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J. Neilson Barry
collection
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GROUP III: RESEARCH FILES
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J. Neilson Barry filed most of his correspondence and research notes
together by topic. During the initial processing of the collection in 1958,
Annie Laurie Bird arranged his topical files into 90 broad subject groupings
(each of which she called a Research File) and one Miscellaneous Subject File.
The notes and correspondence in these files will be much more meaningful to
researchers who have reviewed Barry's writings (Group II) first. Please
note that some of Barry’s letters are not in topical research files; that correspondence
is listed below under “Separated Correspondence.” Consult the
index of correspondents for a list of the
correspondents found throughout the collection. For more details on the
history of the collection’s organization, see A Note
on the Arrangement of the Collection.
Separated Correspondence
The letters in
this box are those that were not interfiled into J. Neilson Barry’s topical
research files. In some cases the letters were of a general or miscellaneous
nature that either defied classification or could not be identified; or they
were wide-ranging letters exchanged with a particular person or institution on a
variety of topics. Many of the research topics in the research files are
represented here; for example, Barry and Eugene B. Chaffee discussed several
areas of Idaho history, and the correspondence with the Oregon Historical
Society discusses many themes in Oregon history. Not all of it is research
correspondence, per se; some of it (particularly in Folders 1 through 4) is of a
miscellaneous nature, such as letters to the editor, inquiries to merchants, and
the like. All the correspondents are, however, included in the collection’s
index of correspondents. The one letter from H.L. Mencken (Folder 13) is a
friendly letter, evidently in response to one from Barry, inviting him to submit
an article to the American Mercury. A
letter to Boise State University from E.W. Giesecke, written in 2004 describing
Barry’s home, Barrycrest, has been added to the file of correspondence between
Barry and Giesecke (Box 9, Folder 10). The letter includes some reminiscences
by Giesecke about Barry and two photos of the house.
Box 9: Correspondence
Folder 1 General and
miscellaneous, Chronological: 1924-1930
2 General and miscellaneous, Chronological: 1931-1939
3 General and miscellaneous, Chronological: 1940-1951
4 General and miscellaneous, Chronological: 1952-1960
5
This number not used
6 Chaffee, Eugene B., 1934-1959
7 Chapman, C.C. / Oregon Voter, 1928-1933
8 Curry County Indian Heir Association / Sam Van Pelt, 1930-1931
9 Daughters of the American Revolution, 1941-1954
10 Giesecke, E.W., 1956
11 Kibbe, L.A., 1952-1957
12 Lewis and Clark College, 1950
13 Mencken, H.L. (one letter from Mencken), 1932
14 Oregon Blue Book (about), 1935-1938
15 Oregon Historical Society, 1929-1959
16 Oregon Historical Quarterly: Editorial policy, 1929-1933
17 Oregon Textbook Commission, 1936
Correspondents include Rex Putnam
18 Richardson, Ruth Ellsworth, 1938-1941
19 Rollins, Philip Ashton,
and Beulah Rollins, 1929
20 Utility Security Holders Protective Association, 1933
21 Wheat, Carl I., 1955-1959
22 Whitehill, Walter Muir, 1960
23 Correspondence regarding Maps
24 Correspondence regarding Gifts of maps
List of Research Files
These are the
major research files established during the initial processing of the Barry
collection by Annie Laurie Bird in 1958. One additional file has been added,
File 70.5 (Persons: Indexes). This file was created in 2006 by pulling together
Barry’s alphabetical indexes of persons from the Miscellaneous Subject File.
There was also some rearrangement done of the folders within the Astoria and
Lewis and Clark groupings in 2006, but otherwise the files remain basically as
Miss Bird organized them. To see the names of the folders within each file,
click on the File number.
File 1. Astoria:
Correspondence and Writings
File 2. Astoria: Compilations
File 3. Astoria: Topical Notes
File 4. Astoria: Wilson Price Hunt
File 5. Astoria: Maps
File 6. Astoria: Persons
File 7. Astoria: Posts and Forts
File 8. Astoria: Ships
File 9. Barlow
Road (and other emigrant roads)
File 10. Battles
File 11. Boise, Old Fort, and Reed Fort Locations
File 12. Bonneville, Captain
File 13. Boundaries, International
File 14. Canada: British Columbia
File 15. Canada: Hudson’s Bay Company
File 16. Canada: Maps and List of Forts
File 17. Cascades
File 18. Champoeg
File 19. Champoeg: Maps and Plats
File 20. Champoeg: Source Documents
File 21. Chronology of Oregon
File 22. Clatsop Beach
File 23. Colter, John
File 24. Colter, John: Maps
File 25. Colter, John: Old Maps
File 26. Columbia River I: Lt. Broughton
File 27. Columbia River II
File 28. Columbia River III
File 29. Columbia River IV: Drowned Forest
File 30. Columbia River V
File 31. Columbia River VI: Columbia River
Gorge and Highway
File 32. Columbia River VII: Point Vancouver
File 33. Cox, Ross
File 34. Day, John
File 35. Dorion Family
File 36. Discoveries, Miscellaneous
File 37. Douglas, David
File 38. Ferris Map
File 39. Fort Henry / Carved Stones
File 40. Forts: State of Washington
File 41. Frazer, Robert, Map
File 42. Hayden Survey
File 43. Heceta, Captain Bruno
File 44. Indians
File 45. La Honton, Baron
File 46. Lee, Jason
File 47. Lee, Jason: Old Methodist Mission
File 48. Lewis and Clark Expedition
File 49. Lewis and Clark Expedition: Patrick Gass
File 50. Lewis and Clark Expedition: Sacajawea
File 51. Lewis and Clark Expedition: East of
the Continental Divide
File 52. Lewis and Clark Expedition: Lemhi
Region
File 53. Lewis and Clark Expedition: Lolo
Trail
File 54. Lewis and Clark Expedition:
Clearwater River
File 55. Lewis and Clark Expedition: On the
Snake and Columbia Rivers
File 56. Lewis and Clark Expedition: On the
Lower Columbia
File 57. Lewis and Clark Expedition: Maps
File 58. Lisa, Manuel
File 59. Marias Pass
File 60. McLoughlin, Doctor John
File 61. New York: City and State
File 62. Ogden, Peter Skene
File 63. Oregon Agriculture
File 64. Oregon Trail
File 65. Oregon Trail: Maps
File 66. Oregon and other trails in Idaho
File 67. Persons: French Canadians
File 68. Persons: Listed by Years
File 69. Persons: Census 1850-1940
File 70. Persons: Census by the Years
File
70.5
Persons: Indexes
File 71. Snake River and Snake River Canyon
File 72. South Pass / Robert Stuart Route
File 73. Spokane House, Location of
File 74. Thompson, David: Chronological Index
File 75. Thompson, David: Miscellaneous
File 76. Thompson, David: Maps and Printed
Materials
File 77. Township Plats: Ashland Area and
Southeast Oregon
File 78.
Township Plats: Baker Area
File 79.
Township Plats: Coast Region
File 80.
Township Plats: Cow Creek
File 81. Township Plats: Eugene
File 82. Township Plats: Willamette
File 83. Township Plats: Umpqua River
File 84. Treaties, British
File 85. Treaties, Russian
File 86. Treaties, Spanish
File 87. Treaties, United States, Concerning
Oregon
File 88. Vancouver, Captain George
File 89. Vancouver, Washington and Fort
Vancouver
File 90. Work, John
File 91.
Miscellaneous Subject File
FILE 1: ASTORIA:
CORRESPONDENCE AND WRITINGS
The early history of Astoria, John Jacob Astor’s
short-lived fur trading outpost near the mouth of the Columbia River, was one of
J. Neilson Barry’s primary research interests. He was particularly interested
in determining the routes of travel of the overland Astorians (especially Wilson
Price Hunt and Robert Stuart) and in ascertaining the names of all persons who
worked at or visited Astoria, the names of those who stayed on in Oregon, and
the names of ships that called there. He began preparing an annotated edition
of Washington Irving’s Astoria, but did not obtain the commitment of a
publisher and never completed the project. He did, however, publish an article,
"Astorians Who Became Permanent Settlers" in the Washington Historical
Quarterly in 1933. Much of Barry’s correspondence and research material on
Astoria and Astorians is gathered in Files 1 through 8 (Folders 1 to 126).
There is additional material in the Miscellaneous Subject File under names of
individuals; and bodies of other related materials in File 33 (Ross Cox),
File
35 (Marie Dorion), File 72 (South Pass / Robert Stuart), and elsewhere in the
collection. Portions of Barry’s Astoria files were microfilmed by the Oregon
State Library in the early 1950s
Box 10
Folder 1 List of
Barry’s booklets on various Astorian topics
Folder 2 Astoria Bibliography
Folder 3 Research correspondence: Miscellaneous, 1924-1960
Folder 4 Research correspondence: Original Astoria journal, 1927-1954
Folder 5 Summary by JNB
Folder 6 Writings: The Dream That Came True
Folder 7 Writings: Irving’s Astoria, Annotations by Barry: Chapters
1-4
Folder 8 Writings: Irving’s Astoria, Annotations by Barry: Indian
chapter
Folder 9 Writings: Irving’s Astoria, Annotations by Barry: Indians:
References
Folder 10 Writings: Irving’s Astoria: Correspondence, 1911-1935
Folder 11 Writings: Irving’s Astoria: Notes on criticism
Folder 12 Writings: Review of John Jacob Astor, Landlord of New York (Smith)
Folder 13 Miscellaneous notes
FILE 2:
ASTORIA: COMPILATIONS
Included in this File are Barry’s notebooks
recording events at Astoria chronologically (Folders 14 to 20), an index of
places associated with Astoria and Astorians (Folder 21), and other
compilations.
