Rogue River Rising: The Gold Rush War for Southern Oregon
By Daniel R. Halloway
Length4h 26m
About this audiobook
"Where the current slows against a boulder, where the shadow of a fish becomes a fish." That was the grammar of the Rogue River, and on an April morning at the mouth of the Illinois a boy of nine or so, holding a spear taller than himself, was still learning it from his grandmother while the women worked the shallows with dip nets. The Tututni and their Athapaskan-speaking neighbors lived along the lower river down to the sea, the Takelma held the interior valleys, the Shasta the high ground to the south, and their year ran on salmon, camas and acorns.
Then gold brought miners onto the road to California, straight through their country. What came of it was five years of ambush and reprisal: the treaty council at Table Rock in 1853 and the small reservation it created, the war that swept the valley in 1855, and the fight at Big Bend on the Rogue in May 1856, where the Takelma headman the settlers called Chief John, a man who always listened before he spoke, led the war's last major attack.
Afterward the surviving bands were marched and shipped north, away from the river, to the Coast Reservation, and their descendants belong today to the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians and of Grand Ronde. The boy on the gravel bar would remember that April morning all his life.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length4 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 18, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1: The River and the Map
2Chapter 2: Table Rock, 1853
3Chapter 3: Gold and the Canyon
4Chapter 4: The Broken Council
5Chapter 5: The Valley at War
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6Chapter 6: The Road to Big Bend
7Chapter 7: Big Bend, May 1856
8Chapter 8: The Long Walk to the Coast
9Chapter 9: The Coast Reservation
10Chapter 10: The Rogue River Treaty and Its Enemies
11Chapter 11: Aftermath: Memory and the Land
12Chapter 12: The River Still Runs
13About the Author
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