Douglas County [Oregon] Historical Society
The Umpqua Trapper
Cover of the Winter 2014 Umpqua Trapper features a 2000 woodcut by Alison Saar titled "Washtub Blues." The rights to use this image as cover art for a biography of Letitia Carson currently being written by the author and an associate, and as the icon for a related educational website focused on her life (www.orww.org/History/Letitia_Carson/), are by permission of L.A. Louvre, Venice, California.
Article Series: "The Search for Letitia Carson in Douglas County, Oregon"
I wrote the following series of articles about Letitia Carson in 2014 and 2015 for both the Douglas County Historical Society's The Umpqua Trapper, and for the Genealogical Society of Douglas County, Inc.'s Douglas County Pioneer. Similar text drafts were submitted to the editors of each publication, but formatting, choice of illustrations, minor editing, and some captions and labeling were left to individual editorial discretion.
The principal purposes of these articles are to: 1) inform people and make them aware of Letitia Carson's place in Oregon history and in US history; and 2) hopefully locate people who may have the interest, time, and ability to aid in the research of Letitia's life -- and the lives of her children and their father -- from 1800 to 1922.
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Winter 2014 |
Zybach, Bob 2014. "The Search for Letitia Carson in Douglas County, Oregon, Part I: Who is Letitia Carson? [Upper Cow Creek Valley, 1853-1861]," The Umpqua Trapper, Douglas County Historical Society, Vol. 50, No. 4: 3-20. [PDF_5_MB] |
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Spring 2015 |
Zybach, Bob 2015. "The Search for Letitia Carson in Douglas County, Oregon, Part II: Letitia Carson & The Homestead Act, 1862-1868," The Umpqua Trapper, Douglas County Historical Society, Vol. 51, No. 1: 3-23. [PDF_12_MB] |
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Summer 2015 |
Zybach, Bob 2015. "The Search for Letitia Carson in Douglas County, Oregon, Part III: The Carsons & The Lavadours, 1868-1886," The Umpqua Trapper, Douglas County Historical Society, Vol. 51, No. 2: 3-22. [PDF_4_MB] |
