A dictionary used for the “Oregon Place Names” book
By chance I came across a copy of JK Gill’s well-known Chinook Jargon dictionary, with this autograph in it:
“Lewis A. McArthur
Portland”
This is at the Bancroft Library in California.
It’s the 1887 eleventh edition of Gill’s dictionary.
Looks like this is a dictionary (the dictionary?) that McArthur used in his excellent book on “Oregon Geographic Names”.
(See my series on it. It brought us a number of discoveries.)
