Oral History Interview with Edna Gardner Whyte, February 8, 1979 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Edna Gardner Whyte, February 8, 1979

Interview with Edna Gardner Whyte, a competitive pilot and flight instructor from Garden City, Minnesota. Whyte discusses her family history, her childhood and education, moving to Oregon, her initial interests in flying, her training in nursing, taking up flying, winning her first race, teaching others to fly, becoming a flight instructor full-time, Prohibition bootlegging, races, a crash, Amelia Earhart, the growth of women in aviation, service as a Army Air Corps nurse during World War Two, being a flying salesman, flying helicopters, and building the Aero Valley Flying School.
Date: February 8, 1979
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & White, Edna Gardner
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Copper Mining in North America (open access)

Copper Mining in North America

From introduction: "In this paper are assembled and summarized many subjects relating to the copper industry in North America. Production of mines and districts, history of the industry in North America. Production of mines and districts, history of the industry, geology, of the principal deposits, and mining methods and costs are discussed."
Date: 1938
Creator: Gardner, E. D.; Johnson, C. H. & Butler, B. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oregon: basic data for thermal springs and wells as recorded in GEOTHERM (open access)

Oregon: basic data for thermal springs and wells as recorded in GEOTHERM

This sample file contains 346 records for Oregon. The records contain data on location, sample description, analysis type, collection condition, flow rates, and chemical and physical properties of the fluid. Stable and radioactive isotope data are occasionally available. (ACR)
Date: May 1, 1983
Creator: Bliss, J. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance for Uranium-Bearing Carbonaceous Rocks in California and Adjacent Parts of Oregon and Nevada (open access)

Reconnaissance for Uranium-Bearing Carbonaceous Rocks in California and Adjacent Parts of Oregon and Nevada

Report discussing the search for uraniferous coal in areas of California, Oregon, and Nevada. The reconnaissance and its results are described in sections divided by regions searched.
Date: June 1953
Creator: Moore, George W. & Stephens, James G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analyses of Coals in the United States with Descriptions of Mine and Field Samples Collected between July 1, 1904 and June 30, 1910 Part 2. Descriptions of Samples (open access)

Analyses of Coals in the United States with Descriptions of Mine and Field Samples Collected between July 1, 1904 and June 30, 1910 Part 2. Descriptions of Samples

From Introduction: "This volume contains the descriptions of the samples whose analyses are published in the preceding volume, Part I of this bulletin. The descriptions have been compiled from the notebooks of the persons who collected the samples, have been condensed from accounts given in published reports of the United States Geological Survey, or have furnished by the collection themselves. Inasmuch as the descriptions represent the work of many persons during a period of six years, and inasmuch as they were recorded under widely differing conditions, they necessarily vary in fullness detail."
Date: 1913
Creator: Lord, N. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mercury: A Materials Survey (open access)

Mercury: A Materials Survey

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing materials surveys conducted on mercury. As stated in the foreword, "the surveys dealing with metals and minerals summarize the demand-supply position in the United States and include information on production, imports, consumption, exports, substitutes, and pertinent history" (p. v). This report includes maps, tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: 1959
Creator: Pennington, James W. & Bailey, Edgar H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sixty-Day and Kherson Oats (open access)

Sixty-Day and Kherson Oats

Report discussing the results of experiments undertaken to determine the viability of early oats in different regions of the United States since early oats typically thrive only in the Corn Belt and Great Plains regions.
Date: 1910
Creator: Warburton, C. W. (Clyde William), 1879-1950
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Beneficiation Studies of the Oregon Coastal Dune Sands for Use as Glass Sand (open access)

Beneficiation Studies of the Oregon Coastal Dune Sands for Use as Glass Sand

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines on the coastal sands and their potential for being used as glass sand. Samples were tested, and properties of the sands are presented. This report includes tables, maps, and photographs.
Date: 1964
Creator: Carter, George J.; Harris, Henry M. & Strandberg, Karle G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Pacific Marine Mammal Stock Assessment: 2012 (open access)

U.S. Pacific Marine Mammal Stock Assessment: 2012

This is an assessment report based on the population of marine mammals along the Pacific coastline in the year 2012. It is a working document that will continue to be updated as data changes.
Date: January 2013
Creator: Carretta, James V.; Oleson, Erin; Weller, David W.; Lang, Aimee R.; Forney, Karin A.; Baker, Jason et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Distribution and Occurrence of the Birds of Jackson County, Oregon, and Surrounding Areas (open access)

The Distribution and Occurrence of the Birds of Jackson County, Oregon, and Surrounding Areas

Detailed descriptions of the species of birds of Jackson County, Oregon,
Date: 1975
Creator: Browning, M. Ralph
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proceedings of the Workshop on Techniques for Measurement of Thermodynamic Properties, Albany, Oregon, August 21-23, 1979 (open access)

