The Willamette Valley: Migration and Settlement on the Oregon Frontier

The Willamette Valley: Migration and Settlement on the Oregon Frontier by Bowen, William A.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780295955902.

Among the most popular themes considered by American social scientists have been the twin topics of westward migration and frontier development. This book focuses on one of the earliest and most significant American settlements on the Pacific slope -- Oregon south of the Columbia River -- in order to understand better the migratory process and the resulting interaction of men with a wilderness environment. What distinguishes this work from all others is the superb series of maps prepared by the author, maps so detailed and accurate that they re-create, for the first time, the essential geography of a major American frontier in the nineteenth century.