Box 10
Folder 14 Arrivals
and Departures, 1811‑1814
Folder 15 Chronology
Folder 16 Astoria, 1811
Folder 17 Astoria, 1812
Folder 18 Astoria, 1813
Folder 19 Astoria, 1814
Folder 20 Astoria, from April 4, 1814
Folder 21 Place Names, indexed
Folder 22 Names of persons
Folder 23 Names from British Admiralty
Folder 24 Number of Persons, Shares of Partners
FILE 3: ASTORIA: TOPICAL NOTES
Mainly notes and compiled bibliographical references on the persons and topics
listed.
Box 10
Folder 25 Astor,
John Jacob
Folder 26 Astor, John Jacob: Letters to Astor
Folder 27 Astor, John Jacob: "Pirate Gold," joke of Professor Herbert E.
Bolton
Folder 28 Astor, John Jacob: Residence of John Jacob Astor
Folder 29 Ebbetts, Capt. John
Folder 30 Henry, Andrew
Folder 31 Jackson, Francis James, envoy from Great Britain
Folder 32 Mackenzie, Charles (North West Company) meets Lewis and Clark
Folder 33 McGillivray, Joseph
Folder 34 Thompson, David: Letter to Fraser, Dec. 21, 1810
Folder 35 Thorn, Capt. Jonathan
Folder 36 Mackinaw Company
Folder 37 Missouri Fur Company
Folder 38 North West Company, persons
Folder 39 North West Company, officers and men, 1804
Folder 40 North West Company, bibliography
Folder 41 North West Company, miscellaneous
Folder 42 North West Company, notes on persons
Folder 43 Pacific Fur Company: Incorporation
Folder 44 Pacific Fur Company: Sale of Astoria
Folder 45 British Columbia, explorations
Folder 46 British Government
Folder 47 Northwest agreement
Folder 48 Russia
Folder 49 U.S. Government
FILE 4: ASTORIA: WILSON PRICE HUNT
Barry sought to trace the
route of Wilson Price Hunt’s disaster-plagued overland expedition from St. Louis
to Astoria. Correspondents include B.W. Driggs, Howard B. Lott, A.C.
McCain, and Louie W. Shevling. See also File 71 (Snake River and Snake River Canyon), the
Miscellaneous Subject File folder on Donald McKenzie (Folder 978), and
Map
Folder 1302.
Box 10
Folder 50 Hunt
party
Folder 51 McKenzie route through Idaho, 1811: Research correspondence:
1936-1937
Folder 52 Hunt's route: South Dakota, Wyoming. Maps, Notes
Folder 53 Hunt's route, 1811. Maps, Notes
Folder 54 Pages clipped from Astoria for annotation, first state
annotated
Folder 55 Research correspondence, 1923-1933
Folder 56 Research correspondence, 1938-1953
FILE 5: ASTORIA: MAPS
Mostly maps drawn by Barry
himself. See also Miscellaneous Subject File, Folder 669, for township
maps; Folder 939 in the Miscellaneous Subject File (Lapie Map), and Folder 1328
in the Maps (Group IV) for a town plan.
Box 11
Folder 57 Worksheet
maps of Columbia and Snake River
Folder 58 Hand-drawn maps
Folder 59 Hand‑drawn maps, Astorian overland route (Wilson Price Hunt)
Folder 60 Three‑sheet worksheet map of Fort Boise
Folder 61 Route of Overland expedition to Astoria
Folder 62 Unidentified map/sketches
Folder 63 Lake Biddle
FILE 6: ASTORIA: PERSONS
J. Neilson Barry compiled these folders (arranged alphabetically by last name)
with references to and information concerning persons who lived, worked, or
visited Astoria. Data on Astorians who remained in Oregon was used as source
material for his article, "Astorians Who Became Permanent Settlers" (Washington
Historical Quarterly, 1933). The names of Astorians should also be
checked against the compilations in Files 67 through 70.5 (Persons) and names of
persons in the Miscellaneous Subject File.
Box 11
Folder 64 A‑B
Folder 65 C‑D; Dorions
Folder 66 E‑F
Folder 67 H‑K
Folder 68 L
Folder 69 Mc‑M
Folder 70 N, O, P
Folder 71 Q, R, S; Ramsay, George
Folder 72 T
Folder 73 V, W; Wallace Journal; XYZ
Folder 74 Wallace Journal: Research correspondence, 1927-1928
Folder 75 Correspondence with Kenneth W. Porter, 1933
Folder 76 Porter article, Editorial revisions
FILE 7: ASTORIA: POST AND FORTS
Research material and references to outposts of Astoria.
Box 11
Folder 77 Coeur d'Alene
Folder 78 Flathead Fort
Folder 79 Henry Fort
Folder 80 McKenzie Post
Folder 81 Oak Point Fishing Station (Winship brothers)
Folder 82 Fort Okanogan
Folder 83 Fort Okanogan: Research correspondence, 1947-1954
Correspondents include Burt R. Campbell and John C. Goodfellow
Folder 84 Reed's Post on the Boise
Folder 85 Reed's Post: Maps
Folder 86 Reed Party
Folder 87 Spokane
Folder 88 Shuwap
Folder 89 Wallace house, 1812‑1813
Folder 90 Wallace house: Research correspondence, 1924-1960
Folder 91 North West Co. Willamette Post: Articles by R. J. Hendricks, 1937
Folder 92 North West Co. Willamette Post: Historical marker controversy, 1959
Folder 93 Fort Willamette
FILE 8: ASTORIA: SHIPS
See also the folders on
Ships in the Miscellaneous Subject File (Folders 1115-1127). E.W. Giesecke
cited Barry's research in his series of articles, "Search for the Tonquin," in
Cumtux (1990). His articles and other notes have been added to the
collection (Folders 122 and 123).
Box 11
Folder 94 Ships
connected with struggle for Astoria.
Folder 95 USS Adams / USS John Adams
Folder 96 Albatros
Folder 97 Alert
Folder 98 Beaver
Folder 99 HMS Cherub
Folder 100 Schooner Columbia
Folder 101 USS Constitution
Folder 102 Dolly Jane
Folder 103 Enterprise
Folder 104 USS Essex
Folder 105 Forrester
Folder 106 Hamilton
Folder 107 Isaac Todd
Folder 108 The Lark
Folder 109 HMS Laurel
Folder 110 New Hazard
Folder 111 Otter
Box 12
Folder 112 Pedler
Folder 113 HMS Phoebe
Folder 114 HMS Raccoon
Folder 115 HMS Raccoon: Research correspondence: 1929
Folder 116 Spanish Corvette, Santa Barbara
Folder 117 Small schooner purchased at Sandwich Islands
Folder 118 Spanish Frigate, Tagle
Folder 119 Tonquin
Folder 120 Tonquin, 1810‑1811
Folder 121 Tonquin: Research correspondence, 1929-1960
Folder 122 Tonquin: The Search for the Tonquin, by E.W. Giesecke, 1990
Folder 123 Tonquin: Notes by E.W. Giesecke, with tribute to Barry, 1997
Folder 124 Trading vessel at Astoria, 1813
Folder 125 British war vessel
Folder 126 Whaler
FILE 9:
BARLOW ROAD (AND OTHER EMIGRANT ROADS)
In 1846, Sam Barlow obtained a charter allowing him to cut a toll road from Tygh
Valley, Oregon, to the Willamette Valley, enabling westbound pioneers to leave
the Columbia River at The Dalles and avoid both the rapids and ferry charges.
Over its many years of operation, there were many course variations. Barry
traced much of the route on hand-drawn township maps, and was interested in
other cross-country routes from the Columbia to the Willamette. The file
includes several letters (1941-1942) from W.J. Williams, who was particularly
interested in the descent on the steep grade of Laurel Hill. For information on
other emigrant trails in Oregon, see the folders on Trails, Roads, and Routes
(Folders 1169-1177) in the Miscellaneous Subject file.
Box 12
Folder 127 Barlow
Road Map
Folder 128 Plats of the Barlow Road
Folder 129 Laurel Hill: Research correspondence, 1941-1942
Folder 130 Sandy River plat
Folder 131 Township plats, T1N, Ranges East
Folder 132 Township plats, T1S, Ranges East
Folder 133 Township plats, T2S, Ranges East
Folder 134 Towhship plats, T3S, Ranges East
Folder 135 Township plats, T4S, Ranges East
Folder 136 Township plats, T4S, Des Chutes Region
Folder 137 Township plats, T5S, Des Chutes Region
Folder 138 Township plats, T5S, Ranges East
Folder 139 Township plats, T6S, R12E
Folders 140 and 143 contain extensive lists of battles and other fights between
Indians and whites, mainly in Oregon. Folder 141 includes letters (1926) from
W.P. Gray, captain of the steamer Spokane, with his recollections of the
fighting involving his ship in 1878. Gray’s obituary is in Folder 867 in the
Miscellaneous Subject File. Portions of File 10 were microfilmed by the Oregon
State Library in the early 1950s. Notes on forts in Washington are found in
File 40, Forts: State of Washington.