Proceedings of the Workshop on Techniques for Measurement of Thermodynamic Properties, Albany, Oregon, August 21-23, 1979

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing a workshop held on the techniques for measurement of thermodynamic properties. As stated in the abstract, "this information circular comprises the proceedings of the workshop and includes the texts of papers presented and discussion by attendees" (p. 1). This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: 1981
Creator: Gokcen, N. A.; Mrazek, R. V. & Pankratz, L. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Diatomites of the Pacific Northwest as Filter-Aids (open access)

Diatomites of the Pacific Northwest as Filter-Aids

From Introduction Purpose of Investigation: "To determine some of the physical and chemical properties of known Pacific Northwest diatomites, the present investigation was started in 1938 by the Bureau of Mines in cooperation with the College of Mines, University of Washington.
Date: 1944
Creator: Skinner, Kenneth G.; Dammann, Arthur A.; Swift, Roy E.; Eyerly, George B. & Shuck, Gordon R., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
On Invertebrate Fossils from the Pacific Coast (open access)

On Invertebrate Fossils from the Pacific Coast

A report about fossils from the Chico-Téjon series of California. These fossils constitute additions to the already known molluscan fauna of an important series of rich strata.
Date: 1889
Creator: White, Charles A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ochers and Mineral Pigments of the Pacific Northwest : Occurrence, Possible Methods of Preparation, and Testing of Ochers, Siennas, and Colored Clays (open access)

Ochers and Mineral Pigments of the Pacific Northwest : Occurrence, Possible Methods of Preparation, and Testing of Ochers, Siennas, and Colored Clays

From Introduction: "A review is given of the nomenclature, sources, imports, statistics, common methods of preparation, and testing of mineral pigments. A description of the Deer Park-Spokane colored-clay district and the laboratory methods of preparation of these colored clays, ochers, and siennas follows. The following report is merely preliminary in nature, only three months during the summer of 1927 being devoted to the laboratory investigation."
Date: 1929
Creator: Wilson, Hewitt
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quicksilver (open access)

Quicksilver

From Introduction: "Material for this report was gathered during the last quarter of 1928 and the first quarter of 1929, when the author visited the quick-silver-producing districts of California, Nevada, Texas, Oregon, Washington and Arizona to view the progress made in recent years and gather material for a comprehensive study of the present-day quicksilver industry of the United States."
Date: 1931
Creator: Schuette, C. N.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Habitat Development Field Investigations, Miller Sands Marsh and Upland Habitat Development Site, Columbia River, Oregon: Appendix A (open access)

Habitat Development Field Investigations, Miller Sands Marsh and Upland Habitat Development Site, Columbia River, Oregon: Appendix A

Appendix containing physical, chemical and biological studies of conditions at Miller Sands Island to accompany a report of the Miller Sands Marsh and Upland Habitat Development Site, Columbia River, Oregon.
Date: December 1978
Creator: Cutshall, Norman & Johnson, Vernon G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fighting Men of the Indian Wars: A Biographical Encyclopedia of the Mountain Men, Soldiers, Cowboys, and Pioneers Who Took Up Arms During America's Westward Expansion (open access)

Fighting Men of the Indian Wars: A Biographical Encyclopedia of the Mountain Men, Soldiers, Cowboys, and Pioneers Who Took Up Arms During America's Westward Expansion

This book "is a compendium of America's Indian Wars and the mountain men, soldiers, cowboys and pioneers who took part in them" (dust-jacket). It includes information about all the major American Indian battles, the lives of notable men who fought in the battles, and the combat techniques employed. The index begins on page 247.
Date: 1991
Creator: O'Neal, Bill
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Geothermal Environmental Impact Assessment: Baseline Data for Four Geothermal Areas in the United States (open access)

Geothermal Environmental Impact Assessment: Baseline Data for Four Geothermal Areas in the United States

From Abstract: The report presents a compilation and technical assessment of the existing data on climate, geology, hydrology, water chemistry, and seismicity for four geothermal areas in the United States: Imperial Valley and The Geysers, California; Klamath Falls, Oregon; and the Rio Grande Rift Zone, New Mexico.
Date: September 1978
Creator: Geonomics, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Pacific Marine Mammal Stock Assessments: 2011 (open access)

U.S. Pacific Marine Mammal Stock Assessments: 2011

This is an assessment report on the population of marine mammals along the U.S. Pacific coastline. These reports are ever-growing and subject to change annually.
Date: December 15, 2011
Creator: Caretta, James V.; Forney, Karin A.; Oleson, Erin; Martien, Karen; Muto, Marcia M.; Lowry, Mark S. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library