The First Duty: A History of the U.S. District Court for Oregon

1993. Buan, Carolyn M.; Stoel, Caroline P.; and others. The First Duty: A History of the U.S. District Court for Oregon. Portland, OR: U.S. District Court of Oregon Historical Society, 1993. xxv, 332 pp., illustrations, portraits. Original green cloth with gilt stamped spine. Fine, in a fine dust jacket. $10. * Contents: Introduction / Terence O'Donnell; Oregon's first federal courts, 1849-1859 / Caroline P. Stoel; The Deady years, 1859-1893 / Ralph James Mooney; Years of growth, 1893-1927 / Todd A. Peterson and Jack G. Collins; A time of change, 1927-1950 / Randall B. Kester; A period of complexity, 1950-1991 / Laurie Bennett Mapes.