Box 12
Folder 140 Battles
in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho): Lists
Folder 141 Bannock‑Paiute War (and Steamer Spokane), 1878
Folder 142 Battle of Evans Creek, August 24, 1853
Folder 143 Forts and battles in Oregon, by county: Lists
Folder 144 Forts and battles in Oregon: Camp Watson: Correspondence,
1924-1926
Correspondents include Mrs. D.H. Putnam
Folder 145 Data from Heitman's Historical Register and Dictionary of
the U.S. Army
Folder 146 Indian Wars. Accounts and reminiscences
Folder 147 Modoc War
Folder 148 Nez Perce War
Folder 149 Miscellaneous notes and articles. Includes Index of Battles
FILE 11:
BOISE, OLD FORT, AND REED FORT LOCATIONS
These folders pertain to Barry’s interest in the precise locations of the
successive fur-trading posts at the mouth of the Boise River established by John
Reed, Donald McKenzie, and Hudson’s Bay Company. By Barry’s time, the main
channel of the river had shifted considerably, relocating the river’s mouth and
complicating his search. He corresponded with historian Annie Laurie Bird and
other local people in attempting to locate the path of the original channel, and
prepared a number of hand-drawn maps. Some of the letters by Barry in these
files are photocopies (apparently made many years ago) of his originals letters
sent to personnel of the Idaho State Historical Society. Additional
correspondence about this topic is found in the correspondence with Eugene B.
Chaffee (Box 9, Folder 6); oversize maps are located in
Maps, Folder 1303.
Box 12
Folder 150 Research
correspondence, 1933-1941
Folder 151 Location of the Reed Forts and Boise Forts by JNB
Folder 152 Fort Boise
Folder 153 "Fort Boise," by Annie Laurie Bird
Folder 154 Fort Boise, by Eugene B. Chaffee, Idaho Statesman. August
26, 1934
Folder 155 Summary of locations of Reed, McKenzie, McKay post on the
Boise or near it
Folder 156 Fort Boise locations/maps and notes
Folder 157 Miscellaneous booklet of maps, notes, photostats
FILE 12:
BONNEVILLE, CAPTAIN
This file contains more than 100 letters to and from Barry chronicling his
interest in Captain Benjamin Bonneville’s explorations in the Pacific Northwest,
1832-1834, and the identification of places mentioned in Bonneville’s 18-page
handwritten report of July 1833, particularly places in Wyoming, Idaho, and
Oregon. Barry was instrumental in unearthing and publicizing the 1833 report
(found in War Department files). He prepared an annotated typescript (File 161)
from photostats he obtained from the War Department. The Washington
Historical Quarterly published a transcript from Barry’s photostats in July
1927, though he was critical of that work for its lack of annotations. Among
Barry’s correspondents in these files are B.W. Driggs, Philip Rand, and W.A. Ricks (Idaho) and
Grace Raymond Hebard (Wyoming). Additional letters about Bonneville are located
in Folder 1213, Wallowa region, in the Miscellaneous Subject File.
Box 13
Folder 158 Research
correspondence: 1925-1927
Folder 159 Research correspondence: 1928-1939
Folder 160 Correspondence pertaining to Bonneville in booklet form
Folder 161 Bonneville’s Report, transcribed and annotated by Barry
Folder 162 Bonneville's itinerary
Folder 163 Maps
Folder 164 Winter Cantonment, 1832
Folder 165 Article by Washington Irving, "The Adventure of Captain
Bonneville..."
Folder 166 Article by G. K. Warren, containing letters from Bonneville
FILE 13: BOUNDARIES, INTERNATIONAL
Barry traced the claims over time of European powers and the United States to
the territory of the Pacific Northwest, making note of developments,
chronologically, in a series of notebooks (in Folders 170-171). The file
includes some sketch maps but no correspondence. Much related material is found
in Files 84 to 87 (Treaties). See also
Miscellaneous Subject File for folders
on Colorado, Map of (Folder 795) and Northwest Boundary (Folder 1013).
Box 13
Folder 167 Spanish exploration and treaties
Folder 168 Russia on the Northwest coast: Northwest boundaries
Folder 169 Russians and French on Northwest coast
Folder 170 Boundary, 1801‑1820
Folder 171 Boundary, 1824‑1840
Folder 172 Notebook of photostats (U.S documents, 1873) pertaining to
the Oregon boundary
Folder 173 Article: 54 40 or Fight, by Paterson
Folder 174 Notes on article: The Oregon Treaty of 1846, by Sage
FILE 14: CANADA:
BRITISH COLUMBIA
See also Miscellaneous Subject File for Simon Fraser and Fraser River (Folders
845 and 846).
Box 14
Folder 175
Correspondence, Miscellaneous: 1926-1954
Folder 176 British Columbia
Folder 177 Coastal Indian Tribes
Folder 178 Interior Indian Tribes
Folder 179 Morice, A.G.: Notes and correspondence
Folder 180 Victoria's Oldest House
FILE
15: CANADA: HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY
The material in this file concentrates on the Hudson’s Bay company’s activities
and personnel in what became the American Pacific Northwest. See also
Maps, Folder 1305.
Box 13
Folder 181 Hudson’s Bay
Company
Folder 182 Proof sheets from Hunter Miller on settlement of HBC claims
(Treaty Series 128, Document 240)
Folder 183 Correspondence with Hunter Miller [See also
File
87, Treaties Concerning Oregon]
Folder 184 Employees, 1829‑1832, 1840‑1843: Lists
Folder 185 License to trade
Folder 186 Minutes of Council, 1830‑1843 (1834‑1838 omitted): extract notes by
Barry
Folder 187 Posts and forts: Fort Umpqua (Oregon): Correspondence, 1948-1949
Correspondents include E.O. Fuller and Hunter Miller
Folder 188 Value of Property
Folder 189 Miscellaneous articles clipped from Beaver, Canadian Historical
Review, etc., dealing with the activities of the Hudson’s Bay Company
Folder 190 Miscellaneous Articles II
Folder 191 Miscellaneous Articles III
FILE 16: CANADA: MAPS AND LIST OF FORTS
These files contains hand-drawn and commercial maps, as well as Barry’s notes,
about posts, forts, and routes of fur traders, in Canada, particularly British
Columbia.
Box 14
Folder 192
Athabasca Pass
Folder 193 Map lists, British Columbia
Folder 194 British Columbia, Hudson's Bay Company: Routes of travel,
trails, etc. Hand‑drawn maps and notes
Folder 195 Maps showing Hudson’s Bay Company fur trading posts
Folder 196 Forts in Canada: lists
Folder 197 The Grand Portage
Folder 198 Routes of travel: Maps
Folder 199 Jasper National Park (Athabasca Pass)
Folder 200 The Route to Montreal
FILE 17:
CASCADES
Barry was interested in the natural history of the Cascades of the Columbia
River and the Indian legends of the Bridge of the Gods, as well as the military
history of the vicinity, particularly the battle there in 1856. Barry mixed his
notes in some of his booklets, so some of these folders contain notes on aspects
of the Cascades not indicated by the folder titles. Folder 209 contains a
printed prospectus for building the 1926 steel Bridge of the Gods (also found in
Folder 288). Correspondents in the Sheridan Point file (Folder 208) include D.A. Brown, who
wrote about the restored Fort Rains there as well as other Columbia River
blockhouses. More notes and letters about the Cascades are in
File 29 (Columbia
River: Drowned Forest).
Box 14
Folder 201 Bridge
of the Gods: Correspondence, 1929-1937
Folder 202 The Bridge of the Gods on the Columbia River, by J.N.B.
Folder 203 Battle at the Cascades, March 26‑28, 1856. Notes and
correspondence
Folder 204 Bibliography, Cascades. 1849
Folder 205 Cascades Cemetery
Folder 206 Fort Gilliam
Folder 207 Massacre at Cascades, 1856
Folder 208 Sheridan Point
Folder 209 Clippings and Bridge of the Gods prospectus
In 1936, J. Neilson Barry published a series of articles in the Capital
Journal (Salem, Oregon), entitled “How Oregon Was Acquired: An Expose of the
Champoeg Myth.” In particular, he wished to debunk a popular notion that
Oregon became part of the United States by a vote of its early settlers at
Champoeg on May 2, 1843. He believed that the importance of the May 2 meeting
was exaggerated in other respects, too, including the claim that it represented
the beginnings of civil government in Oregon. These files reflect his
continuing research on what exactly took place at various meetings at Champoeg,
who was there, the wording of monuments and signage at Champoeg State Park, and
the broader question of the origins of civil government by the American settlers
in Oregon. See also the folders on Ewing Young’s estate (Folders 1264-1267) in
the Miscellaneous Subject file. Portions of Barry’s Champoeg files were
microfilmed by the Oregon State Library in the early 1950s.
Box 14
Folder 210
Correspondence, 1925-1937
Folder 211 Correspondence, 1938-1939
Folder 212 Correspondence, 1940-1944
Folder 213 Correspondence, 1948-1960
Folder 214 Articles: How Oregon Was Acquired, by JNB
Folder 215 Articles: Champoeg Humbugs and other summations by JNB
Folder 216 Articles: Champoeg Meeting of March 4, 1844, by JNB
Folder 217 Articles: First Local Government in Oregon, 1841, by JNB
Folder 218 Articles: Primary Sources to Early Government, by JNB
Folder 219 Champoeg address by Rex Putnam, 1939, with correspondence
Folder 220 McNary bill
Folder 221 Champoeg Park, Museum: State Legislation
Folder 222 Report on Champoeg by Charles Hicks, 1937
Folder 223 An Evaluation of the Champoeg Meeting, by Robert W. Rowe,
1950
Folder 224 Clippings and notes regarding civil government in Oregon
Folder 225 Article reprints from the Oregon Historical Quarterly
Folder 226 Notes: Alcaldes, Local government in Jackson County
Folder 227 Notes on laws
Folder 228 Pioneers: Miscellaneous notes on persons
Folder 229 Provisional Government: Notes and Articles
Folder 230 Provisional Government: Notes and lists of names
Folder 231 Civil Government. Notes and synopses
FILE 19: CHAMPOEG II:
MAPS AND PLATS
J. Neilson Barry made a detailed study of early land ownership and donation
claims in the Champoeg vicinity. He created detailed hand-drawn maps of the
townships and sections, noting early ownership and the presence of structures
such as barns, houses, etc. See also Maps, Folder
1306.
