Aubrey L. Haines manuscript, 1955.

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Aubrey L. Haines manuscript, 1955.

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Osborne Russell's journal covers the period, 1834-1843. Aubrey L. Haines, a prolific writer and editor of Western American history, edited the original manuscript diary in the William Robertson Coe Collection of Western Americana in the Yale University Library. He added a bibliography and extensive notes. The collection consists of his typescript manuscript prepared for publication by the Oregon Historical Society in 1955.

The manuscript is contained in 10 folders in 1 document case (0.25 lineal ft.)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Haines, Aubrey L.

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Aubrey L. Haines was born in Portland, Oregon. After graduating from the University of Washington with a degree in forestry, he was employed as a park ranger in Yellowstone National Park. Following four years of service with the United States Army Corps of Engineers during World War II, he returned to Yellowstone and, in 1946, was appointed assistant park engineer. In 1959, he was promoted to the newly-created position of Park Historian, remaining in that post until he retired in 1969. Mr. Haine...

Russell, Osborne, 1814-1892

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Born in a small Maine village in 1814, Osborne Russell ran away to sea at age 16, but he soon gave up seafaring to join a trading and trapping company in Wisconsin and Minnesota. In 1834 he signed up for Nathaniel Wyeth's expedition to the Rocky Mountains and the mouth of the Columbia River. Subsequently, he joined Jim Bridger's brigade of old Rocky Mountain Fur Company men, continuing with them after a merger that left the American Fur company in control of the trade. When the fur trade decline...