Herbert O. Lang -
Herbert O. Lang was a nineteenth-century author and editor whose work provided a vital foundational record of early pioneer settlement in Oregon. He is best known for editing the monumental 1885 volume, History of the Willamette Valley, which exhaustively chronicled the region's geography, resources, and Native American populations before and during the arrival of European settlers. By meticulously compiling the personal reminiscences and biographical sketches of numerous early Oregon Trail emigrants and missionaries, Lang preserved essential firsthand accounts of the territory's formative years. Although the ambitious publication proved to be a commercial disaster for its Portland publishers at the time, it remains an indispensable primary source for historians studying the social and cultural origins of the Pacific Northwest.
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- Died: , Oregon
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History of the Willamette Valley by Herbert O. Lang
being a description of the valley and its resources, with an account of its discovery and settlement by white men, and its subsequent history : together with personal reminiscences of its early pioneers
xiv, [17]-902, xiii pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portrait ; 25 cm
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