Letter, 1898 Feb. 26, San Francisco, to Prof. Elliott Coues, Washington, D.C.

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Letter, 1898 Feb. 26, San Francisco, to Prof. Elliott Coues, Washington, D.C.

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Discredits the reports of Oregon history by W.H. Gray and [Oliver W.] Nixon as prejudiced and inaccurate, especially in perpetuating a myth that Marcus Whitman's intercession was instrumental in preventing Oregon's loss to the U.S. when the northwest boundary was established.

[8] p. on 2 l. Holograph signed.

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