John Owen's letterbook contains copies of his letters and documents relating to his work as a Flathead Indian agent, St. Mary's mission and Fort Owen, relations between the Indians and the Catholic missions and the white settlers, the Hudson's Bay Com...
Description:
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 a...
Subject (Geographic):
Indiana.
Subject (Name):
Owen, John, 1818-1889., Hudson's Bay Company., and United States. Army. Mounted Rifle Regiment.
Subject (Topic):
Cantonment Loring (Ind.), Indian agents, and Salish Indians
John Owen's letterbook contains copies of his letters and documents relating to his work as a Flathead Indian agent, St. Mary's mission and Fort Owen, relations between the Indians and the Catholic missions and the white settlers, the Hudson's Bay Com...
Description:
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 a...
Subject (Geographic):
Indiana.
Subject (Name):
Owen, John, 1818-1889., Hudson's Bay Company., and United States. Army. Mounted Rifle Regiment.
Subject (Topic):
Cantonment Loring (Ind.), Indian agents, and Salish Indians
Photographic postcard of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, taken by Lawrence Beitler. Shipp and Smith were murdered by a mob in Marion, Indiana on August 7, 1930
Description:
Lawrence Beitler (1885-1960) was an American studio photographer.
Subject (Geographic):
Indiana, Marion., Marion, Grant County, and Marion (Ind.)
Subject (Name):
Beitler, Lawrence., Shipp, Thomas, 1911-1930, and Smith, Abram, -1930
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, African Americans, Violence against, Lynching, Racism, and Race relations