Box 15
Folder 232 Champoeg
locality
Folder 233 Township 3 South, Ranges 1 West and 2 West
Folder 234 Township 4 South, Ranges 1, 2, 3, and 4 West, 1 East
Folder 235 Land Donation claims (Ady, Billique, Despard, La Framboise,
Langtain, Lucier, Newell)
Folder 236 Plats of Champoeg village
Folder 237 Newberg, Campment Du Sable (mainly notes)
FILE 20: CHAMPOEG III: SOURCE DOCUMENTS
Chiefly photostats of
primary source documents Barry used in his research and prepared for duplication
and distribution. For maps of Champoeg Park, see Maps,
Folder 1306.
Box 15
Folder 238 Persons
by name, A‑Ma
Folder 239 Persons by name, John McLoughlin
Folder 240 Persons by name, N‑Z
Folder 241 Champoeg Park: Legislative appropriations
Folder 242 Champoeg Park: Conclusions, with evaluation of site, by C.R.
Hicks, 1937
Folder 243 Champoeg Park: Miscellaneous documents
Folder 244 Champoeg Park: Memorial inscription (Maud Mattley, DAR)
Folder 245 Champoeg. Poem by Jeanette Green
Folder 246 Parrish, J.L. Oregon anecdotes
Folder 247 French petition or "addresse"
Folder 248 Executive Documents, U.S. Congress, 1872‑73
Folder 249 Names of persons who voted...
Folder 250 Souvenir of the 80th Anniversary of the Organization of the
First American Civil Government West of the Rocky Mountains….
FILE 21: CHRONOLOGY OF OREGON
Notations, year by year, on important events in Oregon,
with bibliographical references.
Box 15
251 Chronology, 1500
to1829
252 Chronology, 1830 to1879
FILE 22:
CLATSOP BEACH
[moved to
File 56,
Lewis and Clark on Lower Columbia, Folder 501]
John Colter, one of the members of the Lewis and Clark expedition, returned to
the Rocky Mountains as a trapper after the conclusion of the expedition in
1806. On William Clark’s 1814 map, Clark added the route of Colter’s travels in
1807. The anomalies and inaccuracies of that map have given rise to questions
about Colter’s actual route, however. Barry pursued the problem, analyzing the
information and trying to sort out the verifiable geographic locales from the
disputable ones. He also investigated the 1933 discovery of a stone in eastern
Idaho with an inscription allegedly by John Colter. More information on the
latter is also found in File 39, Fort Henry / Carved Stones.
Correspondents include Merrill D. Beal, Carl E. Jepson, Roy A. Phillips, John E.
Price, and Howard R. Stagner. See also Maps,
Folder 1307.
Box 15
Folder 253 Research
correspondence, 1929-1937
Folder 254 Research correspondence, 1938-1946
Folder 255 Research correspondence, 1947-1954
Folder 256 Notes and problems on John Colter: Barry’s summation
Folder 257 Bradbury and others on Colter
Folder 258 1814 Colter Map
Folder 259 Colter Stone
Folder 260 Miscellaneous notes, maps, and printed material
Folder 261 Newspaper account of opposition to Jackson Hole National
Monument Proposal
Folder 262 Cody / Big Horn promotional materials
FILE
24: COLTER, JOHN: MAPS
Box 15
Folder 263 JNB’s
notes and miscellaneous writings
Folder 264 Tracings of Maps
Folder 265 Barry's Worksheets for drawing maps (1)
Box 16
Folder 266 Barry's
Worksheets for drawing maps (2)
FILE 25: COLTER, JOHN: OLD MAPS
Box 16
Folder 267
Miscellaneous file of Mr. Barry's earlier attempts to map Colter's route
Folder 268 Miscellaneous file of Mr. Barry's earlier attempts to map
Colter's route
FILE 26: COLUMBIA RIVER: LT. BROUGHTON
One of Barry’s primary historical interests was the identification of places
named by early explorers of the Columbia River. He sought to restore the names
those explorers gave to those places and, in pursuit of that goal, conducted an
active correspondence with the U.S. Board of Geographic Names. File 26 centers
around the exploration by Lieutenant William Broughton of the Royal Navy, who in
1792, during Vancouver’s voyage to the Northwest coast, entered the river and
charted it as far as a point he named Point Vancouver. There is information
about Barry’s attempts to identify Broughton’s Point Vancouver both in this file
and File 32, Columbia River: Point Vancouver. This file also documents Barry’s
efforts to memorialize Broughton. Correspondents include Broughton's
grandson Bertram R. Mitford (Folder 271). See also File 88 on Captain George
Vancouver, and Folder 749 in the Miscellaneous subject files on Edward Bell and
the search for his journal, which also relate to Broughton’s Columbia River
explorations. A photostat of Broughton's chart of the river is in Folder
1308, Maps.
Box 16
Folder 269
Research Correspondence: 1926-1928
Folder 270 Research Correspondence: 1929
Folder 271 Research Correspondence: 1930-1951
Folder 272 Correspondence notebook: 1928
Folder 273 Depth of water and Patton report
Folder 274 Broughton’s filed notes and observation angles
Folder 275 Broughton’s journal: Correspondence, 1929
Folder 276 Broughton Bluff: Correspondence, 1926
Folder 277 Flag Island: Correspondence, 1929
Folder 278 Friendly Reach / Vancouver expedition
Folder 279 Broughton’s Point Possession
Folder 280 Belle Vue Point
Folder 281 Belle Vue Point: Correspondence, 1926-1933
Correspondents include H.G. Halkett of Willamette River Light
Station
Folder 282 Broughton map and exploration
Folder 283 Broughton and Point Vancouver: Maps
FILE 27: COLUMBIA RIVER II
Barry’s concise summation of Broughton’s
exploration of the river, extracted from Vancouver’s Voyage of Discovery
and Edward Bell’s journal.
Box 16
Folder 284 First
Exploration of the Columbia River
FILE 28: COLUMBIA RIVER III
These folders contain notes and correspondence about the Columbia River,
chiefly (but not exclusively) about physical aspects of the river. His short
essay, “The Unanswered Question” (Folder 300), addresses the extent of the
river; i.e. whether the salt waters of the lower Columbia can properly be
considered part of the river at all, or whether they are really an inlet of the
ocean; a question that has bearing on who should be credited with discovering
the river: Heceta, Gray, or Broughton. The question is also explored in Barry’s
file of correspondence with the Canadian Geographic Journal and Royal
Geographical Society (Folder 287). More information about this can be
found in File 43 (Heceta); and Folders 864-865 in the
Miscellaneous Subject file on Captain Robert Gray.
See also Maps, Folder 1309.
Box 16
Folder 285 Research
Correspondence: 1923-1933
Folder 286 Research Correspondence: 1939-1959
Folder 287 Correspondence with Canadian Geographical Journal and Royal
Geographical Society: 1930-1933
Folder 288 Correspondence with Lewis R. Williams: 1930
Folder 289 Bridge of Gods (Steel bridge prospectus)
Folder 290 Explorations of the Columbia and Snake Rivers
Folder 291 High Water Stages
Folder 292 Columbia River in Washington
Folder 293 Naming of Columbia River and British Columbia, by Basil G. Hamilton
Folder 294 Navigation, Columbia Bar
Folder 295 Columbia River maps by JNB
Folder 296 Columbia River maps by JNB
Folder 297 Picture maps of the Columbia
Folder 298 Reed Island
Folder 299 Salinity of Water
Folder 300 The Unanswered Question
FILE 29: COLUMBIA RIVER
IV: DROWNED FOREST
The notes and correspondence in these folders pertain primarily to the drowned
(or submerged) forest in the Columbia River, above the Cascade rapids, whose
snags protruding above the water were noted by early travelers during periods of
low water.
Box 17
Folder 301 Research
correspondence, 1934-1937
Folder 302 Cascades, Bridge of the Gods, and Submerged Forest: Notes and
charts
Folder 303 Statements of early travelers (extracts)
Folder 304 Statements of early travelers (extracts)
Folder 305 References
Folder 306 Drowned Forest: Photo and ms. map
Folder 307 Submerged Forest of the Columbia River Gorge, by D. B.
