Jesse A. Applegate collection, 1861-1934.

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Jesse A. Applegate collection, 1861-1934.

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Two letters, a photograph, and a copy of Recollections of my boyhood. One letter by Applegate, dated July 24, 1861, is addressed to his cousin John T. Miller asking for news from the "old home." The second letter, dated May 15, 1934, from Jesse's brother, Oliver C. Applegate, to historian John Thomas Lee of Chicago, discusses a new edition of Jesse's Recollections being prepared for publication. The photograph has the caption "Jesse A. Applegate in old age." Recollections of my boyhood is Applegate's published memoirs about coming to Oregon on the Oregon Trail in 1843 and his early years there.

1 v. (4 items) ; 30 cm.

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Applegate, Jesse A. (Jesse Applegate), 1835-1919

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Lee, John Thomas.

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Wisconsin historian and bibliographer of Jonathan Carver. From the description of John Thomas Lee letters, 1888-1916. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 370918947 ...

Miller, John T.

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

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Oliver Cromwell Applegate was born in Oregon in 1845 to Lindsay and Elizabeth Applegate. He began his career in 1865 by assisting his father, who was subagent of the Indian agency at Ft. Klamath. During the winter months young Applegate taught in Ashland. In 1867, the governor of Oregon asked Applegate, who had become a captain in the Oregon Volunteer Militia, to lead a new militia of Indians, the "Axe and Rifle Company," to protect wagon trains and build a road to the Warm Springs Reservation. ...