Joseph H. Jones Manuscript 1904

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Joseph H. Jones Manuscript 1904

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Joseph H. Jones was a miner in the Phillipsburg, Montana, area. This typescript presents a first-person account of Mr. Jones’ encounter with and escape from a band of Nez Perce attempting a return from Canada to Idaho one year after the Battle of the Big Hole (1877). The account details the events leading to the shooting of Mr. Jones and three fellow miners as well as how he survived the 35-mile trek to Philipsburg, Montana, for assistance.

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University of Montana--Missoula Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library Archives and Special Collections

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Jones, Joseph H., -1926

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Joseph H. “Nez Perce” Jones was born in Carthage, Missouri, in about 1846. Sometime during 1863 he arrived in Montana by ox team and began prospecting in the Philipsburg, Montana, area. In July 1878 Mr. Jones was sharing a cabin with two other miners, Amos Elliot and Bill Jory, while working a placer mine in McKay Gulch of the Rock Creek drainage west of Philipsburg. That summer a band of Nez Perce crossed south and west across Montana towards Idaho. The band was a small contingent of the Nez Pe...