by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 6, 2014 | Isaac Stevens, northern rail route, Pugent Sound, Rail routes West. Pacific railroads, railroad survey
Students in my OSU class in La Grande were asked to from groups of two or three, pick a crop or animal now grown commercially in the Northwest, and make short oral presentations explaining their subjects’ botanical or biological and geographical roots, and then follow...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 3, 2013 | Civil War In the West, Grace Bartlett, Isaac Stevens, northern rail route, Rail routes West. Pacific railroads, Robert Sawyer, Stevens treaties
For folks with a keen interest in Western history, our Josephy Library is a small treasure ground. And like any treasure field, the prizes show up almost at random.Summer intern Erik Anderson, a bibliophile and student of Don Snow’s at Whitman College, suggested I...
