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Steel, W. G. (William Gladstone). Cascade Range Forest Reserve, circa 1924.

Title: Cascade Range Forest Reserve, circa 1924.

Cascade Range Forest Reserve is the title of a typescript signed article by W. G. Steel, in which he recollects lobbying actions taken in 1897 relating to the protection of the Cascade Range Forest Reserve (later known as the Cascade National Forest and part of the present Willamette National Forest). The manuscript includes a note in pencil on the first leaf: "Submitted with Steel's letter of 12-31-24. Our reply, P Supervision, 1-5-25, ENO," as well as some corrections in pencil throughout. It is not clear whether or not this text was ever published.

ArchivalResource: 15 leaves ; 14 x 22 centimeters.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123953735 View

Steel, William Gladstone. Letters to W. G. Steel [manuscript], 1887-1891.

Title: Letters to W. G. Steel [manuscript], 1887-1891.

Letter to W. G. Steel from F. H. Kenny, 2 pp, 4 October 1887, regarding various museum collections in the United States; Letter to W. G. Steel from Thomas Condon, 1 p, 19 September 1887, regarding research on Oregon geology; Contract between W. G. Steel and Columbia Fair Excursion Co., 2 pp, 29 December 1891, making Steel the Portland, Oregon Agent.

ArchivalResource: .02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Steel, W. G. (William Gladstone). Steel's editorial excursion, 1904 / under the management of Will G. Steel.

Title: Steel's editorial excursion, 1904 / under the management of Will G. Steel. 1903-1906.

ArchivalResource: [29] p., bound : ill., maps ; 35 cm.

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Oliver Cromwell Applegate papers, 1841-1938

Title: Oliver Cromwell Applegate papers 1841-1938

Oliver Cromwell Applegate (1845-1938), the son of Lindsay and Elizabeth Applegate (Applegate Trail pioneers), spent his career working with Oregon Indians. He was a subagent with the Indian Service at Yainax, and during the Modoc War he served as an interpreter and a scout. In 1873, he became a U.S. Commissioner, and in 1898 was appointed Klamath Indian Agent. After his resignation in 1905 he continued to work with the federal government on Indian issues such as the Grande Ronde tribal status challenge. The Oliver Cromwell Applegate papers consist mainly of Applegate family correspondence, with some miscellaneous bills, newspaper clippings, pension papers, documents, journals and the 1868 diary of Frank Applegate.

ArchivalResource: 13.0 linear feet, 27 containers

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Everette, Willis E. Willis E. Everette letter to W. G. Steel [manuscript], 1887 September 27.

Title: Willis E. Everette letter to W. G. Steel [manuscript], 1887 September 27.

Letter from Willis E. Everette letter to W. G. Steel, 2 pp, 27 September 1887, regarding Everette's collection of Eskimo artifacts.

ArchivalResource: .02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Welles, Roger Patton. Roger Patton Welles papers relating to Crater Lake National Park, 1916-1932.

Title: Roger Patton Welles papers relating to Crater Lake National Park, 1916-1932.

Correspondence, photographs, personal papers and printed material primarily relating to Welles's employment as a ranger at Crater Lake National Park. Correspondence written to his family records his departure from Yale, his experience in Los Angeles, his return to Connecticut, and his year at Crater Lake National Park. There is also correspondence with government and National Park Service officials relating to his initial Park Service appointment, his promotions, and his resignation in 1926. Informal correspondence with other National Park staff includes letters from Peter Oard and William Gladstone Steel, the founder of Crater Lake National Park and Welles's first supervisor. A diary (16 p.) that Welles kept from October 1925 to February 1926 records his experience as a ranger. Two photo albums and approximately 60 loose photos, some duplicates, including fifteen which were removed from one of the albums. Mostly photographs of Crater Lake National Park and group photos of Welles with other rangers and friends, as well as a formal portrait of Welles. Eight photographic postcards, some blank, some with correspondence on verso. Collection also includes notes about birds, animals, and Connecticut place names; forms, documents, and receipts related to Welles's duties at Crater Lake National Park; and printed works, promotional literature, clippings, and four maps of Crater Lake and other national parks. Contains a copy of the proceedings from the first Chief Ranger's conference, held in 1926 at Sequoia National Park; a 1926 copy of Crater Lake National Park's Nature Notes; a copy of Ansel F. Hall's Guide to Giant Forest Sequoia with manuscript dedication, and a corrected copy of John F. Pernot's Forests of Crater Lake's National Parks with manuscript notes in Welles's hand.

