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Edwin Russell Jackman Papers, 1917-1968
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Jackman, E. R. (Edwin Russell), 1894-
- Title
- Edwin Russell Jackman Papers
- Dates
- 1917-1968 (inclusive)19171968
- Quantity
- 10 cubic feet
- Collection Number
- Consult repository.
- Summary
- The Jackman Papers include articles written for OSU publications and bulletins, national publications and specialized trade publications; news releases; radio and television talks; speeches; and manuscripts of E.R. Jackman's published books pertaining to Oregon agriculture.
- Repository
-
Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives Research Center
Special Collections and Archives Research Center
121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis OR
97331-4501
Telephone: 5417372075
Fax: 5417378674
scarc@oregonstate.edu - Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Jackman was born in Stillwater, Minnesota, February 14, 1894. He lived on his father's 185-acre potato, grain and livestock farm in Flathead County, Montana, until 1917, when he entered the U.S. Army. Jackman served as 1st Lieutenant in the Field Artillery, and was stationed at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. Prior to this time, he attended Montana State College in Bozeman in 1913-1914 and 1916-1917. During the summer of 1917 he served as County Agent in Blaine County, Montana. Following World War I, he attended Oregon Agricultural College in 1919-1920 and received his B.S. in Agronomy. He was appointed County Agent for Wasco County, Oregon, and except for a short period (1926-1929, when he resigned to enter commercial business) he worked for Oregon State College and the Federal Cooperative Extension Service until his retirement in 1959. In 1929 Jackman was appointed Extension Specialist in Farm Crops; in 1953 he was appointed Range Crops Management Specialist.
Jackman helped organize the Oregon Seed Growers' League and served as secretary for this organization for many years. He was also instrumental in starting the Oregon Wheat League, an organization that has been widely copied throughout the country. As president of the Pacific Northwest Section of the American Society of Range Management, Jackman instituted the society's "Youth Range Camp" in 1950. Since that year, the camp has been held annually. He was a member of Epsilon Sigma Phi, the national extension honorary fraternity, and in 1949 was awarded the fraternity's Western States Certificate of Recognition. In 1956 he received the United States Department of Agriculture's Superior Service Award "for outstanding success in promoting Oregon's widespread adoption of grassland agriculture and for leadership in developing the state's multimillion dollar seed industry." Jackman died on May 12, 1967 in Portland, Oregon, following a long illness. The E. R. Jackman Foundation, an affiliate of the Oregon State University Foundation located within the university's College of Agricultural Sciences, was formed in his memory.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The manuscript series includes copies of E.R. Jackman's four books are included in the collection: Gold and Cattle Country (with Herman Oliver), The Oregon Desert (with Reuben A. Long), Blazing Forest Trails (with Charles Simpson), and Steens Mountain (with Charles Conkling and John Scharff). This series also contains research materials compiled by Jackman on a variety of subjects for use in his writing.
Correspondence includes letters written in conjunction with his work at Oregon State University, personal correspondence, and letters to and from publishers concerning the various articles and books. Meetings records include programs, papers, proceedings and other items from meetings of a few of the organizations that Jackman was associated with. Personal records include a diary from his tenure in the military, military commissions, his diploma from Oregon State, awards, a retirement scrapbook, autographed books from other authors, and income/expense ledgers. Photographs that were originally part of this collection were transferred to P 89, the photographic component of Jackman's personal papers.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Preferred Citation
Edwin Russell Jackman Papers, Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
The material in this collection consists of four series: I. Manuscripts and Reference Data; II. Correspondence; III. Meetings; IV. Personal Records.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Series I: Manuscripts & Reference Data, 1922-1967Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box | ||
| 1 | Autobiographies |
ca. 1940-1960 |
| 1 | Manuscripts |
1936-1965 |
| 1 | Talks to Forestry |
|
Radio Talks |
||
| Box | ||
| 1 | General |
1929-1957 |
| 1 | Potatoes |
1923-1943 |
| 1 | Range &
Pastures |
1931-1961 |
| 1 | Alfalfa |
1929-1964 |
| 1 | Wheat, Soil, &
Miscellaneous |
1926-1957 |
| 1 | Seeds |
1930-1944 |
| Box | ||
| 1 | Speeches |
1923-1957 |
| 1 | Speech notes |
1952-1963 |
| 1 | Manuscripts |
1951-1965 |
| 1 | Cattle history
talks |
1958-1963 |
| 1 |
" What's a Cattle Ranch
Worth?"
