City of Tillamook Tillamook County, Oregon
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General information on City of Tillamook
- Feature Type: Incorporated
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for City of Tillamook
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| City of Tillamook | Official |
| Tillamook | Official |
A Selected Bibliography of City of Tillamook, Tillamook County, Oregon
A compilation of essential readings detailing the history, geography, and culture of the region.
Koom of the Tillamooks by Margaret Watt Edwards, Roger Cooke (Illustrator)
Koom of the Tillamooks, written by Margaret Watt Edwards and illustrated by Roger Cooke, is a historical fiction story aimed at middle-grade readers. The narrative centers on the title character, Koom, who finds himself unable to remain with the last few surviving Tillamook Native Americans living along Oregon's Tillamook Bay. Feeling equally alienated and uncomfortable in the encroaching white man's world, Koom makes the difficult decision to forge his own path. The plot follows his journey as he prepares to isolate himself and spend the upcoming winter surviving entirely off the land.
178 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Non-circulating [ 1 ]
Tillamook land of many waters by Ada M. Orcutt
Ada M. Orcutt’s Tillamook: Land of Many Waters chronicles the arduous pioneer colonization and intensive agrarian subjugation of a profoundly isolated, rain-gorged coastal basin carved directly into the western flank of the Oregon Coast Range. The narrative maps how the severe environmental realities of this volatile maritime topography—defined by an impenetrable barricade of towering, old-growth spruce, plunging, flood-prone riverine valleys, and the treacherous, storm-battered breakers of the Pacific edge—initially completely severed early homesteaders from terrestrial transit to the inland valleys. By detailing the grueling transition from precarious, isolated logging outposts and hazardous coastal schooner transit to the aggressive clearing of heavily timbered bottomlands and the deployment of massive, mechanized dairy infrastructure, the text illustrates how the economic survival of the settlement was strictly dictated by the urgent necessity of mastering this heavily saturated landscape. Ultimately, the account demonstrates that violently carving robust overland transit corridors through sheer coastal mountains and systematically domesticating the region's colossal hydrological wealth into a highly integrated, industrial dairy empire were the absolute prerequisites for shattering the profound geographical detachment of the basin and anchoring it to the broader Pacific seaboard.
272 pages illustrations 22 cm
Non-circulating [ 1 ]
Tillamook County
- Aldervale
- Barnegat (historical)
- Barnesdale
- Barview
- Batterson
- City of Bay City
- Bayocean (historical)
- Bayside Gardens
- Beaver
- Blaine
- Boyer
- Brighton
- Cape Meares
- Cloverdale
- Enright
- Fairview
- Foley (historical)
- Foss
- City of Garibaldi
- Happy Hollow
- Hathaway Mead
- Hebo
- Hemlock
- Hobsonville
- Idaville
- Jordan Creek
- City of Manzanita
- Meda
- Mohler
- Neahkahnie
- Neahkahnie Beach
- Nedonna Beach
- City of Nehalem
- Nenamusa (historical)
- Neskowin
- Netarts
- Oceanside
- Oretown
- Pacific City
- Pleasant Valley
- City of Rockaway Beach
- Saltair (historical)
- Sandlake
- Tierra Del Mar
- City of Tillamook
- Twin Rocks
- City of Wheeler
- Wheeler Heights
- Woods
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Last updated: 2017-01-18