Jeffrey LaLande gathered or was given the items in this collection largely over the course of the past fifteen years. He collected the items because of his personal and academic interest in the subjects, especially far right, political and religious extremist movements, as well as other miscellaneous aspects of southwestern Oregon’s very recent/current political and cultural history.

The collection covers LaLande’s work beginning in 1982 and contains books, articles, reports, and other items published by LaLande, as well as his correspondence and research materials. In addition to regional cultural resource inventories, archaeological surveys, and environmental histories, he is known among historians for his research on the early explorer Peter Skene Ogden.