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Treasure Rocks of Neah-kah-nie Mountain More Detail
Treasure Rocks of Neah-kah-nie Mountain By Garry Gitzen
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The Treasure Rocks of Neahkahnie Mountain, is no doubt the most important collection of information ever written about the area. It's difficult to overestimate the importance of the facts that you... More > present here. Well done!!" Bob La Du, Ph.D., Portland, Oreogn. During Francis Drake’s circumnavigation in 1579 while becoming the first European to Captain to pilot a ship around the globe, he performed a survey on Neahkahnie Mountain as Symbolic Sovereign Act of a land claim by building cairns crowned with incised rock markers which have become known as the Treasure Rocks of Neahkahnie Mountain. This narrative behind the Sir Francis Drake survey was conveyed to the author by Wayne Jensen, how he and Donald Viles made their discovery of the survey, its subsequent verification by Phil Costaggini and Robert J. Schultz, A.S.C.E., Oregon State University Master’s thesis "Survey of Artifacts at Neahkahnie Mountain Oregon", and how the incised markers were eventually deciphered by the author.< Less
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Francis Drake in Nehalem Bay Revised Editon Hardcover By Garry Gitzen
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RECOMMENDED READING FOR TEACHERS AND LIBRARIES Documents Franics Drake's Oregon landing site for five weeks in the summer of 1579 through flora & fauna, topography, Indian culture and a 16th... More > century survey performed to claim Novae Albionis for England. Revised 1st Editon 2011< Less
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Oregon's Stolen Histroy By Garry Gitzen
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Dispells all California theories where Francis Drake landed and having never set foot in what we know today as California.
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Francis Drake in Nehalem Bay Revised Editon By Garry Gitzen
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RECOMMENDED READING FOR TEACHERS Documents Franics Drake's Oregon landing site for five weeks in the summer of 1579 through flora & fauna, topography, Indian culture and a 16th century survey... More > performed to claim Novae Albionis for England. Revised 1st Editon 2011< Less
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Nehalem, Oregon Indians and Francis Drake 1579 By Garry Gitzen
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Description of Nehalem Oregon Indians that Francis Drake met at Nehalem Bay in 1579 during his 5-week summer landing to repair his ship the Golden Hinde. RECOMMENDED READING FOR TEACHERS
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Some notes of Charles L`ecluse By Charles L`ecluse
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Charles de L'ecluse, L’Ecluse, or Carolus Clusius (February 19, 1526–Leiden April 4, 1609). Charles de L`ecluse's book is the earliest written description of anything concerning... More > Francis Drake’s famous voyage; preceding the 1586 "Anonymous Narrative" published by the Richard Hakluyt. In January of 1989 Wayne Jensen, Director of the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum and Sir Francis Drake historian, contacted the Reverend Martin Pollard, O.S.B. of Mount Angel Abbey at St. Benedict, Oregon to translate this 16th century botanical document from its early Latin to present day English. Poor Xeroxing and poor health caused the translation delay until late 1992. Although the facsimiles contained in this production may not be up to some standards, never the less, this work is deemed necessary for the scholar of 16th century plants and Drake. The process of translating from one language to another is not exact therefore; there may be some variance from word to word of the translated pages.< Less
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Building Tillamook County’s Scenic Highways By Garry Gitzen
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Over 150 old photos and newspaper descriptions from 1918-1942 of building the Oregon coast highway over Neahkahnie Mountain and other scenic highways through Tillamook County, Oregon.
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Trench Warfare and Infantry Armament WW I By Garry Gitzen
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An Anonymous Trench Warfare Manual. Computer scanned reprint of the original hand-drawn pictures.
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Stories of Nehalem By Garry Gitzen
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Early historical stories of the Nehalem Valley, Oregon covering Indians, Neahkahnie Mountain, Spanish Galleon, Shipwrecks, Treasure and beeswax ship. Originally published 1915.
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Slave Wives of Nehalem By Garry Gitzen
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Indian Stories from Nehalem Valley, Oregon. Originally published in 1933.

About Garry Gitzen

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Garry Gitzen lives on the north Oregon coast, writes and publishes; historically significant books. www.FortNehalem.net

My research for the past twenty-five years has been Pacific Coast cartography, ethnology, topography of Nehalem Bay and surrounding areas, focusing on 16th as well as 15th and 17th century surveying methods. I would challenge you to find anyone who has written more or studied more and continues to explore the historical record offered as the proof that Francis Drake landed in Oregon.
3. The new information contained in my research is the Wayne Jensen Collection. I inherited his library in 2005 when Jensen passed away. Jensen was the former Director of the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum for 27 years whose archival collection consists of local newspapers articles, books, pamphlets, facsimiles, maps, and photographs. The 1982 OSU Thesis of Phil Costaggini and R.J. Shultz’s “Survey of Artifacts at Neahkahnie Mountain, Oregon” concludes its a 16th century..

 

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