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George B. Roberts recollections : Cathlamet, Oregon, 1878-1882.
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Title:

George B. Roberts recollections: Cathlamet, Oregon, 1878-1882
Hubert Howe Bancroft collection

Creator/Contributor:

Roberts, George B. (George Bassett), 1815-, creator

Creator/Contributor:

Victor, Frances Fuller, 1826-1902, correspondent.

Abstract:

A series of letters to Mrs. F.F. Victor, usually in reply to queries, and one to H.H. Bancroft, 1879. A naval apprentice to the Hudson's Bay Company in Oregon from 1830 and for many years clerk at Fort Vancouver, Roberts provides character sketches of many Company people, Oregon visitors by sea and by land, and missionaries and later settlers. The manuscript covers the whole of the old Oregon country, with many sidelights on Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska.

Date:

1878 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-or -- n-us-wa -- n-cn-bc -- n-us-ak
Missions -- Oregon
Missions
Oregon -- Biography
Vancouver Barracks (Wash.)
Washington (State)
British Columbia
Alaska
Oregon -- Biographies
Washington (État)
Alaska
Alaska
British Columbia
Oregon
Washington (State)
Washington (State) -- Vancouver Barracks
Hudson's Bay Company.
Hudson's Bay Company.
Roberts, George B. (George Bassett) -- 1815- -- Archives

Note:

Also available on microfilm.
Forms part of the Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection.
Preferred citation: George B. Roberts recollections : Cathlamet, Oregon, 1878-1882, BANC MSS P-A 83, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.

Type:

Archives.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

print
107 leaves ; 32 cm
partial microfilm reel (111 exposures) : negative (Rich. 105:15) and positive

Language:

English

Origin:

No place, unknown, or undetermined