Skip to main content

Atwood, Kay (Katherine Conlee)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1942 - 2014

Biography

Local historian and author Kay Atwood, who has written extensively about the Southern Oregon region. Atwood’s books include Illahe: The Story of Settlement in the Rogue River Canyon, Mill Creek Journal: Ashland Oregon, 1850-1860, and Chaining Oregon: Surveying the Public Lands of the Pacific Northwest, 1851-1855. Her many other books and articles explore the settlement and development of communities in Southern Oregon, and include National Register nominations, cultural resource inventories, and environmental and organizational histories.

Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:

Ownership of Whiskey Creek cabin, Rogue River canyon, bulk: 1916-1972

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS025:04.05
Scope and Contents Note about Holly Peake and publications about it; Sketch of Cy Whiteneck, Whiskey Creek; color a city by a sea; cut out newspaper article from June 2, 1945 about George H. Holly Peake; Cy Whiteneck’s cabin in the woods, 1916; letter to Louise J. Nichols from San Heaney of the United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management in regards to her occupying a cabin in Whiskey Creek for a set time to remove her property, dated March 1973; appraisal Report from the United States...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1916-1972

People and the River, volume I, 1995

 File — Box: 32, Folder: 01
Identifier: MSS025:04.27
Scope and Contents

People and the River. A History of the Human Occupation of the Middle Course of the Rogue River of Southwestern Oregon Volume I. Kay Atwood, Dennis J. Gray

Dates: 1995

People and the River, volume I, 1995

 File — Box: 32, Folder: 02
Identifier: MSS025:04.28
Scope and Contents

People and the River. A History of the Human Occupation of the Middle Course of the Rogue River of Southwestern Oregon. Volume I. Kay Atwood, Dennis Gray

Dates: 1995

Rogue River Canyon history, bulk: 1975

 File — Box: 29, Folder: 05
Identifier: MSS025:04.11
Scope and Contents Handwritten letter to Mr. Ken Mack and the Rogue River Recreational Dept. (Bob Alward, Tom Abbett, Doug Henry) from Dennis C. McHarness regarding Mule Creek – West Fort and the Mule Pack Trail; pages from the Navig study Kay Atwood conducted, all primary research; handwritten letter to Kay Atwood from Lee Root regarding her book Illahe; handwritten letter to the Topographical Office dated January 13th, 1859; written description on the history of gold in the Rogue River Valley titled “Of...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1975

Filtered By

  • Subject: Rogue River Valley (Klamath County-Curry County, Or.) X

Additional filters:

Subject
Photographs 13
History, Local 9
research notes 9
Historic buildings 7
Authorship 1