Papers of a journalist who worked in Oregon and Washington state and specialized in environmental reporting. The collection includes personal information, early student essays, travel essays, poetry, articles published in newspapers and magazines, and material for three books. Included are background sources and notes to support articles and books.

Collection includes research notes and typed drafts of articles planned as entries in Howard McKinley Corning's "Dictionary of Oregon History."

Photocopy typescript book and typescript carbon rough draft, with footnotes and appendix, regarding the history of the Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Wagon Road and the company that formed it, from approximately 1825 to 1940.

Draft copy of the introduction for a book about the history of Portland, Oregon's development, and a speech about significant Jewish people in Oregon's history, both by E. Kimbark MacColl (1925-2011). MacColl was an educator and historian who, in the 1970s and 1980s, wrote three books about the history of Portland's development as a city.

Papers of Lewis A. McArthur (1883-1951) and his family, particularly papers relating to research on Oregon place names. McArthur was a historian who published Oregon Geographic Names in 1928. He published a second edition of the work in 1944, and had completed most of the work for the third edition before his death.

Typescripts for books and articles by Oregon historian and preservationist Walter Meacham, including typescripts of "Wagon wheels," "Stories of pioneer women," and "He walked with Lincoln."

Typescript photocopy first and second drafts of a fictionalized reminiscence of Mabel O. Riisberg's experiences as a homesteader in the Imperial Valley. Riisberg was a waitress from Portland, Oregon, who, along with her older sister, decided to homestead in the high desert country east of Bend, Oregon.

Collection includes notes, correspondence and drafts of biographical articles for the Oregonian newspaper on Inese Ramis, a Russian immigrant from a displaced persons camp in Germany, and A. R. Van Twiller, a deliveryman for Meier and Frank Company in Portland, Oregon.

Collection consists of research related to the history of Sauvie Island and some of its inhabitants. Materials include research notes, correspondence, and photocopies of articles and extracts from various books and publications. The collection also includes drafts for books in the Sauvie Island Heritage Series.

Typescript photocopy draft, 78 pages, of a fictional account of settlers and miners near Granite, Oregon.