Lawrence (1936)
FILE 30: COLUMBIA RIVER V
Folder 308
"Columbia River and Minor Tributaries" (1933) [Removed and cataloged]
FILE 31: COLUMBIA RIVER VI: COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE AND HIGHWAY
Box 17
Folder 309 Columbia
River Gorge and Mt. Hood, by R. J. Grace (Union Pacific Railroad)
Folder 310 Columbia River Gorge, from an open observation car (Union
Pacific Railroad)
Folder 311 Pamphlets about Columbia River Highway
Folder 312 Travelers in the Columbia River Gorge, by year, 1792‑1834
FILE 32: COLUMBIA RIVER VII: POINT VANCOUVER
This file, consisting chiefly of correspondence, documents Barry’s efforts to
identify the site along the river that Lt. Broughton named Point Vancouver in
1792. Barry’s correspondence extended to the British Admiralty Office, from
whom he obtained a photostat of Broughton’s chart of the Columbia, confirming
the conclusions he had made in 1928 from his comparison of Broughton’s narrative
and astronomical observations (recorded in Vancouver’s Voyage of Discovery)
to modern charts and maps, his own site visits, and consultations with river
experts. An article summarizing Barry’s work was published in the Portland
Oregonian on January 1, 1933 (Folder 318). Barry also sought
recognition of the site by the U.S. Board of Geographic Names, a task
complicated by an earlier identification of Broughton’s Point Vancouver as
Cottonwood Point. Correspondents include historian T.C. Elliott, Fred C.
Schubert of the Army Corps of Engineers (Portland), and Captain R.S. Patton,
Director of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, whose investigation and report
convinced the U.S. Board of Geographic Names to accept Barry's location..
Additional information about the identification of Point Vancouver is also found
in File 26, Columbia River: Lt. Broughton. A copy
of the Patton report is found there, in Folder 273. A photostat of
Broughton's chart is located in Maps, Folder 1308.
Box 17
Folder 313 Point
Vancouver: Notes
Folder 314 Correspondence notebook: 1926-1929
Folder 315 Correspondence, Chronological: 1926-1929
Folder 316 Correspondence, Chronological: 1930
Folder 317 Correspondence, Chronological: 1930-1939
Folder 318 Newspaper article, “Point Vancouver Location Settled” (1933)
Folder 319 Names on Broughton's map
Folder 320 Notes regarding the name Point Vancouver
Folder 321 Cottonwood Point
FILE 33: COX, ROSS
Barry was interested in
tracing the “lost wanderings” of the Astorian Ross Cox in what is now eastern
Washington in August 1812. Among his correspondents was Otto Wollweber, of
Reardan, Washington, who was familiar with many of the old trails. Barry’s
annotated copy of Cox’s Adventures on the Columbia River (1831) is
located in the Special Collections Department. A map by Barry of Cox's
wanderings is in Folder 1310, Maps.
Box 17
Folder 322 Research
correspondence: 1933-1956
Folder 323 Names, summary draft
Folder 324 Judge Carey's notes on Ross Cox
Folder 325 Summary (4th) of Cox’s Adventures on the Columbia
River
Folder 326 Lost Wanderings: Draft maps
FILE 34: DAY, JOHN
One of the last controversies Barry entered into concerned the alleged burial
site of the Astorian John Day and the question whether or not he was a veteran
of the Revolutionary War. In 1953, the Daughters and Sons of the American
Revolution recognized a traditional gravesite on Birch Creek, Clark County,
Idaho, as the place, and had it marked accordingly. Almost immediately that was
challenged, and eventually the Sons of the
American Revolution asked that the marker be
taken down. Much of the controversy hinged on whether Birch Creek or some other
stream was the one known in the 19th century as John Day’s River.
Barry contributed to the investigations by supplying copies of historic maps of
the vicinity showing that the Little Lost River, not Birch Creek, was that
stream. Barry’s correspondents include J.A. Harrington and E.C. Phoenix, both
of whom questioned the Birch Creek site, as well as Ellen Fourt, J.R. Gobble,
Lula H. Lough, and Marion C. Orr. See also File 38
on the Ferris Map and Folder 1311, Maps.
Box 17
Folder 327 Biographical
notes
Folder 328 Marker and gravesite: Correspondence, 1953
Folder 329 Marker and gravesite: Correspondence, 1953-1959
Folder 330 Notes regarding the John Day marker
Folder 331 Sons of the American Revolution report, 1957
Folder 332 Notes, Birch Creek massacre, 1877 (Nez Perce War)
Folder 333 Maps: Kittson, 1825
Folder 334 Maps: Bonneville, 1837
Folder 335 Maps: Arrowsmith, 1837-1844
Folder 336 Maps: Mullan, 1853
Folder 337 Maps: Compilations / Idaho's Queer Basin
FILE 35: DORION FAMILY
The travails and heroic survival of Marie Dorion,
the only female member of the Wilson Price Hunt party, were related by
Washington Irving, Ross Cox, and other early chroniclers of the West, but the
details of her life story and whereabouts afterwards remained as obscure
Sacajawea’s until J. Neilson Barry ferreted them out of church and civil records
(from St. Louis to Oregon) and found elderly people who remembered her. His
findings were published in the Oregon Historical Quarterly in 1929 as
“Madame Dorion of the Astorians.” W.J. Ghent, who wrote Dorion’s entry in the
Dictionary of American Biography, credited Barry with the breakthrough.
“My sketch for the Dictionary will be recalled and amended to accord with
your discoveries. Fortunately the D’s have not yet been reached in the
printing…I trust that you will keep me informed of any further discoveries you
make” (June 11, 1929, in Folder 342). The letters and notes in these folders
document Barry’s research. One of his principal informants was Isabel Bertrand,
who not only remembered Madame Dorion but also recounted the history of her own
family, the Aubichons, early settlers of the French Prairie vicinity on the
Willamette (Folder 341). Other correspondents include Cleveland S. Simkins,
a Dorion descendant, and Vera Joyce Nelson.
Box 18
Folder 338 Research
correspondence: 1928-1929
Folder 339 Research correspondence: 1930-1953 PHOTO
Folder 340 Correspondence: Dictionary of American Biography: 1929-1930
Folder 341 Correspondence: With French Prairie, Old settlers: 1929-1932
Folder 342 Correspondence: Ghent, W.J.: 1929
Folder 343 Correspondence: Idaho: 1929-1935
Folder 344 Correspondence: Roman Catholic: 1929-1935
Folder 345 Correspondence: South Dakota: 1929 (including Doane
Robinson)
Folder 346 Attempt to identify with Topaz
Folder 347 References to all Dorion names including index
Folder 348 Marie Dorion: Church records and burial records
Folder 349 Marie Dorion: Notes on family members, and marker in
Caldwell, ID
Folder 350 Footnote to follow article "Madam Dorion" by JNB
Folder 351 Dorion family: Miscellaneous
FILE 36: DISCOVERIES, MISCELLANEOUS
Box 18
Folder 352 Miscellaneous
article offprints I
Folder 353 Miscellaneous article offprints II
FILE 37: DOUGLAS, DAVID
Barry traced out and mapped Scottish botanist David Douglas’ travels in
the Pacific Northwest, 1826-1827, through a close reading of his journal.
Box 18
Folder 354 Article by A.
R. Sweeter
Folder 355 Journals 1825‑1827: Notes and extracts
Folder 356 Summary of journals
The map by fur trader Warren Angus Ferris was one of the
keys disproving the alleged gravesite of John Day (see File 34, John Day).
Folder 359 contains Barry’s hand drawn worksheets tracing Ferris’ map and
comparing it to modern maps. Correspondents include J. Cecil Alter and Fred Rosenstock.
Box 18
Folder 357
Correspondence: 1954
Folder 358 Journal: Extracts and notes
Folder 359 W. A. Ferris Map: Worksheets
FILE 39: FORT HENRY / CARVED STONES
The notes and correspondence in these folders relate primarily to finding the
site of Andrew Henry’s fort and trading post in the upper Snake River region of
eastern Idaho, and to attempts to authenticate two stones allegedly inscribed by
members of Henry’s party. Correspondents include historians Merrill D. Beal,
Charles Kelley, Susie Boice Trego, and F.A. Miller of St. Anthony, Idaho, owner of the two
Fort Henry stones. Barry studied the route and personnel of the 1871 Hayden
survey of the Yellowstone region to determine if any members of that party could
have left the stones; see File 42, Hayden Survey (Box 19, Folders 379 and 380)
for those notes. There is also information about a stone allegedly inscribed by
John Colter in 1808, and one allegedly left by an early Hudson’s Bay Company
party in Stevenson, Washington. For information about stones allegedly carved
by William Clark in 1805, see File 48, Lewis and Clark Expedition, Clark stones
(Box 21, Folder 441).
Box 18
Folder 360
Correspondence: 1927-1955
Folder 361 Major Andrew Henry notes
Folder 362 Map of Henry's Fort
Folder 363 Idaho Carved Stones. Rubbings and photos (ca. 1933)
PHOTOS
Folder 364 Map of Fort Henry area
Folder 365 Carved stone at Stevenson, Washington: 1929, 1960
FILE
40: FORTS: STATE OF WASHINGTON
Miscellaneous materials about military forts and trading posts in early
Washington. Notes on forts in Oregon are found in File 10, Battles.
Box 19
Folder 366 Forts:
Listing
Folder 367 Forts: A‑C
Folder 368 Forts: E-L
Folder 369 Forts: M, N, O
Folder 370 Forts: P-Z
Folder 371 Forts: Fort Bennett: 1934-1941
Folder 372 Forts: Fort Columbia: 1951-1954
Folder 373 Forts: Fort Colville: 1945-1949
Folder 374 Forts: Fort Okanogan: 1952-1960
Folder 375 Forts: Fort Walla Walla
Folder 376 Miscellaneous forts
FILE 41: ROBERT FRAZER
MAP
J. Neilson Barry worked to correlate the place names and geographic features on
Robert Frazer’s map (1807) of Lewis and Clark’s explorations with modern maps.
