Siuslaw Pioneer Books
"In 1920, a gathering of old friends met at the home of Mrs. Clara Haring in honor of her 66th birthday. A plan was made to perpetuate the memory of the men and women who laid the foundation for the cultural history of the Siuslaw region. The Siuslaw Pioneer Association was formed and Mrs. Clara Haring was elected president.
“Now an attempt is made to start a year-book. The year-book will try to describe the life of the Siuslaw pioneer in his primitive surroundings and in endeavors which directly and indirectly pushed forward the fulfillment of the pioneer’s hope that mingled with promise in the echo of his song.”
From The Siuslaw Pioneer 1947
The results of their efforts are the 35 volumes of “The Siuslaw Pioneer” shown below.
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1947 Roll Call First Meeting Mrs. Clara Haring Siuslaw Bay, Poem Constitution of Association Our Cover Picture 27th Annual Meeting The White Rhododendron If I Could – Poem Frank and Elizabeth Knowles Indian Prayer Mrs. Teresa Alexander “Maple Leaf” Desired George Melvin Miller Sea Gulls, Poem Early Growth of Florence 1880-1911 Many Attend 27th Meeting Arrival on Siuslaw in ’85 The Old Dead Trees Launching the Luella Charles E. Behnke Notes from County Seat Leaders in Enterprises Battle on the Siuslaw Colter Founded Glenada A.R. Buttolph, Surveyor Appreciation |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1948 Two Little Girls Over the Old Siuslaw Road The Skiff Was Barely Above Water Ten Mile News Letter By 'Tsiltcoos' Fiddle Creek' Tells of Fiddle Creek Driving First Schuster Cow Home Frank and Elizabeth Knowles Capt. H.P. Johnson Early Resident Vandenburgs Pioneers of North Fork Hunting 'Gooey Ducks' High Waters and the Great Slide The Flood Took Lives and Homes Karnowskys Siuslaw Pioneers Pioneer Days, Happy Days Capt. Steear 20 years on the River George E. Prescott Pioneer Teamster Tragedy at the Mouth of Suislaw Idyl of Florence, Oregon Memory of 1928 Picnic at Sutton |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1949 Point Terrace The Cover Drawing First Rhododendron Festival Siuslaw’s Own Bonny Blooms Once There Was a Garden Dry Yeast The Mapleton School Little Barefoot Tracks Schools of Yesterday Literary Society Mrs. Clara Haring The New town of Glenada City of Glenada Pioneer Recipe: Carrot Pie First Cream Separators First Storekeeper First Mapleton Hotel Oh, for a Fiddle Tsiltcoos Talk Who Guards Secrets of Roman Nose Cassidy Hotel The Siuslaw Valley Heceta Items The Hurd Home in Florence Acme Houses on Stilts David L. Munsell Early Day Post Offices Florence in 1914 The Ways of Love Mighty at the Bat |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1950 - Travel Transportation It Takes Grit Tilden and Beecher Rocks House Joint Memorial No.3 We Make a Christmas Trip A Shopping Tour River Travel Ol' Man River Helped All Siuslaw Our First Day of Pioneering The Casey Holman Family Came Gold Safley Hotel E.B. Miller Comes to the Siuslaw Honeymoon Home by the Ocean Fiddle Creek Story The House of Severy |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1951 – Siuslaw Forest Service Siuslaw Forest Service Work Saddle Mountain Picture Five Years Pioneering Letter From Neff Supervisor Shelley Life at Lookout Station Tree Planting Crew Ranger Kerby Harvey Welty Forest Service in War Starting to Pioneer Miles and Scott Families Queen Rhododendron The Furnishes Come Pioneer of Two States Travel Modes in 1892 Eugene-Florence Staging About Old Man Siuslaw My First Trip to Siuslaw Siuslaw Bay Years Ago Never Worked Harder Towed Like a Log |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1952 – The Siuslaw Indians Harney, Jeff, Jane Barney Basket, Fish Trap, Gayou Metcalf, Drew, Buchanon Mortar, Pestles, Bears The Mountains of Siuslaw Traces of Early Man Jasper Gibson Family Dan Quixote Johnson Farwell! Monarch of Forest First Authentic Record Wild Hogs Gargniers and Fort Umpqua Gargnier, John, Tilly Tronson The Sweet Family The Austins Sein and Rack on North Fork First Settlers on Siuslaw |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1953 – Pioneer Preachers Siuslaw Churches Memories of Pioneer Church Rev. Robinson Came as Missionary Son Tells of Pioneer Home Established Six Churches Church Announcements The New Church – Poem Ministers of the Siuslaw Listed Thomas A. Yost “Jen Yates” Devotion Notes from Edith Yates McClure Rockport Sunday School Little White Church – Poem Fiddle Creek Church Services Lake Creek Church “Readin’, Ritin’ and Rithmetick” Singing Schools Record of Portage School |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1954 - Fishing Pioneer of 1879 Mrs. Harwood on Fishing Life Saving Station Pioneers Made Fishing Nets Fishing in Fall of ' 92 Record Salmon Run Canneries on the Siuslaw Hurd Cannery Burned The Sea Against Ships Story of Four Whales Florence Whale Goes to the Valley Jetty Development Heroism of John Bergman William Bernhardt River Song The Wilkes Family |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1955 |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1956 - Mapleton |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1957 I Carry the Torch Pioneer Recipes Four doctors of the Siuslaw Jules Gargnier Trapping in the Siuslaw Country Old Covered Bridges The Schreuder House The Covered Bridge A Pioneer Funeral Jetty Work in 1910-11 Jefferson Harney |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1958 Captain William A. Cox Map of Florence Poem – The Pioneers William and Nancy Palmer Way to Prevent Log Losses False April on China Creek Sweet Creek School Boarding Around Mr. and Mrs. Levi Hollenbeck Harrison Gray Came in 1884 A Queer Request Siuslaw Telephone Office Archie and Margie Knowles Map Showing Early Settlers’ Places Poem – Wanted Ben Hur Lampman on Siltcoos The Dukhobors Came The Old Shoemaker of Mapleton Notes on Early Day Florence Pioneer Association Meetings |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1959 Robert Hugo and Mary Anne Bernhardt Wind in the Riggin’ Mr. and Mrs. Philip E. Jackson Our Journey from Washington Henry Hudson Barrett and Family Indian Names Jean Sharman Tragedy Backward Glances More About Churches The Houghton Cheese Factory Florence – Mapleton Road Razor Clams Siuslaw’s Centennial Pictures Our Great Western Lane A Dream That Turned Into a Nightmare |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1960 Our Siuslaws Our first Settlers Witch Doctors Home Town – Poem Siuslaw Dreamer – George Melvin Miller Mapleton Post Office Wanted – wife Scandinavian Ladies Aid Mapleton of Old – Poem First Florence Pavement First Mayor Lane County Foghorn at Night – Poem Siuslaw Dulcimer The John Beck Family The Siuslaw Mail How They Got Here |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1961 Frank Drew Pictures Friend Tilly of the Morris Family Mail Along the Coast in Early Days Florence Gets a Post Office The John Doster Family Moving to Oregon From the Midwest Hay Boxes, a Boon to Pioneer Women Moose on the Siuslaw The Talking Stick Coat of Arms Timber Woodsmen Speak a Different Language Aquatint – poem Oregon Pioneers – poem Shipping News Indian Corn Legend My First Teaching Experience Flossie Chapman Huntington Treachery of Our Coast Line The Funks and Moffetts Come to the Siuslaw |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1970 – 50th Anniversary Edition Forward Oregon Coast Indians Clara Gamble Haring Glenada Changes Floundering of the Fawn Leisure on the Farm – poem The Lowe Family First Girl Born The Old and the New – poem The Flying Machine Rhododendron Festival 1914 J.M. Martin Family Glenada’s Railroad My Dear Old Home – poem |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1973 Maple Creek Homesteads Road Work 1909 Mead Brothers (Walton and William) The William McCrae Family The Charley Stevens Family A Trip to France - Poem Gone But Not Forgotten |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1975 – Pioneer Museum Dedication Acknowledgements Siuslaw Pioneer Museum Entrance to Pioneer Museum Curator of Museum Officers of the Siuslaw Pioneer Association History of Museum Eileen Huntington Founder's Plaque Donors to Museum History of Building Natural History Indian Dan Indian Crafts Indian Dugout Canoe Early Arrivals: Cradle of Archie Knowles Early Arrivals: Rope Springs and Quilt Early Arrivals: Munsell Chairs Early Arrivals: Dress of the Period Women's Work: Kitchen of Pioneer Home Women's Work: Living and Dining Area Men's Work: Tools Used by the Siuslaw Pioneers Recreation: Organ Recreation: Bass Drum History of Siuslaw Pioneer Association Constitution of Siuslaw Pioneer Association Roll Call of the First Meeting of Pioneer Association Clara Haring Margie Y. Knowles Siuslaw Pioneer Association Meetings Museum and the Community Looking Ahead |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1977 – The Story of Sweet Creek Story of Sweet Creek - Dedication Story of Sweet Creek - Forward Memories of Sweet Creek Point Terrace Post Office Sweet Creek as I Knew It – Clara Sweet Life of Zara T. Sweet and Family My Life Story - Clara Sweet Charles Tuttle Ellingson Family Andrews Hartley Story Chester Allen Family Sweet and