed by first two letters of main entry
Classification of related materials to the United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842)
Zc74.844wix.A12 1826
A13 U.S. Navy dept. Survey of Northwest coast
A15 1828. New Bedford. Citizens. Petition…
A16 U.S. Congress. Explore South Seas… 
A17 Nantucket. Citizens. Memorial 
A18  
A19 1833. Fanning. Memorial… 
A20 1834. Salem Eest India Marine Society. Memorial 
A21 1835. U.S. Congress. Explore Pacific Ocean… 
A211 Reynolds. Pacific ocean and South seas
A22 1836. Hamer. Speech 
A221 Hamer. Speech 
A23 Reynolds. Address 
A24 U.S. Congress. Comm. on naval affairs. Report… 
A25 1837. U.S. Navy Dept. Exploring Expedition…
A251 U.S. Naval Lyceum. Exploring expedition
A26 1838. Fanning. Voyages to the South Seas… 
A27 Reynolds. Exploring expedition.
A28-A29  
A30 1839
A31 Samoan laws 
A32 1840. Elliott. Sermon… 
A33-A35  
A36 1841. Poinsett. Discourse…
A37 Reynolds. Pacific and Indian Oceans…
A38-A42  
A43 1842. Wilkes. Defence… 
A44 Wilkes. Synopsis of the U.S. exploring expedition… 
A44-A46  
A47 1843. U.S. Congress. Report of the committee of naval affairs… 
A48 Palmer. Thulia
A49-A50  
A51 Dana. A brief account… 
A52  
A53 1844. Sawyer. Autobiography… 
A54 U.S. Congress. Comm. on Naval Affairs. USS Peacock
A54-A56  
A57 1845
A58  
A59 1846. Felton. Scientific results of the exploring expedition… 
A60 Gould Expedition 
A61  
A62 U.S. Congress. Joint committee on the library. Report… 
A63   
A64 1847. Clark. Lights and shadows… 
A65  
A66 U.S. exploring expedition. Memorial of the officers… 
A662 U.S. Congress. Report of the Comm. on the Library… 
A63-A68  
A69 1848. Pinkney . Memorial of R. F . Pinkney… 
A70  
A71 1849. Dana. Notes on Upper California… 
A72 1850. Jenkins. U. S. exploring expeditions 
A73 U.S, Laws, statutes, etc. A bill to indentify the officers … 
A74  
A75 1852. Colvocoresses. Four years in a government exploring expedition… 
A76-A78  
A79 1855. Agassis. On ichthyological fauna… 
A80-A86  
A87 1864. Wilkes, Defence of Com. Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. … 
A88-A93  
A94 Erskine. Twenty years before the mast
A95-A97  
A98 1926. Wilkes. Diary of Wilkes in the Northwest… 
A99  

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