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Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
Historical Studies

Several historical studies are available below by clicking on the individual study. For additional historical studies, please review the documents on the Staff and Student Research Project pages.

 

Beechert, Alice & Edward. Hawaiians at Fort Vancouver. Unpublished manuscript. Undated.

 

Hardesty, Von. Historical Overview of Pearson Airfield. Unpublished manuscript, 1992.

 

Hussey, John A. Historic Furnishings Study: Armament and Furnishings of the Fort Vancouver Bastion. Washington, D.C: National Park Service, 1973.

 

Hussey, John A. Historic Furnishings Study: Fort Vancouver Bakery Washington, D.C: National Park Service, 1973. 

 

Hussey, John A. Historic Structures Report: Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Volume I. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 1972.

 

Hussey, John A. Historic Structures Report: Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Volume II. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 1976.

 

Hussey, John A. The History of Fort Vancouver and its Physical Structure. Portland, OR: National Park Service & Washington State Historical Society, 1957.

 

Hussey, John A. Hudson's Bay Company Fur Brigades in the Columbia Department. Unpublished manuscript. Undated.

 

Hussey, John A. The Fort Vancouver Farm. Unpublished manuscript. Undated.

 

Hussey, John A. The Women of Fort Vancouver. Unpublished manuscript, 1977. 

 

Leavengood Architects, Historic Structures Report for Vancouver Barracks, West Barracks (2002).

 

Merritt, Jane T. Administrative History: Fort Vancouver National Historic Site. Seattle, WA: National Park Service, 1993.

 

Shine, Gregory P. "'A Gallant Little Schooner': The U.S. Schooner Shark and the Oregon Country, 1846." Oregon Historical Quarterly 109, no. 4 (Winter 2008): 536-65. 

 

Shine, Gregory P. “A General Time of Indulgence and Festivity”: Early Winter Holiday Celebrations at the Vancouver National Historic Reserve. Part I: Christmas. Vancouver, WA: National Park Service, 2007.

 

Shine, Gregory P. “A General Time of Indulgence and Festivity”: Early Winter Holiday Celebrations at the Vancouver National Historic Reserve. Part II: New Year's Day.  Vancouver, WA: National Park Service, 2007.

 

Shine, Gregory P. "An Indispensable Point": A Historic Resourse Study of the Vancouver Ordnance Depot and Arsenal, 1849-1882. Vancouver, WA: National Park Service, 2008.

 

Shine, Gregory P. “Dr. John McLoughlin,” in Encyclopedia of U.S. Indian Policy & Law, ed. Tim Garrison & Paul Finkelman. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2008.

 

Shine, Gregory P. "Respite From War: Buffalo Soldiers at Vancouver Barracks, 1899-1900." Oregon Historical Quarterly 107, no. 2 (Summer 2006):196-227. 

 

Shine, Gregory P. Sympathy and Prompt Attentions: Fort Vancouver's Relief of the US Schooner Shark, 1846. Vancouver, WA: National Park Service, 2006.

 

Shine, Gregory P. "The National Game is Decidedly 'On the Fly'": The Rise of Organized Base Ball in the Portland and Vancouver Area in 1867: A Historic Resource Study for Fort Vancouver National Historic Site and the Vancouver National Historic Reserve. Vancouver, WA: National Park Service, 2006. 

 

Shine, Gregory P. “Ulysses S. Grant,” The Oregon Encyclopedia. Portland: Oregon Historical Society & Portland State University, 2008

 

Sinclair, Donna L. Part One, "Our Manifest Destiny Bids Fair for Fulfillment": An Historical Overview of Vancouver Barracks, 1846-1898. Vancouver, WA: National Park Service, 2003.

 

Sinclair, Donna L. Part Two, The Waking of a Military Town: Vancouver, Washington and the Vancouver National Historic Reserve, 1898-1920. Vancouver, WA: National Park Service, 2003.

 

Sinclair, Donna L. Part Three, Riptide on the Columbia: A Military Community Between the Wars, Vancouver, Washington and the Vancouver National Historic Reserve, 1920-1942. Vancouver, WA: National Park Service, 2003.

 

Steele, Harvey W. The Stock of the European Sale Shop at Fort Vancouver, 1829-1860. Unpublished manuscript, 1976. 

 

Tonsfeldt, Ward A. Historic Structures Report for Vancouver Barracks, West Barracks, Vancouver National Historic Reserve: Historical Background and Context.  Vancouver, WA: National Park Service, 2003.

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Did You Know?
Did you know that the McLoughlin House, a unit of Fort Vancouver National Historic Site located in Oregon City, Oregon, in 1941 became one of the first national historic sites designated in the western United States?
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Last Updated: August 10, 2009 at 21:22 EST