Author Victor Frances Fuller

regional histories. Over the next 13 years, she compiled first-hand accounts of the history of Oregon from territorial leaders like Joseph Meek, Oliver Applegate, and Matthew Deady.[2] Her diligent studies informed both her fiction and her historical writing, contributing to her success as a writer.[2] Her fiction in this period was considered to accurately capture the spirit of western expansion and the notion of Manifest Destiny.[4] She also continued to write about women's rights, and among the publications she wrote for was Abigail Scott Duniway's The New Northwest.[5] After her husband died in about 1878,[1] in need of money, Fuller Victor moved back to San Francisco to accept a 10-year contract offered by historian Hubert Howe Bancroft. The terms of the contract required her to turn over her extensive collections and research.[3] She contributed major portions of Bancroft's monumental work, The History of the West,[3] though Bancroft published her work under his own name.[6] After she left Bancroft's company, Fuller Victor returned to Oregon, where she was commissioned by the Oregon Legislative Assembly to write a history of the Anglo-Indian wars, which was titled The Early Indian Wars of Oregon.[2] To cover her living expenses, she also sold face cream and other articles door-to-door.[3] Fuller Victor was buried at River View Cemetery in Portland.[7]