James Orin Oliphant papers [manuscript], 1851-1945.

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James Orin Oliphant papers [manuscript], 1851-1945.

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Collection includes typescript copy of Oliphant's Harvard University Thesis "The range cattle industry in the Oregon Country to 1890," 111 pp, 1930; Typescript essay "John Mason Peck and the Nez PerceĢ 'Delegation'", 11 pp, circa 1930s; and a typescript letter from Oliphant to "Miss Pipes" on Bucknell University stationery, 1 p, 1945, with typescript copy of a letter from Joseph P. Tustin to Rev. Ezra Fisher of Lynn City, Oregon, 2 pp, 1851, about the "early contact of what is now Bucknell University with the Oregon Country."

.06 cubic feet (2 folders)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Peck, John Mason, 1789-1858

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Born in Connecticut, came west as an itinerant evangelist and strong abolitionist, settled in St. Clair County, Illinois. In 1827 he opened his Rock Spring Theological Seminary and High School which moved to Alton, Illinois in 1832 and was renamed Shurtleff College. From the description of Papers, 1819-1856. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 53458400 ...

Fisher, Ezra, 1800-1874

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Tustin, Joseph P.

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Oliphant, J. Orin

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Historian. From the description of Papers, 1914-1978. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29853384 From the description of Papers, 1910-1972. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29852622 A convenient biographical sketch of James Orin Oliphant is found the Ye Galleon Press reprint of William Emsley Jackson's Diary of a Cattle Drive from LaGrande, Oregon, to Cheyenne, Wyoming, published in 1983. That sketch is quoted here: ...

Bucknell University

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