John Owen papers

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Title: John Owen papers
Creator: Owen, John, 1818-1889
Contributor: Hudson's Bay Company
Owen, John, 1818-1889
United States. Army. Mounted Rifle Regiment
Published / Created: 1849-1881
Abstract: John Owen's account book for the Oregon Rifles contains pencil sketches of acquaintances.
Description: Gift of William Robertson Coe.
John Owen came to the northwest in 1849 with the Oregon Rifles and became their sutler at Cantonment Loring. In 1850 he settled as a trader in Bitter Root Valley and two years later he purchased St. Mary's Mission where he built Fort Owen. He served as a special agent to the Flathead Indians, from 1856 to 1862. After 1871, he lived in a hospital at Helena, Montana and later he went to live with relatives in Philadelphia.
Original bindings.
Extent: 1 v. (69 p.) ; 31 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Hudson's Bay Company
Owen, John, 1818-1889
United States. Army. Mounted Rifle Regiment
Subject (Topic): Cantonment Loring (Ind.)
Indian agents--Indiana
Salish Indians

Access: Public
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Citation: John Owen Papers. Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Withington, M. C. Catalogue of Western Americana Manuscripts 368.