|
1956 |
| 1 |
" We Gave A Continent
Away"
|
1954 |
| 1 | Manuscripts on the public
domain |
1951-1963 |
| 1 |
" How Much Grass Can You Buy For
$1000?"
|
1957 |
| 1 | Grass articles |
1954-1956 |
| 1 | Miscellaneous
articles |
1940-1957 |
| 1 | Miscellaneous manuscripts
(speeches, radio talks, etc.) |
1936-1957 |
| 2 | Articles |
1926-1965 |
| 2 | Dement (Russell C.)
articles |
1934-1959 |
| 2 |
" Who Gets Your
Money?"
|
1956 |
| 2 | Hunting |
1957 |
| 2 |
" Population Follows The
Plow"
|
1951 |
| 2 |
" Books Grow All Over
Oregon" and assorted notes |
1965 |
| 2 | Oliver Matthews -
Trees |
1952 |
| 2 |
" The Grass is the
Wealth"
|
1954 |
| 2 | Manuscripts
(drafts) |
1924-1963 |
| 2 | Mimeographs to county agents,
extension specialists, etc. |
1942-1944, 1948-1949 |
| 2 | Column material |
1948 |
| 2 |
" Sound Management" and
" Plan for the Day of Sale Before
the Calf is Born" , papers by Herman Oliver |
1956 and undated |
| 2 |
" Oregon: A State of
Mind" , address delivered before the Friends of the Library (published
1962) |
1961 |
| 3 | Speech material |
|
| 3 | Manuscripts and notes -
Miscellaneous |
1941-1965 |
| 3 | Manuscripts |
1922-1966 |
| 3 | Conservation Man of the Year
Award and
" Ed McCanse Says You Can't Fool
the Soil" |
1957 |
| 3 | Reub A. Long |
1955-1965 |
| 3 | Burns article |
1939-1947 |
| 3 | Grass Man of the Year, Marion
& Harney Counties |
1951-1957 |
| 3 | Personalities |
1944-1964 |
| 3 | Ballard Award |
1961 |
| 3 |
" Tracking Humor to Its
Lair"
|
|
| 3 | Short Stories |
|
| 3 |
Steens Mountain
notes |
|
| 3 |
Steens Mountain, rough
draft |
|
| 3 |
Steens Mountain: Oregon's High
Desert Country, manuscript |
1967 |
| 4 |
Oregon Desert
notes |
1961-1962 |
| 4 |
Oregon Desert notes,
correspondence, review |
1964-1965 |
| 4 |
Blazing Forest
Trails
|
|
| 4 | Ward K. Richardson - Tree
Farming Book |
|
| 4 | Baker County |
|
| 4 | Benton County |
|
| 4 | Clackamas County |
|
| 4 | Clatsop County |
|
| 4 | Coos County |
|
| 4 | Curry County |
|
| 4 | Deschutes County |
|
| 4 | Grant County |
|
| 4 | Harney County |
|
| 4 | Jackson County |
|
| 4 | Jefferson County |
|
| 4 | Lake County |
|
| 4 | Malheur County |
|
| 4 | Marion County |
|
| 4 | Morrow County |
|
| 4 | Polk County |
|
| 4 | Sherman County |
|
| 4 | Umatilla County |
|
| 4 | Wallowa County |
|
| 5 | Wasco County |
|
| 5 | Wheeler County |
|
| 5 | Yamhill County |
|
| 5 | Notes on Remaining
Counties |
|
The Oregon
Desert
|
||
| Box | ||
| 5 | Publication
draft |
1963 |
| 5 | Picture
captions |
|
| 5 | Article
manuscript |
1955 |
| 5 | Article draft |
undated |
| Box | ||
| 5 |
Steens Mountain, final
draft |
|
| 5 |
" Costs, Carrying Capacities, and
Management of Willamette Valley and Southern Oregon Farm
Pastures"
|
ca. 1939 |
| 5 |
" The First Hundred Years"
Cattlemen's Association) |
1963 |
| 5 |
" The Western
Range"
|
1959 |
| 5 |
" Weather Sorts Western
Grasses"
|
1956 |
| 5 | Jackman House |
1954 |
| Map Case | ||
| * | Jackman House
plans |
1954 |
| Box | ||
| 5 |
" Cross Country
Cooperation" (with O.A. Fitzgerald) |
1943 |
| 5 | Notes,
" The Great American
Desert" |
|
| 5 | Miscellaneous
notes |
|
| 5 | Biographical data, Edward J.