Staehnke Families Anderson Brothers – Charlie and John Alfred and Evelyn Fir The Dean Story The George Johnson Story The Rufus Johnson Story The Sweet Creek Cemetery Wheeler Family History Jack and Pearl Gilmore The Point Terrace Community Club Point Terrace Community Club The Sweet Creek School Sweet Creek School - 1933 Wilson Carey Family It Never Happens Here Columbus Day Storm – 1962 Winter of the Big Snow – 1968 Upper Sweet Creek Upper Sweet Creek Story Mitchell Rose The Goodwin Family Upper Sweet Creek Cemetery Upper Sweet Creek Today Siuslaw Fisheries Late Arrivals On Sweet Creek |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1978 – The Story of Indian Creek Dedication Forward Author Indian Creek – poem Map of Early Settlers on Indian Creek Map of early Settlers on West Fork Memories of Indian Creek Rolla Phelps Story Jonathan Phelps Family Partial History of Beers family David Beers Story Adolph Beers Story George Beers Story Mead Brothers (Walton and William) Kirby Brothers (Cecil and Roy) Brezee Family Thomas Agree Family Benjamin Jeans Family Oscar Wheeler Story Jay Wilkinson Story Indian Creek Cemetery Memories of Indian Creek – poem Andrew Gibson Story The Cougar that Closed a School Reading, ‘riting, ‘rithmetic Recreation War Clouds Aftermath The Blue Butterfly Rainrock Rainrock Store Sawmilling on Indian Creek Maderis’ Tragedy Summary Conclusion |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1979 – Fiddle Creek Forward By Historian Picture of Fiddle Creek Dedication to Pioneers of Fiddle Creek Author – Dan Miles Story of Fiddle Creek – Historian Map of Fiddle Creek How Fiddle Creek Got its Name Early Beginnings of the Miles Family Westward HO! The Big Fire The Lord Giveth, The Lord Taketh Away Family of Daniel Miles the First My Early Life Hardships First Homesteaders Hunting on Fiddle Creek Early Day Transportation My Tale of City Life Ada Grange No. 570 The Railroad Comes Logging Navy Days Love, Courtship and Marriage Conclusion |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1980 – The Story of Deadwood Creek Dedication Foreword Deadwood Post Office Alpha Post Office Pioneers of Deadwood Creek Residents of Deadwood Creek, Yesterday & Today Map of Deadwood Showing Location of Homes Deadwood Church Established Picture of Reverend Albert Robinson New Church at Deadwood Schools How the Wilbur Family Came to Oregon Fines and Mary Jane Taylor Luther and Sadie Prindel Charles and Matilda Acheson Rebecca Acheson Andy Acheson Sadie Acheson James and Mary Johnston David Hunter Family Gerhard Wilbrand Steinhauer Ray Gordon Family Leonard Brooks Family The Hunzicker Family A Brief History of Alpha Farm Louis Swanson Family Charles Acheson - Genealogy Leonard Henry Brooks - Genealogy John Downing - Genealogy William Henry Harris - Genealogy David Hunter - Genealogy Lawrence Lamb - Genealogy Arthur George Pope - Genealogy Thomas Pope - Genealogy William Henry Potterf - Genealogy Luther Levi Earl Prindel – Genealogy Gerhard Wilbrand Steinhauer - Genealogy Helgan Rudolph Swanson - Genealogy Louis Swanson (Lars Swensen in Sweden) - Genealogy Fines Washington Taylor - Genealogy Winsor W. Wells - Genealogy Belden Henry Wilbur - Genealogy Incomplete Family Records - Genealogy |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1981 – The Story of Knowles Creek Knowles Creek The Knowles Family of Knowles Creek Route F The Lloyd Saubert Family The Tom Dostor Family Mapleton School The Restless The Life of Ed and Lois Goschie on Knowles Creek Knowles Creek Fish Hatchery Knowles Creek Garbage Dump The Don Johnsons Earl Boushey Family The Art Graham Story The Henry Carte r Story The William Milbrett Family The Harold Reeve Story The George Camp Story |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1982 – The Story of North Fork Creek Cover - North Fork at Portage Dedication Forward Author Map of North Fork Oregon Coast Indians My Friend Andrew Charles The North Fork Country First Family on North Fork The Barn on the Haring Farm Life on the Haring Farm Sweet Summertime Blackberries The Orchard Soap Making Picnic at the Beach Honey for Breakfast The Dairy at Haring Ranch The Bay Family The McCornack Families Items from Eugene R. McCornack's Diary A.R. Buttolph The William Morris Family The Archie Meadows Family The Henry Landschoft Family The Early Vanderburgs Tom and Prudence Safley The Berryman H. Russell Family I Remember Our Home on North Fork Harry Benson Family Ralph and Elsie Johnson The Clarence Hubbard Family A Letter from Rosa Woosley (Phillips) Hubbard The Will Smith Family Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jensen