The Oregon Desert
- ISBN-10
- 0870044346
- ISBN-13
- 9780870044342
- Category
- Deserts
- Pages
- 407
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1964
- Publisher
- Caxton Press
- Authors
- Edwin Russell Jackman, Reub A. Long
Description
Historical, biographical and geological information and practical desert folk lore on a 24,000 square-mile area of the Pacific Northwest.
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