C. M. Walker letter to Fielding Mortimore Thorp circa 1860-1865

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C. M. Walker letter to Fielding Mortimore Thorp circa 1860-1865

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Letter from C. M. Walker to Fielding Mortimore Thorp, ca. 1860-1865, opining that Fort Simcoe Indian Agent, A. A. Bancroft, "is entirely unfit for an Indian Agent."

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Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Bancroft, Azariah Ashley.

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Walker, Courtney Meade,

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Thorp, Fielding Mortimore.

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Walker, Courtney Meade, 1812-1887.

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Courtney Meade Walker, fur trapper and missionary worker, was born on April 14, 1812 in Nicholasville, Kentucky. He journeyed to Oregon in 1834 with Methodist missionary Jason Lee and assisted with the establishment of the Willamette Mission. The following year he entered the fur trade as an employee of Nathaniel Wyeth's Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company, serving as the clerk at Fort William on Sauvie Island. Following the collapse of Wyeth's operation, Walker entered the service of the...