Collection includes: Typescript copies of newspaper articles about Meek; Miscellaneous Meek family papers and correspondence, including photograph copy of a letter from Meek to J. G. Prentiss, July 8, 1848, regarding the Whitman Massacre; Photograph copy of document relating to the hanging of the convicted Cayuse Indian murderers of Marcus Whitman; 2 signal books, circa 1867; Photograph copy of petition to President Polk recommending Meek as U.S. Marshall, circa 1848; Certificate of appointment, U.S. Marshal, 1848; Warranty deed, 1882; Oversize folder contains: Champoeg monument memoriam, 1904.