Lionel Youst

Sawdust in the Western Woods
This is probably the first book to focus on the logger who was also a sawmiller, adding value to his logs by manufacturing them into lumber, in situ. It is based largely on tape recorded interviews with the author's father, George Youst, who was a small sawmill operator for practically all the years the phenomenon existed in the Douglas fir region. The book contains an original essay on the "Gyppo" sawmill, its history and significance. It follows that with a lightly edited and highly annotated oral history of George Youst's experiences as a tie-mill and "gyppo" mill operator. There are scores of photos from the author's family album, it is fully indexed with bibliography and maps.

She's Tricky Like Coyote: Annie Miner Peterson, an Oregon Coast Indian Woman

This is the first full length biography of an American Indian linguistic or ethnologic informant from the northwestern states. She was the last person to speak the Miluk Coos language and was an important consultant to the anthropologist Melville Jacobs. Her life was long and eventful.

Coquelle Thompson, Athabaskan Witness: A Cultural Biography

"It tells of someone born in Oregon before whites had settled there, yet who lived far into this century; someone versed in traditional narratives and practices, in both his first language and English, who engaged the changing world around him effectively. Encounters with a series of anthropologists hold up a mirror to them."

Above the Falls: An Oral and Folk History of Upper Glenn Creek, Coos County, Oregon. Second Edition.
The story of the homesteading and logging of a remote, inaccessible valley, told through oral history interviews, family photographs, and original documents.