The Bowen family.
The Bowen family is documented on the valley map from land and family records. The original archive has no family history for them, so their pictures are kept together here. 1 photograph · 1 land patent.
Photographs
In date order; undated ones last.
View photograph ↗David John Bowen
Portrait on his FamilySearch person page (1861–1955).
FamilySearch (uploaded by a relative)Land patents
Federal patents to the family’s land, from the General Land Office records, in date order.
View photograph ↗Homestead patent to David J. Bowen, 1907
Federal land patent signed 17 April 1907 (BLM serial IDIDAA 005256). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)Help put names to these pictures.
Many of these photographs still need names, places and dates. If you know who is in one, open it and choose “Help identify this photograph”. If your family keeps photographs of the valley, the archive would love to see them.