Carrillo |
|
| 5 | Notes - Bernard De
Voto |
|
Subject Files |
||
Farming and
Ranching |
||
| Box | ||
| 5 | Farming |
|
| 5 | Fences |
|
| 5 | Livestock
(feeding) |
|
| 5 | Sheep |
|
| 5 | Wild horses
information |
|
| 5 | Wildlife
resources |
|
Plants |
||
| Box | ||
| 5 | Clover and
Alfalfa |
|
| 5 | Crops and
Pasture |
|
| 5 | Grasses |
|
| 5 | Herbicides |
|
| 5 | Names of
Plants |
|
| 5 | Nitrogen
Fertilization |
|
| 5 | Plants and
Water |
|
| 5 | Undesirable Range
Plants |
|
| 5 | Wheat |
|
Range |
||
| Box | ||
| 5 | Brush
Ranges |
|
| 5 | Erosion |
|
| 5 | Forests |
|
| 5 | Grazing |
|
| 5 | Land Use |
|
| 6 | Public Land Claim
(controversy) |
|
| 6 | Range
Management |
|
| 6 | Range Management
Research |
|
| 6 | Sage
Brush |
|
| 6 | Seeding
Rangelands |
|
| 6 | Utah
Range |
|
| 6 | Use of Fire in Land
Clearing |
|
| Box | ||
| 6 | Magazine and newspaper
clippings & other reference materials (12 files) |
|
| 7 | Burns, Oregon, article in
Saturday Evening
Post
apx 12x17 in.
|
1948 |
| Map Case | ||
| * | Maps (Pacific
Northwest) |
|
National Forests -
Oregon |
||
| Map Case | ||
| * | Fremont (1954 &
1965), Ochoco (1963), Mt. Hood (1963), Malheur (1962), Siuslaw (1962),
Willamette (1965), Deschutes (1965), Umpqua (1965), Rogue River (1965),
Siskiyou (1964), Wallowa-Whitman (1964) |
|
National Forests -
Washington |
||
| Map Case | ||
| * | Gifford Pinchot
(1965), Mount Baker (1960), Okanogan (1960), Wenatchee (1964) |
|
| Map Case | ||
| * | Bureau of Land Management
Recreation Guide, Oregon |
ca. 1964 |
| * | Malheur National Wildlife
Refuge |
1962 |
| * | Josephine County (Oregon)
Recreation and Park Areas |
1962 |
Series II: Correspondence, 1917-1967Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box | ||
| 6 | Article
correspondence |
undated |
| 6 | Article
correspondence |
1941-1958 |
| 6 | Article
correspondence |
1959-1967 |
| 6 | Miscellaneous
correspondence |
undated |
| 6 | Miscellaneous
correspondence |
1924-1955 |
| 6 | Miscellaneous
correspondence |
1956-1966 |
Work
correspondence |
||
| Box | ||
| 8 | undated | |
| 8 | 1919-1940 | |
| 8 | 1941-1944 | |
| 8 | 1945-1956 | |
| 8 | 1957-1959 | |
| 8 | 1960-1961 | |
| 8 | 1962 | |
| 8 | 1963 | |
| 8 | 1964-1967 | |
Miscellaneous
correspondence |
||
| Box | ||
| 8 | undated | |
| 8 | 1924-1958 | |
| 8 | 1959-1962 | |
| 8 | 1963-1966 | |
| 8 | 1966-1967 | |
| Box | ||
| 8 | Alice Hutchens
correspondence |
1961-1966 |
| 8 | Peru trip |
1962-1963 |
| 8 | Epsilon Sigma Phi |
1938-1953 |
| 8 | Epsilon Sigma Phi |
1954-1960 |
| 8 | Military service,
1917-1919 |
1947-1964 |
Personal
Correspondence |
||
| Box | ||
| 8 | 1917-1922 | |
| 8 | 1923-1942 and undated | |
| 8 | 1943-1947 | |
| 9 | January - March, 1948 | |
| 9 | March - December, 1948 | |
| 9 | 1949-1955 | |
| 9 | 1956-1957 | |
| 9 | 1958-1961 | |
| 9 | 1962-1967 | |
| Box | ||
| 9 | Recreation |
1960-June 1962 |
| 9 | Recreation,
July-October |
1962 |
| 9 | Recreation, Miscellaneous
printed material |
|
| 9 | Reviews and announcements,
Blazing Forest
Trails
|
1967 |
| 9 | Questionnaires,
Gold and Cattle
Country
|
|
| 9 | House Bill 1003 |
1966-1967 |
| 9 | Bi-National
Center |
1963 |
| 9 | Material For Chemistry in
Agriculture, Notes in Answer to Rachel Carson (author of
