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    [Dedication of Grand Mound Oregon Trail marker]
    Creation Date: 1916
    Catalog ID: 2014.0.13
    Photograph of the dedication ceremony for the Oregon Trail marker at Grand Mound, WA, Thurston County. We are looking out at the crowd. In the near right is the edge of a platform, with a chair on it. A crowd of men, women, and children is observing the ceremony. A horse and carriage are partly visible among the crowd.
  • Tourists old Oregon Trail and Columbia River highway information and guide book: Rock Springs, Wyoming, to Portland and Seaside, Oregon
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    Tourists old Oregon Trail and Columbia River highway information and guide book: Rock Springs, Wyoming, to Portland and Seaside, Oregon
    Creation Date: 1924
    Catalog ID: 1997.1.160
    Call Number: EPH/979.784/OL1t/1924
    76 page illustrated guidebook (23.2x10 cm.) for motorists retracing the old Oregon Trail. Includes maps for each section and detailed driving directions, from Rock Springs, WY to Portland and Seaside, OR. Published in 1924 (4th edition). Includes folding map of Idaho between pages 24-25. Cover in black, white, and red. "Compliments of Dewey Palace Hotel...Nampa, Idaho." Ephemera.
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    Helen's recipe collection
    Creation Date: 2010
    Catalog ID: 2012.1.14
    Call Number: OVERSIZE/641.5/H366r/2010
    20 page color illustrated book (28x22.5 cm.) consisting of recipes collected by Helen Miller, 2010. Includes family photographs and brief biographical sketch relating to the Goddard family and the Oregon Trail. Plastic coil binding.
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    Wagons to Californey, 1864: the story of Adam Edward Ludy 1831-1910
    Creation Date: 1995
    Catalog ID: 1996.81.1
    Call Number: OVERSIZE/979.735/Ar57w/1995
    138 p.; 28 cm.
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    Overland from Indiana to Oregon: the Dinwiddie journal
    Creation Date: 1928
    Catalog ID: 2000.104.45
    Call Number: PAM/979.5121/Ov2d/1928
    14 p.; 24 cm.
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    Oregon historic trails report
    Creation Date: c1998
    Catalog ID: 2000.166.1
    Call Number: OVERSIZE/979.5121/Or3or/1998
    249 p.; maps; 28 cm.; Includes bibliographical references and fold. map for each trail described
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    The gold rush trail and the road to Oregon
    Creation Date: [1963]
    Catalog ID: 2004.106.1.18
    Call Number: 979.5121/W388g/1963
    224 p.; ill., ports, maps, facsims.; 24 cm.; Bibliography: p. [219]-221
  • [Life membership certificate for William P. Bonney]
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    [Life membership certificate for William P. Bonney]
    Creation Date: 1925
    Catalog ID: 2015.0.5.1
    Call Number: EPH-B/979.709/Or3b/1925
    Color illustrated life membership certificate (36x28 cm.) issued to William P. Bonney by the Oregon Trail Memorial Association. Includes gold-color foil seal, colored map of Oregon Trail and branches, colored illustration of wagons on trail, and photographs of coins commemorating the Pony Express and the Oregon Trail. Title assigned by cataloger. Printed in New York City, 1925. Ephemera.
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    "Map of Military Reconnaissance from Fort Dalles, Oregon via Fort Wallah-Wallah to Fort Taylor, Washington Territory"
    Creation Date: 1858
    Catalog ID: 1997.48.1.1
    Call Number: MAPC/WT/1858.1
    U.S. military survey map (compiled by Lt. John Mullan) depicting the area from Fort Dalles, O.T. to Fort Taylor, north east W.T., 1858. Forts, rivers, wagon roads, Indian battle sites, farms, vegetation, topography, and survey camp locations are shown in detail.
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    [hair picture]
    Creation Date: 1845-1865
    Catalog ID: 1964.145.1
    Hair picture that came across the Oregon Trail, 1845-1865 with Morie family. Oval shaped in shadow box; polychromatic. Each flower marked with a family's name. Came as a remembrance of family left behind in the East.
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