Shannon Applegate is an American author, lecturer, and historian from the state of Oregon.
Her works include Skookum: An Oregon Pioneer Family's History and Lore (1988) and Living Among Headstones: Life in a Country Cemetery (2005).
She is also the co-editor of Talking on Paper: Oregon Letters and Diaries, sixth edition (1993).
Her father was Colonel Rex Applegate,[3] the author of acclaimed military[4] and police training manuals.
Their home is the "oldest house in the State of Oregon still occupied by its original family.