THE DIARIES OF JOHN E. PETERSON, A SWEDISH IMMIGRANT TO MINNESOTA, CIVIL WAR VETERAN, AND EARLY SETTLER, SAWMILL OWNER, AND CARPENTER IN OREGON. A COLLECTION OF THIRTEEN DAILY DIARIES, THE BULK OF THEM RECORDING HIS LIFE IN OREGON, INCLUDING TIME ON THE SILETZ INDIAN RESERVATION REPAIRING BUILDINGS AT THE AGENCY AND CONSTRUCTING A BOARDING SCHOOL FOR THE NATIVE CHILDREN.
[various places, including Afton, MN; Bridgeport, Corvallis, & Philomath, OR; Siletz Reservation: 1865-1881]. The archive contains 13 small leather wallet-style pocket diaries, most approx. 5 x 3 in., with near daily entries from 1865-1881 (a few years missing), composed in ink in a tight manuscript hand by John E. Peterson..... More
