Abstract Kate D. (Catharine Dewees) Taylor was the wife of Captain Oliver Hazard Perry Taylor, who was killed during the 1858 Steptoe Expedition in Washington Territory. She was a resident of Fort Walla Walla. Collection includes correspondence to Kate D. Taylor and Oliver Hazard Perry Taylor, 1859-1868, from Major William N. Grier, James Wheeler Jr., and others regarding events at Fort Walla Walla and Indian hostilities; correspondence, 1858-1859, from family and friends; and a biographical sketch...