The Corneilus Family The Portage School The Portage School District 53, 1908 Bob and Lilly Bay H.P. Johnson Answers Last Call Captain Horace P. Johnson Family The Chapman Family Ben and Lula Shirley Family The Warren and Ella Vanderburg Story The Bower Family Childhood Days on the North Fork The Lafayette Akerley Family Arthur and Lizzie Jackson Family How Creeks got Thier Names A Visit with Clarence and Carrie Akerley Haring Pioneer Cemetery - North Fork Cemetery A Tribute The Masonic Cemetery on the hill at the Mouth of North Fork Eichler-Benner Family The Bowling Family Frank Collard and Clinton Smith Norman Dick, Sr. Forrest and Jessie Francisco on North Fork Living on the North Fork Millard and Lettie Phillips Family Apron Applause Hans Peterson family The Beach Brothers Ed and Satie Watkins The Barnett Family Henry and Pearl Holden The Johnson-Frasier Families on North Fork Laura and Dick Coryell Flossie and Clair Hinkson Fannie and Hazen Johnson Delona and Jay Johnson Loa Faye and Ernest Phillips Beryl and Storm Frasier Eunice and Cynce Frasier The Eclipse of the Sun What Did We Get From The Wilderness |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1985 – ACME |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1989 – Story of the Frank Knowles Family Move to Siuslaw Indians Homestead Relatives Arrive Life on the River |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1993 Florence 1893-1993 What we Know About Chief Osceola Glenada School 1922, 23, 24 The Siuslaw in 1891 Fiddle Creek Valley Holds a Rich History How Fiddle Creek Received its Name My Recollections of Booth Divers Find Ruins Myth The Herrings Move From N. Dakota to Oregon By Land and By Sea A Birthright For a Mess of Pottage The Ole Riis Story |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1994 – Articles from the West and Oar Mr. Morse Clams Mary's Chicken Ranch Wasn't that way at all Three Hours to- Mrs. Rufus Stonefield Lover's Lane Good Pioneering Versions (Florence Name) More Memories (George Melvin Miller) Origin of Naming of Florence Pleasing the Patrons -school teacher High Waters - 1890 State Gas Tax I'm a Man Heard on the Street -building the 'Robarts' Pioneer Records Separators a Fad Deepening the Channel A Little Early - 4th of July At Glenada Head Old Morris Hotel Our Library Channels Our Climate Bank of Florence Buried Treasure Plenty to Eat The Best Ever - Stories Tildon Hotel Spared Twenty-one Years Ago - Pioneer Association Seaton Pioneer Homestead - E.B. Miller Delivering the Mail |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1995 - Schools Early Lane County School History The Riverview School Riverview School By Eugene Helgerson More School Adventures of Edward Jensen School Boats All-Night Joy Ride on "Minnie Mitchell" Teaching Methods Survey Little Road-Builders of Chickahominy School College Hill High School Boatin to School at Booth The Glenada "Coop" Wm.(Mike) Kyle" Florence Schools My Early Schools by Joey Hatch Portage School Happenings Better Pay For Female Teachers Cape Creek School |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1996 – Tales, Tails and Trails Travel Before 1880 Travel to Florence 1880-1916 Stagecoach Travel Stories to Tell by Those Who Knew |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1997 - Granges Introduction Acknowledgements Our Grange A Question Early History of the Grange Granges in the Siuslaw Area The Grange and the Siuslaw Pioneer Association The Grange Today An answer Addenda Notes Sources |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1998 - Logging Herbert Miller Milo Johnson Dan Miles Walt Hintington Logging the Old Way Dangers in Logging Index of Local area Mills |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 1999 - ACME Introduction Acme in 1921 Industrial & Social hub in Early Days Memories of Acme More About the Helgerson Family Bridges Grade School - Acme Or. - 1920 The Gibbs Family Childhood Memories:Waite Family Warner Waite's Family The Mailboats Captain L.A. Jensen The Sanborn Family |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 2000 – Route F in the Making Introduction Early Construction History from Minutes of Route F Committee Newspaper Accounts of Route F Route F Committee Members |
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Index Siuslaw Pioneer 2001 – Before Route F A Trip to Heceta Beach from Eugene - 1912 Mapleton and Road Blasting Mailboats on the Siuslaw River Sailboats on the Siuslaw Some History of the Jetties Quarries used in Building the Jetties |
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