Silent Spring) |
1962 |
| 9 | Chemistry and
agriculture |
1956-1961 |
| 9 | Ward K. Richardson
correspondence |
1959-1964 |
| 9 | Friends of
Library |
1964-1966 |
| 9 | Silvies Club |
1965-1966 |
| 9 | Oregon Taxes |
1948-1956 |
| 9 |
" Conservation Man of the
Year" tour |
1960 |
| 9 | Youth Range Camps |
1960 |
| 9 |
Steens Mountain
|
1965-1967 and undated |
| 9 |
Gold and Cattle
Country
|
1960-1961 and undated |
| 10 |
Gold and Cattle
Country
|
1961-1962 |
| 10 |
Blazing Forest
Trails
|
1964-1967 and undated |
| 10 |
Oregon Desert
|
1954-1967 |
| 10 |
Oregon Desert, clippings and
Miscellaneous materials |
1958-1962 |
Series III: Meetings, 1938-1963Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box | ||
| 10 | Regional Grass School, Region
11, Soil Conservation Service, Pullman, WA |
June 1938 |
| 10 | Oregon Wheat Growers League,
silver anniversary meeting, Portland |
December 1952 |
| 10 | Agricultural Economics
Writing Short Course, OSC |
1954 |
| 10 | Harney County Grass
Tour |
June 1960 |
| 10 | Inter-agency Range Tour,
Lakeview, Oregon |
June 1962 |
| 10 | Western Oregon Livestock
Association, annual meeting |
November 1962 |
| 10 | Oregon Cattlemen's
Association, 50th anniversary meeting, Baker, Oregon |
November 1963 |
| 11 | Mid Pacific Empire
Agricultural Economic Conference, Medford, Oregon |
November 7-8, 1930 |
Series IV: Personal Records, 1917-1968Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box | ||
| 10 | Diary |
December 1917-July 1918 |
| 10 | Calendar book |
1958 |
| 10 | Diploma, B.S. in Agriculture,
Oregon State Agricultural College |
1920 |
| 10 |
The Magazine for Oregon
Juniors
|
April & November, 1933 |
| 10 |
" Gems of
Thought"
|
undated |
| 10 | Criticism of Jackman report
on crested wheatgrass |
undated |
| 10 | Tax information |
1947-1962 |
| 10 | Retirement scrapbook from
Epsilon Sigma Phi |
1959-60 |
| 10 | Memorials |
1967 |
| 10 | OSU Centennial
Award |
1968 |
Autographed books from
others |
||
| Box | ||
| 10 |
After the Covered Wagons:
Recollections of Russell C. and Ellis S. Dement (edited by Jackman;
Oregon Historical Society reprint) |
1962 |
| 10 |
Klamath Echoes, v.1,
no.1 |
1964 |
| 10 |
Early Days in Phoenix,
Oregon, by Marjorie Neill Helms |
1954 |
| 10 |
Pack Saddles and Rolling
Wheels, by Helms |
1959 |
Income/expense
ledgers |
||
| Box | ||
| 11 | (for
business?) |
April 1923 to August 1926 |
| 11 | January 1921 to December 1931 | |
| 11 | January 1932 to December 1936 | |
| 11 | January 1937 to June 1947 | |
| 11 | July 1947 to December 1952 | |
| 11 | January 1953 to August 1958 | |
| 11 | September 1958 to December 1963 | |
Military records |
||
| Box | ||
| 7 | 2nd Lieutenant
Commission
apx 12x17 in.
|
1917 |
| 7 | 1st Lieutenant
Commission
apx 12x17 in.
|
1918 |
| 7 | "Leadership," address by
Major C.A. Bach to the Graduating Officers at Fort Sheridan
apx 12x17 in.
|
ca. 1917 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Agricultural extension workers--Oregon.
- Agriculture--Oregon.
- Beef cattle--Oregon.
- Deserts--Oregon.
- Grasses--Oregon.
- Grazing--Oregon.
- Radio programs--Oregon.
- Ranch life--Oregon.
- Soil erosion--Oregon.
- Wheat--Oregon.
- World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, American.
