Conducting the wagon trains : Flanking Mt. Hood and Cariboo. Salem, Oregon, 1878.

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Conducting the wagon trains : Flanking Mt. Hood and Cariboo. Salem, Oregon, 1878.

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Interview by H.H. Bancroft. Palmer's early life; overland journeys to Oregon in 1845-1847; the Cayuse War, 1848; the Applegate route; travels in California and Nevada; service as U.S. Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon, 1853-1858; experiences during the Fraser River gold rush; views on the Nez PerceĢ difficulties of the 1870's.

Originals : 55 leaves ; 32 cm.Copies : partial microfilm reel (57 exposures) : negative (Rich. 105:12) and positive.

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United States. Superintendent of Indian Affairs

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Joel Palmer was born October 4, 1810 in Elizabethtown, Ontario, Canada to Ephraim and Anna Palmer. When Joel was two his family fled the ravages of the War of 1812 and settled in the frontier village of Lowville in northern New York. At the age of twelve Joel was "bound out" (a form of indentured servitude) to the Haworth family in the Catskill Mountains. At age 16 he left the Catskills for Philadelphia where he married Catherine Caffee in 1830, who later died in childbirth. In 1836 Joel married...

Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918

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