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HISTORY OF OREGON LITERATURE
in a discussion of Oregon literature in Bancroft's History of Oregon:
A few local poems of merit have been written by Mrs. F. F. Victor, who came to Oregon by way of San Francisco in 1865, and published several prose books relating to the country.
Following is a list of her books, which are in addition to many magazine articles, letters of travel, poems and "quite a mass of manuscripts on historical and other subjects" left in her boarding house room at the time of her death:
Poems, 1851
She said of these in Bancroft's History of Oregon: "Most Ohio people of the period of 1851 will remember a volume of poems brought out by Frances and her sister Metta Victoria, about this time, and while the authors were still in their teens."Florence Fane Sketches, 1863-65
This is usually listed in the bibliography of her works, though the author of this history has been unable actually to locate it as a book. The sketches were contributed to the San Francisco Bulletin from 1863 to 1865.The River of the West.
Hartford, 1870.All Over Oregon and Washington. San Francisco, 1872.The Woman's War Against Whisky; or, Crusading in Portland. Portland, George H. Himes, 1874.Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains. Hartford, 1877.Much the same as The River of the West, with slight changes of content.
Parts of Bancroft's History of the Northwest Coast. 2 vols. San Francisco, 1884.Bancroft's History of Oregon. 2 vols. San Francisco, 1886, 1888.Bancroft's History of California. Vols. 6 and 7. San Francisco, 1890.Bancroft's History of Washington, Idaho and Montana. San Francisco, 1890.Bancroft's History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming. San Francisco, 1890.Numerous biographies throughout the Bancroft series.Atlantis Arisen; or, Talks of a Tourist About Oregon and Washington. Philadelphia, 1891.The Early Indian Wars of Oregon. Salem, 1894.Poems, 1900.
A little green-cloth book of 109 pages, called the "Author's Edition," without place or printer's name but produced for her by Howe, Davis & Kilham in Portland.
