Author:Overton Johnson

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Overton Johnson
(–1849)

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Oregon pioneer. Returned to Indiana from a 1843 trip to the west with William H. Winter and wrote of their travels, with a focus on Marcus Whitman. Served for a few months in 1844 as Recorder for Oregon.

Works

(republished in the Oregon Historical Quarterly):

Route across the Rocky Mountains with a Description of Oregon and California

Note: According to a 1932 review of a Princeton University Press edition, material published in that later edition included further chapters, notably concerning Marcus Whitman's trial by local Indians, prior to the Whitman Massacre.

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