Item #76796 THE JOURNALS AND LETTERS OF MAJOR JOHN OWEN, PIONEER OF THE NORTHWEST, 1850-1971 [TWO VOLUMES]; EMBRACING HIS PURCHASE OF ST. MARY'S MISSION; THE BUILDING OF FORT OWEN; HIS TRAVELS; HIS RELATION WITH THE INDIANS; HIS WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT; AND HIS ACTIVITIES AS A WESTERN EMPIRE BUILDER FOR TWENTY YEARS. John Owen, Seymour Dunbar, Paul C. Phillips.
THE JOURNALS AND LETTERS OF MAJOR JOHN OWEN, PIONEER OF THE NORTHWEST, 1850-1971 [TWO VOLUMES]; EMBRACING HIS PURCHASE OF ST. MARY'S MISSION; THE BUILDING OF FORT OWEN; HIS TRAVELS; HIS RELATION WITH THE INDIANS; HIS WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT; AND HIS ACTIVITIES AS A WESTERN EMPIRE BUILDER FOR TWENTY YEARS
THE JOURNALS AND LETTERS OF MAJOR JOHN OWEN, PIONEER OF THE NORTHWEST, 1850-1971 [TWO VOLUMES]; EMBRACING HIS PURCHASE OF ST. MARY'S MISSION; THE BUILDING OF FORT OWEN; HIS TRAVELS; HIS RELATION WITH THE INDIANS; HIS WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT; AND HIS ACTIVITIES AS A WESTERN EMPIRE BUILDER FOR TWENTY YEARS
THE JOURNALS AND LETTERS OF MAJOR JOHN OWEN, PIONEER OF THE NORTHWEST, 1850-1971 [TWO VOLUMES]; EMBRACING HIS PURCHASE OF ST. MARY'S MISSION; THE BUILDING OF FORT OWEN; HIS TRAVELS; HIS RELATION WITH THE INDIANS; HIS WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT; AND HIS ACTIVITIES AS A WESTERN EMPIRE BUILDER FOR TWENTY YEARS

THE JOURNALS AND LETTERS OF MAJOR JOHN OWEN, PIONEER OF THE NORTHWEST, 1850-1971 [TWO VOLUMES]; EMBRACING HIS PURCHASE OF ST. MARY'S MISSION; THE BUILDING OF FORT OWEN; HIS TRAVELS; HIS RELATION WITH THE INDIANS; HIS WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT; AND HIS ACTIVITIES AS A WESTERN EMPIRE BUILDER FOR TWENTY YEARS

New York: Edward Eberstadt, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume I: xx,346, Volume II: 333 pages. 30 plates [including frontis to each volume], two foldout maps. Edited by Seymour Dunbar with notes to Owen's text by Paul C. Phillips. Red cloth, octavos. Corners bumped, spines rubbed. Volume 2 has small tear at head of spine. Ex-library with catalog stickers to spines of both volumes and sticker to top front cover of volume 2. Both volumes have bookplates to inside boards, library stickers to front endpapers, sticker and library stamp to rear endpapers of both volumes and discard stamp to title page to each volume. Text to both volumes clean, bindings tight. Good Plus. Item #76796

In 1850 Owen arrived in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana where he purchased the physical remains of the St. Mary's Mission which had closed some years back. He then developed the property into a major commercial center of the Northwest. Between 1851 and 1864, to keep his trading post in provisions, Owen made 34 separate trips of 2300 miles each by packtrain.

Example from text: Journal XIII: Diary of a Journey from Fort Owen by wayof Fort Colville to the mouth of Snake River, betwen March 19 and May 29, 1858, at the Outbreak of the Indian Hostilities of that year.

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