personal narratives

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Margery Bailey's handwritten diary. Entries begin on January 1st and end on May 29, about a month before her funeral on June 24th. Margery Bailey notes the weather and writes mostly about days at work, mentioning various papers and projects she is working on at Stanford University. On weekends she writes about home life. Also included is Margery Bailey's funeral announcement.

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These materials are related to the diary of John M. Mickey. Two documents are transcripts of his diary, and a third is a description of the diary and its history. Mickey was one of the early pioneers in the Jacksonville, Oregon territory.

Abstract This collection consists of manuscripts, documents, miscellanea, and sound recordings relating primarily to the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Oregon, and secondarily to the Confederated Tribes of the Yakama Nation of Toppenish, Washington. This collection contains one box of manuscript materials relating mostly to the Yakama Indians of Washington state. Eleven boxes in the collection deal with Warm Springs, and make this collection extremely useful for research on the Confederated...

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Jeffery LaLande worked as an independent historian outside of his Forest Service career, and this collection resulted from his independent research. These papers include correspondence with researchers on various topics; files from essays, articles, book reviews, and books he has written; and his peer reviews, requested by various editors, of manuscripts submitted for publication.

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The Dennis M. Powers papers contain research materials including interviews and notes used in the authorship of several books

Scope and Contents L-43 "Oral History Interview with Zane Grey Smith," as part of the Northern Region [USFS] Retirees Association 'Living History Project,' Missoula, Montana. Early in his career, Zane Smith served as a junior forester on the Union Creek (later Prospect) Ranger District and then timber management assistant at Butte Falls Ranger District. Zane Smith went on to become Regional Forester for the Southwestern Region, California. His recollections include some memories about his career in the USFS...

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L-23 Papers and early Forest Service recollections by Smith C. Bartrum, Roseburg, Oregon (40+p). Folder includes various memoirs, correspondence, and official documents dealing with Bartrum's career as a Forest Reserve (1901-1905) and National Forest (1906-07) supervisor. Bartrum was the supervisor of a portion of what later became the Rogue River National Forest. [RR-SNF/SOU-HL]

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These files are largely composed of correspondence that contains personal remembrances by retired Forest Service personnel, and local historical accounts; it also includes records dealing with past Forest Service history projects. It does not include the transcripts of the Forest's oral-history interviews with former F.S. employees.