Box
19
Folder 377 Barry’s
manuscript maps and essays
Folder 378 Barry’s manuscript maps: working drafts
FILE 42: HAYDEN SURVEY
Barry traced the route of the Hayden survey in the Yellowstone area, 1871. One
of his motivations to do this was his belief that at least one of the carved
stones (“Al, the cook….”) found in eastern Idaho (File 39) might have been left
by this survey team. See also File 39 (Fort Henry / Carved Stones).
Box 19
Folder 379 Sidford Hamp
diary, 1872 (reprint)
Folder 380 Notes by JNB
FILE 43: HECETA,
CAPTAIN BRUNO
Barry was interested in identifying the geographic features on Heceta’s chart of
the mouth of the Columbia River (1775) and calculating the position of Heceta’s
ship when he drew it. He published a summary of his findings in the Portland
Oregonian on September 20, 1931, maintaining that the chart should settle
the dispute as to whether the mouth of the Columbia is actually an inlet of the
ocean or a part of the river proper. Additional information may be found in
File
28 (Columbia River III) and in his file of correspondence with the Canadian
Geographic Journal (Box 16, Folder 287). See also
Maps, Folder 1314.
Box 19
Folder 381 Research
correspondence: 1930-1938
Folder 382 Correspondence and notes
Folder 383 Heceta's River Chart, by JNB
Folder 384 Schooner Sonora
FILE 44: INDIANS
This file consists chiefly of research correspondence, references to primary
sources, and clippings, about Indians in Oregon and Washington. Barry was
particularly interested in sorting out the tribes and linguistic families in
Washington (Folders 405 to 407), agricultural practices of Oregon and Washington
Indians (Folder 386), and the sources of the iron and copper weapons the Indians
of the Columbia possessed when first encountered by American and European
explorers (Folder 388). Among his correspondents on the latter topic were
George G. Heye and Arthur A. Woodward, who wrote a long letter on the subject.
See Barry’s
articles on the linguistic families of Washington and
Oregon Indians (Box 6, Folders 19 and 20) and on copper weapons (Box 5, Folder
14). See also File 14 (Canada: British Columbia) for Barry’s notes on British
Columbia Indians; names of tribes in the Miscellaneous Subject file; and the
folders on Pictographs (Folder 1048), Religious Observances in Oregon (Folder
1077), and Tobacco (Folders 1160 and 1161) in the Miscellaneous Subject File.
There is a good deal of correspondence with
Ellen Center, a Tillamook Indian, regarding Chief Kilchis, his ancestry and
descendants in the Miscellaneous Subject File, Folder 1158 (Tillamook Indians).
Box 19
Folder 385 Indians
(Lists of tribes and linguistic groups in Oregon and Washington)
Folder 386 Agriculture by Indians
Folder 387 Agriculture by Indians: Correspondence, 1928
Folder 388 Battle-axes and swords, Iron: Research correspondence, 1931-1949
Folder 389 Catholic missions: Correspondence, 1937-1954
Folder 390 Chiefs (alphabetically)
Folder 391 Diseases and medicine
Folder 392 Food
Folder 393 Index in Portland Library
Folder 394 Miscellaneous notes and clippings
Folder 395 Mounds
Folder 396 Maps: Indians of Oregon Country, by R. L. Benson
Folder 397 Number of Indians
Folder 398 Bronze plaques of Indian chiefs (Museum of the American
Indian)
Folder 399 Relics: Correspondence, 1924-1949
Folder 400 Spokane Princess, Jessie Jim: Clippings
Folder 401 Textiles
Folder 402 Chief Timothy: Clippings
Folder 403 Veterans of Indian Wars: Clippings
Folder 404 Indians in Washington
Folder 405 Indians in Washington and Oregon: Research
correspondence, 1926-1958
Correspondents include H.C. Coe
Folder 406 The Seven Indian Nations of Washington, Notes by JNB
Folder 407 The Seven Indian Nations of Washington, Summation by JNB
Folder 408
Indian Words: Letters from Archibald F.
Robertson, 1952
Folder 409 Nathaniel J. Wyeth's description, 1834
Folder 410 W. P. Clark. Indian Sign Language, 1885
Folder 411 George Bird Grinnell. Cheyenne Indians..., 1924
Folder 412 Hopi Indian Reservation
FILE 45: LA HONTAN,
BARON
Most of the letters in the correspondence file (Folder 413) concern Barry’s
attempts to determine if the Minnesota River, rather than the Missouri, was the “Long River” described by
French explorer, the Baron de la Hontan, in the published version of this
travels. Correspondents include Louis D. Powers, of Ortonville, Minnesota, who
was familiar with the local geography. Barry was also interested in La Hontan’s
descriptions of Indians and geography of the West. See also
Maps, Folder 1317.
Box 20
Folder 413 Research
correspondence: 1950-1952
Folder 414 Bearded Indians
Folder 415 Earliest Description of Colorado Rockies
Folder 416 "The Murdered Map of La Hontan" (Essay by JNB)
Folder 417 Miscellaneous notes
Folder 418 New Voyages to North America
Folder 419 Miscellaneous articles
Folder 420 Worksheets for maps
FILE 46: LEE, JASON
Barry was “not a great
admirer of Jason Lee, as a missionary, a husband, or a man” (February 10,
1932). He opposed the placement of a statue of Lee in the U.S. Capitol as well
as the issuance of a postage stamp in his honor. Barry studied the surveys of
the U.S.-Canadian border and insisted Lee was born in Canada rather than in
Vermont, and considered him a transient, not an Oregon settler eligible to
represent the state on either a postage stamp or in Statuary Hall. Correspondents in this file include Richard G. Montgomery, who proposed writing
a novelized version of Lee’s life.
Box 20
Folder 421 Correspondence
about Jason Lee: 1927-1952
Folder 422 Biography
Folder 423 Clippings
Folder 424 Notes / List
of Protestant missionaries
Folder 425 Postage stamp,
1948
Folder 426 Printed
booklets
Folder 427 Permanent
settlers, 1834
Folder 428 Statue of
Jason Lee, U.S. Capitol
Folder 429 General
problems in research
FILE 47: LEE, JASON:
OLD METHODIST MISSION
Barry conducted intensive
research in land and survey records to pinpoint the location of Jason’s Lee’s
mission building. Portions of this file were microfilmed by the Oregon State
Library in the early 1950s. See also Maps, Folder
1319.
Box 20
Folder 430 Mission site:
Correspondence, 1940-1941
Folder 431 Plats by JNB
Folder 432 Township
boundary and section lines
Folder 433 Meanders of
the river
Folder 434 Donation land
claims
Folder 435 R. J.
Hendricks’ "Bits for Breakfast" 1940
Folder 436 "Old Mill‑‑Old
Mission," by Oswald West
Folder 437 Resurvey, 1921
FILE 48: LEWIS AND
CLARK EXPEDITION
J. Neilson Barry was interested in many aspects of the Lewis and Clark
expedition besides their route of travel. File 48 contains folders on a
variety of topics. The most extensive folder pertains to one of the
expedition’s presentation medals owned by Mrs. Mary V. Lane, of Underwood,
Washington (Folder 452). Correspondents include
Mrs. Lane and D.A. Brown.
Box 21
Folder 438 Miscellaneous
correspondence: 1928-1959
Folder 439 Astronomical
observations
Folder 440 Branding iron
Folder 441 Clark stones,
1805: Photos and rubbings PHOTOS
Folder 442 Commemorations, 1945
Folder 443 Costume:
Correspondence, 1935-1939
Folder 444 Costume:
Notes
Folder 445 Dog belonging
to Lewis
Folder 446 Frenchmen in
Dakotas who joined expedition temporarily
Folder 447 Invoice of
goods
Folder 448 Journal
extracts: Gass and Whitehouse on Clearwater River
Folder 449 Journal
extracts: Gass, Ordway, Whitehouse
Folder 450 Letter from
Clark to General George Rogers Clark
Folder 451 Iron loop for
dugouts found at Armstead, Montana
Folder 452 Medals:
Correspondence, 1927-1940
Folder 453 Multnomah and
Oregon Rivers
Folder 454 Names of
persons
Folder 455 Names of
places
Folder 456 Notes from
Ordway’s journal
Folder 457 Notes from Thwaites
Folder 458 Passports
Folder 459 Published
journals: Correspondence, 1949-1950
Folder 460 Rocky Mountain region of Mountana
Folder 461 Salt cairn,
Seaside, Oregon
Folder 462 Shoshones
mentioned Pacific Ocean
Folder 463 Spontoon
Folder 464
Cath‑la‑poh‑tle weapons, by JNB (article)
Folder 465 Weapons of
Indians
FILE 49: LEWIS AND
CLARK EXPEDITION: PATRICK GASS
Barry took detailed notes
on the journal of Patrick Gass. He corresponded with Donegan Wiggins and others
about marking Gass’ grave in West Virginia, and with Rufus Rockwell Wilson
(Press of the Pioneers) about publishing an annotated version of Gass’ journal.
Box 21
Folder 466 Gravesite and
Journal: Correspondence, 1926-1935
Folder 467 Journal
illustrations
Folder 468 Journal:
Notes I
Folder 469 Journal:
Notes II
FILE 50: LEWIS AND
CLARK EXPEDITION: SACAJAWEA
Sacajawea was not a major
research interest of Barry’s, but he did compile some notes regarding her name
and her role with the Lewis and Clark expedition. His thinking is summarized in
a letter of January 22, 1949 (Folder 470) in which he calls Sacajawea “an
interpreter…not a guide.” Among his correspondents was Grace Raymond Hebard,
who advanced the thesis that Sacajawea died at the Wind River reservation,
Wyoming, in 1884. Hebard supplied Barry with typescripts of some of the
testimony she incorporated into the appendices of her book (1933), as well as
some material not published. Though Barry considered Miss Hebard an “amiable
lady, highly esteemed,” he did not accept her theory and wrote at considerable
length to refute it.
