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Title	Joseph H. Jones Manuscript, "The Rock Creek Massacre"
Creator	Jones, Joseph H., d. 1926
Subject	Frontier and pioneer life Montana Granite County. Nez Percâe Indians Montana. Rock Creek Massacre (Mont.) Reminiscences Montana.
Description	This typescript presents a first-person account of Jones's encounter with and escape from a band of Nez Percâe 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 Jones and three fellow miners as well as how he survived the thirty-five mile trek to Philipsburg for assistance. The title page indicates Jones wrote the account for exclusive publication by the Philipsburg Mail in 1904. The typescript in this collection may have been a duplication created by use of carbon paper.
Date	2013-06-20
Notes	Joseph H. "Nez Perce" Jones was born in Carthage, Mo., ca. 1846. Sometime during 1863 he arrived in Montana by ox team and began prospecting in the Philipsburg, Mont., area. In July 1878 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 Percâe crossed south and west across Montana towards Idaho. The band was a small contingent of the Nez Percâe who sought exile in Canada the previous year following a series of skirmishes with the U.S. Army and Montana militia. Of the four miners residing in McKay Gulch on 12 July 1878 (John Hays was working a claim near the mouth of the gulch), Jones was the only survivor of a violent exchange with the Nez Percâe band, an event later dubbed the Rock Creek Massacre. With a bullet wound in his right arm, just below the shoulder, Jones eluded close pursuit and traversed thirty-five miles of difficult terrain to reach Philipsburg for assistance. He remained in town while recovering from the bullet wound as well as dehydration and severe swelling of his feet. Jones frequently returned to the McKay Gulch cabin and continued working the claim for several years. He eventually married and fathered two daughters. Joseph H. Jones died of pneumonia on 6 Apr. 1926 in his Philipsburg home.
Date Digital	4/5/2011
Type	image
Identifier	umt050040
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Rights	Copyright to this collection is held by the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana-Missoula. This image may also be protected by copyright. Permission may be required for use. For further information please contact Archives and Special Collections.
Collection	Joseph H. Jones, "The Rock Creek Massacre", Mss 417 Archives & Special Collections, Mansfield Library, The University of Montana-Missoula. For further information connect to the online guide to this collection. http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv60195
Language	en
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Transcript	2JEZ PERCE JONES, when Philipsourg fortified against Hostile Inclines, in 1873 THE RQOZ CREEi� LIA.3SACRE. Thrilling experience of J. II. Jones, of South Philipshtirg^ only survivor of a party of early day placor miners. Story of his escape written especially for- th.'i Uail by :ir. Jones in 1904, re-print el by request.

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