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Collection consists of typescript notes and research, circa 1950-1976, for William N. Bischoff's edited and annotated "We Were Not Summer Soldiers: the Indian War Diary of Plympton J. Kelly, 1855-56."

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Papers of John F. Miller (1825-1901), consisting of a muster roll for a volunteer mounted company he led, a letter about medicinal plants used by Native people, and a quitclaim deed. Miller was a U.S. Army officer and an early emigrant to Oregon. He led a volunteer company against Native peoples of the Rogue River Valley in 1853, served in the Oregon Territorial Legislature, worked briefly as an Indian agent, and fought in the Modoc War.

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Collection includes manuscript and typescript correspondence used by Andrew Jackson Splawn in his book "Ka-Mi-Akin: Last Hero of the Yakimas," 1858-1908.

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...