Box 21
Folder 470 Research
correspondence: 1929-1953
Folder 471 Grace Raymond Hebard: Manuscript and correspondence, 1928-1931
Folder 472 Notes; Name;
Maps
Folder 473 Miscellaneous
articles
FILE 51: LEWIS AND CLARK
EXPEDITION: EAST OF THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE
Barry’s main interest in
Lewis and Clark was tracing the course of their route back and forth across the
continent and identifying the places they mentioned in their journals. Files 51
through 57 contain his correspondence, notes, and hand-drawn maps toward that
end. Though he was interested in the entire Lewis and Clark trail, Barry’s most
extensive research involved the land (as opposed to river) portions of the
route, in what are now Montana, Wyoming, and especially Idaho. He corresponded
with local historians, surveyors, Forest Service personnel, and others familiar
with the areas the expedition traversed.
Box 21
Folder 474 Saint Louis
(1804) to Great Falls
Folder 475 Great Falls to
Three Forks
Folder 476 Three Forks to Armstead, Montana
Folder 477 Three Forks to
Big Hole Basin: Correspondence, 1935
Correspondents include George R. Metlen
Folder 478 Return, 1806
Folder 479 Return: Big
Hole Basin (Clark, 1806)
Folder 480 Lewis battle,
1806
Folder 481 Thompson Creek
Folder 482 Yellowstone
region (Clark, 1806)
FILE 52: LEWIS AND CLARK
EXPEDITION: LEMHI REGION
Barry’s correspondents in
File 52 include John N. Kinney, supervisor, Salmon National Forest. See also Albertsons Library's
online exhibit, Plotting the Course of
Lewis and Clark Through Idaho, which draws on this File.
Box 22
Folder 483 Lemhi region:
Research correspondence: 1932-1955
Folder 484 Lemhi region:
Original journals (extracts), August 1805
Folder 485 Lemhi region:
Notes
Folder 486 Lemhi region:
Clark’s trip on Salmon River, August 1805
Folder 487 Lemhi region:
Summary, August 1805
FILE 53: LEWIS AND
CLARK EXPEDITION: LOLO TRAIL
Barry’s principal
correspondents in this File are Elers Koch and Roy A. Phillips of the U.S.
Forest Service. See also Albertsons Library's
online exhibit, Plotting the Course of
Lewis and Clark Through Idaho, which draws on this File.
Box 22
Folder 488 Lolo Trail:
Research correspondence, 1932-1958
Folder 489 Lolo Trail:
Hungry Creek to Koose Kee River
Folder 490 Lolo Trail:
Journals
Folder 491 Lolo Trail:
Plat of courses on ridge
Folder 492 Lolo Trail:
Notes on route from Hungry Creek to Weippe prairie
Folder 493 Lolo Trail:
Eastward on the Lolo Trail: Journals
Folder 494 Lolo Trail:
Patrick Gass, Notes
Folder 495 Lolo Trail:
Maps
FILE 54: LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION:
CLEARWATER RIVER
See also Albertsons Library's
online exhibit, Plotting the Course of
Lewis and Clark Through Idaho, which draws on this File.
Box 22
Folder 496 On the Clearwater: Abstracts of journals, westward march, 1805
Folder 497 On the
Clearwater: Abstracts of journals, eastward march, 1806
FILE 55: LEWIS AND CLARK
EXPEDITION: ON THE SNAKE AND COLUMBIA RIVERS
Box 22
Folder 498 Lewiston to
the Dalles
Folder 499 Cascades of
the Columbia
FILE 56: LEWIS AND CLARK
EXPEDITION: ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA
Box 22
Folder 500 Campsite of
Clark: April 4, 1806 by JNB
Folder 501 Clatsop Beach [formerly File 22]
Folder 502 Fort Clatsop
Folder 503 Journal of
Sergeant John Ordway
Folder 504 Multnomah
Indians with Maps and notes
Folder 505 Notes
Folder 506 Sandy River
Folder 507 Sauvie Island
Folder 508 Sighting the
Pacific / Seaside, Oregon
Folder 509 St. Helen’s
neighborhood
Folder 510 Vancouver and
Washougal neighborhoods
Folder 511 Mouth of
Columbia (6 maps)
Folder 512 Maps by JNB
FILE 57: LEWIS AND
CLARK EXPEDITION: MAPS
In this File are notes and
short essays about the various 19th century maps of the Lewis and
Clark expedition, Barry’s correspondence about those maps, and some of his own
hand-drawn maps. See also Maps, Folders
1320a-1320h.
Box 23
Folder 513 Lewis and
Clark in Idaho, Maps by JNB
Folder 514 Tracings, etc.
by JNB
Folder 515 Herman Friis
article, 1954
Folder 516 This number not used
Folder 517 Clark maps: Correspondence, 1926-1959
Folder 518 Clark’s
manuscript map superimposed on a Montana map
Folder 519 Clark’s manuscript map (Yale): Tracings
Folder 520 Colter route on Clark manuscript map
Folder 521 Colter route on 1814 etching
Folder 522 Dalles map
Folder 523 Drouillard map
of 1808
Folder 524 Drouillard map
of 1808: Correspondence, 1940-1951
Folder 525 Frazer map:
Correspondence, 1954-1955
Folder 526 Frazer map
Folder 527 Kamiah map
(made by Indians, of Hell’s Canyon)
Folder 528 Lewis map of
1806
Folder 529 Mandan Indian
map
Folder 530 McVicar map
Folder 531 Misplacement
of Continental Divide
Folder 532 Textbook maps
showing route of journey
FILE 58: LISA, MANUEL
Moved to Miscellaneous Subject File, Folder 954
(Lisa, Manuel)
FILE 59: MARIAS PASS
Barry was interested in the
history of Marias Pass in northwestern Montana, particularly knowledge of it by
traders, trappers, and explorers in the early 19th century. The
assertion that it was discovered in 1889 by John Frank Stevens, a
surveyor-engineer for the Great Northern Railway, seemed unreasonable to him, so
he searched for earlier references in journals and on early maps.
Correspondents include Ralph Budd, Lew L. Callaway, William Marriott Canby, L.J.
Lownds, Paul C. Phillips, and H.M. Sims.
Box 23
Folder 533 Correspondence: 1929-1932
Folder 534 Correspondence: 1935-1952
Folder 535 Article on
John Frank Stevens
Folder 536 Notes
Folder 537 Map of Marias
Pass
Folder 538 Itinerary of
James Doty, Pacific Railroad Reports (1854)
Folder 539 Manuscript
maps by JNB
FILE 60: MC LOUGHLIN,
DOCTOR JOHN
In 1928, Barry campaigned
to have the historic name McLoughlin Point restored to Ryan Point on the
Columbia River, near Vancouver, Washington. That proposal drew considerable
opposition from locals who were used to the name Ryan Point.
Box 23
Folder 540 Doctor John McLoughlin: Notes
Folder 541 Doctor John McLoughlin: Family
Folder 542 Doctor John McLoughlin’s correspondence: Notes
Folder 543 McLoughlin
Point chronology
Folder 544 McLoughlin
Point: Correspondence, 1928
FILE 61: NEW YORK:
CITY AND STATE
Barry’s notebook is
subtitled “Indian Paths and Villages / Forts, etc. / Battlefields, etc.
Box 23
Folder 545 Miscellaneous
notes and maps
FILE 62: OGDEN, PETER SKENE
Barry studied the published
journals of Peter Skene Ogden in an attempt to trace his travels in the West.
He also made note of persons mentioned in the journals (Folder 546), part of his
broader effort to identify early Western inhabitants and sojourners who predated
the influx of Oregon settlers in the 1840s.
Box 24
Folder 546 Early notes
for 1824-1830: Names
Folder 547 Notes, Ogden's
Snake Country, 1824‑1825
Folder 548 Notes, Ogden’s
Snake Country, 1825‑1826
Folder 549 Notes on
William Kittson
Folder 550 Note on Mrs.
P. S. Ogden
Folder 551 Article by D.E. Miller, annotated by JNB
FILE 63: OREGON
AGRICULTURE
Bibliographic references
and occasional clippings relating to agriculture in early Oregon. See also
Barry’s
article on early Oregon agriculture (Box 5, Folder 1)
and File 44, Indians, for folders on Indian agriculture.
Box 24
Folder 552 Notes on agriculture
and settlers
Folder
553 Animals
Folder
554 Bees
Folder
555 Food
Folder
556 Mills
Folder
557 Willamette Valley
agriculture
FILE 64: OREGON TRAIL
These slim files contain
miscellaneous correspondence and printed matter related to the Oregon Trail and
historic commemorations associated with it in the 1920s. See
File 9 (Barlow Road), File 66
(Oregon Trail in Idaho), and File 72 (South Pass) for
Barry's detailed research on segments of the trail.
