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It seoiUB queer to read of one of the far-away generation of trappers and Indian fighters being still alive and able to walk five miles for his mail. Richard L. Owings, commonly called Dick Owens in the old books, is said to be still living near Cir-cleville, in Jackson county, Missouri. Owings was a prominent figure in the west as far back as the 80's. In 1830 he is mentioned as one of aAparty, which included Carson and Bridgcr, who made a successfulseason’s hunt, in the Black Hills of Wyoming. Think of talking with a man today who has trapped beaver with Jim Bridget and Kit Carson in the days when Captain Bonneville, Nathaniel Wyeth, Marcus Whitman, Jim Beckwourth and George Gatlin were men of the hour ! Owings was a member of Fremont’s force, too, on his third expedition in 1845, and he and Lucien B. Maxwell are mentioned as his favorite men. After the disasters of the terrible fourth expedition, in 1848, Fremont found sheltor in New Mexico with his old friends Carson, Maxwell, St. Vraiu and Owings. Strange Rtories of the stirring days of the wild west thisold man, now in his ninetieth year, could tell.
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Nebraska City Conservative
Nebraska City, Nebraska, US
Thu, Apr 10, 1902
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