A series of six framed oil paintings, four of them attributed to Paul Kane. Paintings depict Fort Vancouver, Snake River, buffalo, and buffalo hunting. This painting was a part of Mr. Coe's gift of his Western Collection, acquired from the widow of a grandson of Sir George Simpson, Governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Territories in North America.
Pencil, ink, and color scenes of the Fraser River mining region, depicting Indians, Fort Hope Saw-Mill, Hell's Gate Cañon, a potlach at Fort Hope, and the town of Fort Hope.
Pencil, ink, and color scenes of the Fraser River mining region, depicting Indians, Fort Hope Saw-Mill, Hell's Gate Cañon, a potlach at Fort Hope, and the town of Fort Hope.
Petition by the Fox Indians of the tribe of the Sac and Fox Indians requesting Gov. Geary to reappoint Burton A. James as their agent. The petition is in the handwriting of Perry Fuller.
Description:
Gift of William Robertson Coe.
Subject (Name):
Fuller, Perry, Geary, John White, 1819-1873, James, Burton A, and Powers, George
Subject (Topic):
Fox Indians, Indian agents--Kansas, Indians of North America--Kansas--Government relations, and Sauk Indians
The diary was written on the road but not every day. It records the journey from Zanesville, Ohio, to Independence, and in more detail the preparations for the journey at Independence, the country traversed and the camping places along the Platte and Sweetwater, Sublette's and Hudspeth's Cut-offs, and the Applegate Trail and Lassen Road to the Feather River Valley.
Description:
Gift of William Robertson Coe., Original binding., and The Granville Company consisted of 32 people traveling to California in 1849.
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 Company, Indian wars, and Fort Owen.
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., and Original bindings.
Subject (Name):
Hudson's Bay Company, Owen, John, 1818-1889, and United States. Army. Mounted Rifle Regiment
Subject (Topic):
Cantonment Loring (Ind.), Indian agents--Indiana, and Salish Indians