Box 24
Folder 558 Articles and
souvenir programs: 1912-1925
Folder 559
Correspondence, Miscellaneous
Folder 560
Correspondence, William G. Paden and Irene D. Paden: 1937-1944
Folder 561 Notes and
correspondence on “The Oregon Trail” (WPA guide)
Folder 562 Oregon Trail
commemorative coin: Congressional report, 1926
Folder 563 Localities
mentioned by travelers
Folder 564 Old Oregon
Trail (Motion Picture): Correspondence, 1930
Folder 565 Old Oregon
Trail legislation, 1925
Folder 566 "Old Oregon
Trail" pamphlets, 1922-1926
FILE 65: OREGON TRAIL:
MAPS
These notes and hand-drawn
maps come from Barry’s study of Oregon Trail maps published in The Crown
Collection of American Maps, Series IV: The American Transcontinental Trails,
by Archer Butler Hulbert. He studied the course of the trail as outlined in the
maps and redrew portions of particular interest to him in a larger scale on
range and township grids.
Box 24
Folder 567 Crown maps:
Wyoming
Folder 568 Crown maps:
Idaho
Folder 569 Crown maps:
Oregon
FILE 66: OREGON AND
OTHER TRAILS IN IDAHO
Barry took extensive notes
from Oregon Trail diaries. He paid particular attention to the mileages recorded
by the diarists and correlated the geographical features they mentioned to
modern place names. See also File 11 on Old Fort Boise.
Box 24
Folder 570 Index to
journals on the Oregon Trail in Idaho
Folder 571 Chronology
Folder 572 Summary, from
ford of Boise River to Fort Boise
Folder 573 Diaries:
Excerpts, Notes
Folder 574 Diaries:
Excerpts, Notes
FILE 67: PERSONS:
FRENCH CANADIANS
Notes and correspondence
about early French Canadians in the Pacific Northwest.
Correspondents include Harriet D. Munnick. See also the
Miscellaneous Subject Files for folders on a number of individuals, filed
alphabetically by name;
File 6, Astoria:
Persons; File 19 on Champoeg with maps of donation land claims;
File 35 on the Dorion family; and Barry’s article, “The French Canadian Pioneers of the Willamette Valley”
(Box 6, Folder 6 ). Portions of File 67 were microfilmed by the Oregon State
Library in the early 1950s.
Box 24
Folder 575
French Canadians in the Willamette Valley: Research correspondence, 1932-1958
Folder 576 Canadian
settlers (French speaking): Lists
Folder 577 Champoeg list
Folder 578 Donation Land
Claims list
Folder 579 French
Canadian Pioneers of Willamette Valley, by JNB (1932)
Folder 580 Frenchmen in
Wyoming (Lists of names)
Folder 581 List of
naturalized citizens, McMinnville, Oregon
FILE 68: PERSONS:
LISTED BY YEARS
Lists of early settlers and
others in the Pacific Northwest derived from primary sources.
Box 25
Folder 582 Astoria,
permanent settlers
Folder 583 List of names
east of Rockies, 1814 (Franchere)
Folder 584 Itineraries
(of Western explorers) with names of persons
Folder 585 List of
persons in Oregon country, 1807‑1829
Folder 586 List of
settlers (English‑Speaking) 1830‑1843
Folder 587 Names
mentioned by Alexander Henry, 1813‑1814
Folder 588 Roll of Honor
Pioneers, 1843
FILE 69: PERSONS:
CENSUS 1850‑1940
Chiefly published
statistical data.
Box 25
Folder 589 Population,
notes (including first settlers of Willamette Valley)
Folder 590 Population
Bulletins (U.S.) 1910‑1940
Folder 591 Population
Bulletins (Oregon) 1910‑1940
FILE 70: PERSONS:
CENSUS BY THE YEARS
Lists of names of early
persons in the Oregon country, arranged by year. See also the
Miscellaneous
Subject File for names of signatories on Petitions to Congress (Folder 1044) and
names of persons in the estate papers of Ewing Young (Folder 1266).
Box 25
Folder 592 Barry's
selection of terms for early persons in Oregon country
Folder 593 Settlers by
years (Oregon census), 1833‑1842 (Names)
Folder 594 Census lists,
1833‑1846
Folder 595 Additional
names after first compilation
Folder 596 Immigration,
1841, 1842
Folder 597 Census, French
speaking, 1843
Folder 598 Census,
English speaking, 1843
Folder 599 Women in the
trek of 1843
Folder 600 Protestant
missionaries, 1843
Folder 601 Pioneers of
1844
Folder 602 Immigration,
1845 and 1846 (incomplete)
FILE 70.5: PERSONS:
INDEXES
Compilations of
bibliographic references to early settlers and others in the Pacific Northwest,
arranged by last name. Occasionally newspaper clippings about persons have been
affixed to their bibliography page, as well. Many of the persons are also
represented by folders in the Miscellaneous Subject File and elsewhere within
the collection. (Until 2006, these index folders were filed at the beginning of their
letters in the Miscellaneous Subject File).
Box 25
Folder 603 A-B (A is
missing)
Folder 604 C
Folder 605 D
Folder 606 E-F (F is
missing)
Folder 607 G
Folder 608 H-I-J
Folder 609 K-L
Folder 610 M-Mc-N
Folder 611 P-Q
Folder 612 R
Folder 613 S
Folder 614 T
Folder 615 W
Folder 616 X-Y-Z
FILE 71: SNAKE RIVER
AND SNAKE RIVER CANYON
J. Neilson Barry was particularly interested in the travels of the Astorians in
the Hell’s Canyon country of the Snake River. See also File 4 (Astoria: Wilson
Price Hunt: McKenzie Route; particularly Folder 51); and the
Miscellaneous
Subject File for folders on Donald McKenzie (Folder 978) the Wallowa region
(Folders 1212-1214). For a variety of reasons, Barry disliked the name “Snake”
and avoided using the term “Hell’s Canyon.” Folder 619 includes an article from
the Portland Oregonian of October 18, 1936, entitled “We Paddled a Canoe
Through Hell Canyon,” by George Thomas and Alan Williams, recounting a canoe
trip from the Boise River to Portland, Oregon.
Box 25
Folder 617
Correspondence: 1929-1952
Folder 618 Name of Snake
River: Correspondence, 1924-1930
Folder 619 Miscellaneous
newspaper clippings: 1929-1951
Folder 620 Maps of Snake
River Canyon
Folder 621 Explorations
of Snake River
Folder 622 Government
figures (water flow)
Folder 623 Indian map, 1806
Folder 624 Summary of
explorations of Snake River
FILE 72: SOUTH PASS /
ROBERT STUART ROUTE
Barry was interested in the
1812 eastward overland route of the Astorian Robert Stuart and particularly his crossing of the continental divide at
South Pass, Wyoming. Much of the correspondence relates to the geography of the
South Pass region and speculation on Stuart’s exact route of travel through the
area. Correspondents include Seymour S. Bernfeld, Donald A. Sherlock, Philip
Ashton Rollins (one letter), and others familiar with the territory and the
terrain. Other related correspondence with B.W. Driggs (1929) is found in
File
4 (Astoria: Wilson Price Hunt). Folders 627 and 628 contain photostats of field
notes for government surveys of the area in 1885 and 1931. Barry's
conclusions are found in his article, "The Discovery of the Oregon Trail,"
published in the Pacific Northwest Quarterly (1937) (Box 5, Folder 23).
He contended that Nathaniel J. Wyeth, rather than Stuart, was the first to
travel in full the route that became the Oregon Trail through that region.
Box 26
Folder 625 Research
correspondence: 1927-1953
Folder 626 Maps by Barry
Folder 627 Field notes
of surveys, 1931 (Photostats)
Folder 628 Field notes
of survey, 1885 and 1931 (Photostats)
Folder 629 Robert
Stuart: Journal and journey: miscellaneous notes
Folder 630 Robert
Stuart: Travel memo, October 10-24, 1812
Folder 631 Robert
Stuart: Travel memo, October 6-12, 1812 (Hoback River vicinity maps)
Folder 632 Robert Stuart
maps (Barry’s hand-drawn versions)
FILE 73: SPOKANE HOUSE,
LOCATION OF
Barry was interested in the precise location of the Spokane House, the North
West Company’s fur trading post at the confluence of the Spokane and Little
Spokane rivers. In the 1940s he worked with local historians and other
local people to pinpoint the site. See also Maps,
Folder 1326.
Box 26
Folder 633 Correspondence: 1922-1946
Folder 634
Correspondence: 1947-1954
Folder 635
Correspondence: Fay M. Orton, 1946-1947
Folder 636
Correspondence: Jerome Peltier, 1947-1954
Folder 637 Correspondence: Local informants, 1947-1951
Folder 638 Summation
(not by Barry)
Folder 639 Miscellaneous
Folder 640 Photos from
Jerome Peltier
Folder 641 Maps and
sketches
FILE 74: THOMPSON,
DAVID: CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX
Detailed notes on the
travels of David Thompson, mainly in the Spokane, Kootenay, and Columbia River
regions.
Box 26
Folder 642 Notebooks
FILE 75: THOMPSON,
DAVID: MISCELLANEOUS
Barry’s main interest in
David Thompson was his travels and exploration in what is now Washington,
Oregon, and Idaho, as well as names of persons associated with him.
Box 26
Folder 643 Research
correspondence: 1930-1960
Folder 644 Description
of
Folder 645 Maps of
travel on Columbia River, July-August 1811, by JNB
Folder 646 Names of persons
Folder 647 Names of
persons, West of the Rockies and Idaho, David Thompson era
Folder 648 Journals
Folder 649 Notes
Folder 650 Miscellaneous
notebook and clipped articles
Folder 651 John McDonald
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