City of Coquille Coos County, Oregon
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General information on City of Coquille
- Feature Type: Incorporated
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for City of Coquille
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| City of Coquille | Official |
| Coquille | Official |
A Selected Bibliography of City of Coquille, Coos County, Oregon
A compilation of essential readings detailing the history, geography, and culture of the region.
Pioneers and incidents of the Upper Coquille Valley, 1890-1940 by Alice H. Wooldridge (Compiler)
Pioneers and incidents of the Upper Coquille Valley, 1890-1940 examines the isolated agrarian homesteading and localized timber extraction situated within the deeply incised river valleys of southwestern Oregon's Coast Range. Wooldridge details how the region's formidable interior topography—specifically the steep, heavily timbered slopes of the surrounding mountain barrier, the winding, flood-prone riparian bottomlands of the Coquille River, and the dense, nearly impenetrable temperate rainforests—strictly dictated the margins of early pioneer settlement, precarious overland transit, and grueling land-clearing operations. By mapping the arduous establishment of scattered frontier farms and logging enclaves that carved a tenuous existence out of the old-growth timber, relying on the narrow riverine corridors to navigate the severely restricted inland basin, the narrative highlights how this specific valley geography anchored a profoundly rugged, self-reliant pioneer society. Ultimately, this pioneer record serves as a localized spatial history, demonstrating how the severe overland isolation, immense botanical scale, and dynamic riparian corridors of this Pacific Northwest landscape fundamentally shaped the highly resilient, valley-bound character of the early Upper Coquille.
384 pages illustrations, maps (on lining papers), group portraits 24 cm
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Last updated: 2017-01-16