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The panic of 1837 in the west : monograph

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Description: Paper written by Robert Tallmadge Hall for History of the West, Summer Session 1931, University of Oregon, Eugen, Oregon.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1931.
Call number: mssHM 30496
Creator: Hall, Robert Tallmadge (1908-1972)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Oregon Book Store, May 1958.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Letters to Seid Back Jr

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Three letters from students thanking Chinese-American businessman Seid Back Jr. for hosting them on a summer boat trip from San Francisco, as well as a letter to Back from police Detective Sergeant H.H. Hawley in Portland, Oregon. The three student letters to Back, all dated 1916, include one from K. Young, who notes "I haven't seen any of our Chinese friends and merchants to [sic] treated our boys as you"; one from K.H. Chiu of the Chinese Students' Christian Association who notes that many of the students Back hosted have already gone back to work or summer school, and asks him to keep a university pennant as a memento of "your Christian brother Chiu and 'California'"; and one from Stephen Mark, who writes from onboard the S.S. "T.C. Walker" that the summer class session has emptied his savings and "I am dead broke, knowing hardly [if] I am to return to college...as each year comes I find it much more difficult to work and study at the same time," and notes that several Chinese students are leaving Berkeley but will probably be replaced with others, although "the requirements are so strict here that many a one finds it necessary to transfer to some other university in order to graduate in due time." The letter from Sergeant Hawley is dated 1913 and asks Back for a contribution toward a dinner for the "poor unfortunate girls" in the Home of the Good Sheppard.

mssHM 80446-80449

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The cattle industry in Oregon, 1860-1890

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Seminar paper on the history of Oregon's cattle industry from 1860-1890. Topics include a description of grazing lands in Oregon, the encroachment of cattle ranchers onto grazing areas of Indian reservations in the Pacific Northwest, beef canning (particularly as related to John West and Company), the exporting of Oregon cattle (focusing on exports to Puget Sound, Montana, and eastward as far as Great Britain), cattle ranching practices (such as the acquisition of land, grazing tactics, ranch equipment, and the winter care or neglect of cattle), cattle breeding, and cattle rustling, including "slick-earing" (the stealing of motherless calves from another herd). Written as a seminar paper for a History of the Pacific Northwest course. Includes bibliography.

mssHM 72996

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Frederick L. Paxon syllabus for History of the west class

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Syllabus for History 111: History of the West, 1763-1837. The class was taught by Dr. Paxon at the University of Wisconsin in the 1929 to 1930 academic year. The syllabus belonged to American historian William E. Smith.

mssHM 84210

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Memoirs of W. Sherman Savage

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Typescript memoir of historian W. Sherman Savage, with some small pencil corrections. The memoir contains the following chapters: Chapter I. Growing up on the Eastern shore of Virginia; Chapter II. The Effort to Secure an Education; Chapter III. Beginning of my teaching career; Chapter IV. The Early Years at Lincoln University; Chapter V. The Reorganization of the College after 1921; Chapter VI. Development of Lincoln after 1931; Chapter VII. Developing the Department of History; Chapter VIII. Research; Chapter IX. California State College and Various Summer Schools; Chapter X. The Work of Research and Writing.

mssHM 48340

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Correspondence relating to Catholic Church in Oregon

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These 14 items deal with the Catholic Church in Oregon, and more specifically the city of Saint Paul. The group consists of two letters by Willard Hall Rees, an Oregon pioneer, to Archbishop Blanchet of the Archdiocese of Oregon City, requesting information about the history of the Catholic Church in Oregon, and 11 letters by B. Delorme to Archbishop Charles Seghers, who succeeded Archbishop Blanchet after his retirement in 1880, regarding land owned by the Catholic Church in Saint Paul. Nine of the Delorme letters are written in French. The group also contains the first survey of Saint Paul in 1859, by Archbishop Blanchet.

mssHM 68151-68164

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Dr. John McLoughlin: an estimate of his character and influence

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Thesis on Dr. John McLoughlin (1784-1857) written by LeWanda C. Fenalson Cox as part of her BA degree from the University of Oregon. She began the thesis by noting "This paper seeks to dethrone a saint...there is no desire to evolve a demon...[instead] the search is for the man," and in many places this takes the form of criticism of McLoughlin's earlier biographers. Fenalson Cox then gives a brief biography of McLoughlin before writing more extensive analysis of his character, a criticism of his "Oregon City Claims" (McLoughlin became known as the "Father of Oregon"), expounding her belief in McLoughlin's hope for personal gain by aiding early settlers in Oregon, a section on his interactions with the Hudson Bay Company and what lead to the deterioration of the relationship, and a final section entitled "Why the Myth?" in which she sums up her conclusions about her views of reality and legend. Includes a bibliography.

mssHM 78045

The panic of 1837 in the west : monograph

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