ArchivalResource: 1.04 linear ft. (3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702173178 View

Applegate, O. C. (Oliver Cromwell), 1845-1938. Oliver Cromwell Applegate papers, 1841-1938.

Title: Oliver Cromwell Applegate papers, 1841-1938.

Collection comprises Applegate family correspondence, with some miscellaneous bills, newspaper clippings, pension papers, documents, journals and the 1868 diary of Frank Applegate. Correspondence is filled with local references, social and political. During the Modoc War, Applegate carried on both official and unofficial correspondence. Major correspondents include: Lindsay Applegate, Elisha Applegate, Lucien B. Applegate, Robert S. Applegate, Sallie Applegate, Samuel E. May, Amos Rogers, Ivan D. Applegate, Samuel A. Clarke, Alfred B. Meacham, Jesse Applegate, Frances Fuller Victor, Seth R. Hammer, Binger Hermann, Eva Emery Dye, Will G. Steel, Davis Moses. A minor diary of Frank Applegate, 1868, is with the papers.

ArchivalResource: 13 linear ft. (26 containers)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57229277 View

Nye, Bill, 1850-1896. Edgar Wilson Nye letter to W. G. Steel [manuscript], 1889 April 1.

Title: Edgar Wilson Nye letter to W. G. Steel [manuscript], 1889 April 1.

Letter from Edgar Wilson Nye to W. G. Steel, 1 p, 1 April 1889, thanking the Oregon Alpine Club for an honor conferred.

ArchivalResource: .02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Portland Historical Society (Or.). Portland Historical Society records [manuscript], 1891-1897.

Title: Portland Historical Society records [manuscript], 1891-1897.

Collection includes a letter from Robert A. Miller to W.G. Steel, Dec. 2, 1891, supporting the creation of a historical society, a printed proposal for a "Historical Society for Oregon," Dec. 12, 1891, signed by W.G. Steel, Geo. H. Himes, and J.A. Carman, three copies of the "Articles of Incorporation of the Portland Historical Society," and outlines for lecture series on American history offered by the Society, 1894/1895 and 1897/1898.

ArchivalResource: .01 cubic feet (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/662527582 View

Steel, William Gladstone. A story of names : place names of Utah.

Title: A story of names : place names of Utah.

ArchivalResource: 76 pp. : photocopy of typescript.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122552316 View

Steel, W. G. (William Gladstone). Scrapbook of Klondike gold rush, Frederick A. Cook's ascent of Mt. McKinley, and other Alaskana, ca. 1897-1907.

Title: Scrapbook of Klondike gold rush, Frederick A. Cook's ascent of Mt. McKinley, and other Alaskana, ca. 1897-1907.

Scrapbook includes clippings from Alaska, Washington, and Oregon newspapers and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42069309 View

Letters to W. G. Steel, 1887-1891

Title: Letters to W. G. Steel 1887-1891

Letter to W. G. Steel from F. H. Kenny, 2 pp, 4 October 1887, regarding various museum collections in the United States; Letter to W. G. Steel from Thomas Condon, 1 p, 19 September 1887, regarding research on Oregon geology; Contract between W. G. Steel and Columbia Fair Excursion Co., 2 pp, 29 December 1891, making Steel the Portland, Oregon Agent. William Gladstone Steel (b. 1854) was called "The Father of Crater Lake."

ArchivalResource: .02 cubic feet (1 folder)

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv08135 View

Independent Barge Club. Records, 1859-1863.

Title: Records, 1859-1863.

Minutes of meetings of the Independent Barge Club, kept by secretary William G. Steel, recording the club's rules and regulations, and plans for maintenance of its boat, the Whisper. Also one retained copy of a letter to a member and a meeting invitation.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. and 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56352330 View