Author:Frances Fuller Victor

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Frances Fuller Victor (1826–1902)

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American historian and historical novelist; pen names: Florence Fane, Dorothy D.; has been described as "the first Oregon historian to gain regional and national attention."

Frances Fuller Victor

Works

• as Frances A. Fuller: Anizetta, the Guajira; or, The Creole of Cuba (1848) (external scan)
• as Frances Fuller Barritt: East and West; or, The Beauty of Willard's Mill (later republished as "The Far West...") (1862) Internet Archive identifier : 04297674.1621.emory.edu
• as Frances Fuller Barritt: Alicia Newcome, or The Land Claim: A Tale of the Upper Missouri (1862)
• The River of the West: The Adventures of Joe Meek (1870) Internet Archive identifier : bub_gb_eZd9Pw0r7foC
  • Reviewed in the Sacramento Union (1870)
• All Over Oregon and Washington (1872) Internet Archive identifier : cu31924028885867
• The Women's War With Whisky; Or, Crusading in Portland , pamphlet, 60p., 1874. See this contemporaneous review in the New Northwest.
• The New Penelope: And Other Stories and Poems (1877)
  • Briefly reviewed in Daily Astorian (external scan)
• Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains & A History of the Sioux War (1877)
  • Part I: Eleven years in the Rocky Mountains and a life on the frontier
  • Part II: A History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer, with a Full Account of his Last Battle
• Under contract with Hubert Howe Bancroft:
  • History of Oregon in two volumes (1886, 1888)

    (v. 1, ch. 13 transcription complete)

  • History of California: 1846–1848 (1890)
  • History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana: 1845–1889 (1890)
  • History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540–1888 (1890)
  • History of the Pacific states of North America (1890)
• Atlantis Arisen: or, Talks of a tourist about Oregon and Washington (1891)
• The Early Indian Wars of Oregon (transcription project) (1894) (published at the direction of the Oregon Legislature; see House Concurrent Resolution No. 22, 1891.)
  • Covered in the Hood River Glacier: "A Woman Historian," and in the Evening Capital Journal (external scan)
  • Lyman review in Oregonian, March 14, 1897 (transcription project)

Poetry

The following lists published works containing Victor's poems. For individual poems, see Index of poem titles.

• Poems of Sentiment and Imagination (1851) as Frances A. Fuller, with Metta Victoria Fuller
• Poetry selections (with biographical intro) in The Poets and Poetry of the West: With Biographical and Critical Notices (1860)
• Poems section in The New Penelope (1877)
• Poems (1900)

In periodicals

• "Manifest Destiny in the West" (1869), featured in The Overland Monthly
• social columns and other items for the San Francisco Call, some under the penname "Dorothy D" (mid-1870s; 1890s)
• "The Literature of Oregon." The West Shore 1 (1876)
• Did Dr. Whitman Save Oregon? in The Californian (1880)
• "Dr. Marcus Whitman: An Estimate of the Services Rendered Oregon by the Pioneer and Martyr", Oregonian, November 6, 1884, on Marcus Whitman (transcription project)
• Northern Seaside Resorts in Overland Monthly (1894)

• "Autobiographical Sketch" in the Oregon Statesman (June 16, 1895)

• H. S. Lyman: Oregonian/1897/Mrs. Victor's Latest Work: Her Book on "The Early Indian Wars of Oregon."
• Minto response, Oregonian, March 19, 1897. (external scan)
• Victor's response to Lyman, Oregonian, March 25, 1897. (external scan)
• Lyman's response (external scan)

• "She Defends Bancroft", Oregonian, December 22, 1901

In the Oregon Historical Quarterly:

• "Dr. Elliott Coues" in Oregon Historical Quarterly, 1 (1900)
• "Our Public Land System and Its Relation to Education in the United States" in Oregon Historical Quarterly, 1 (1900)
• "Flotsom and Jetsom of the Pacific: The Owyhee, the Sultana, and the May Dacre" in Oregon Historical Quarterly, 2 (1901)
• "Hall J. Kelley: One of the Fathers of Oregon" in Oregon Historical Quarterly, 2 (1901)
• "The First Oregon Cavalry" in Oregon Historical Quarterly, 3 (1902)
• Review: ""The American Fur Trade in the Far West"" in Oregon Historical Quarterly, 3 (1902)
• Review: McLoughlin and Old Oregon: A Chronicle, by Eva Emery Dye (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co. 1900. Pp. viii, 382). The American Historical Review, Volume 6, Issue 1, 1 October 1900, Pages 148–150, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/6.1.148

• San Francisco Daily Call, How Oregon Was Saved (July 1895)
• San Francisco Daily Call, San Francisco Call/Volume 78/Mrs. Frances Fuller Victor vs. Dr. O. W. Nixon of Chicago (September 1895)

Works about Victor

• Hailed as "Our Lady Historian" early in her career in Oregon: Sacramento Daily Union: Letter from Oregon. 1865.
• Frances Fuller Victor, entry in A Woman of the Century (1893)
• A Woman Historian, in the Hood River Glacier, 1895.
• Mrs. Victor Dead, The Morning Oregonian, November 15, 1902.
• Historian of the Northwest (obituary from the Oregon Historical Quarterly, volume 3). (1902)
• Obituary in the Sunday Oregonian
• funeral notice in the Oregonian
• Interesting comment in the Oregonian following her death
• The Origin and Authorship of the Bancroft Pacific States Publications: A History of a History (part 1), concerning her career, in OHQ volume 4. (1903)