Oen Edgar Noland
Four Corners Pioneer and Trader to the Utes and Navajo, Oen Noland was a friend and as a defender of the Native Americans took the Navajo name Bi'doni but also was a Mancos businessman, Durango/Silverton freighter, Lake City Prospector, and early Saguache resident.
- ISBN
- 978-1-937851-16-3
- Pages
- 160
- Place
- Lake City
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About this book
Oen Edgar Noland is a biography of a Four Corners pioneer who traded with the Ute and Navajo peoples. Kenneth W. Felts, the author, describes him as a friend and defender of Native Americans. He took the Navajo name Bi'doni.
Noland's life covered more than one trade. The description lists him as a Mancos businessman, a freighter on the Durango to Silverton route, a prospector at Lake City and an early resident of Saguache. That puts him in several corners of southwestern Colorado during its settlement years.
Our catalogue lists the book at 160 pages, with the ISBN 978-1-937851-16-3. We have no outside source on Noland to add to the description, so this page keeps to what the record says.
Who it is for
Readers of Four Corners and southwestern Colorado history will find a local figure here. People with an interest in trading posts and relations between settlers and the Ute and Navajo, or in Mancos, Durango, Silverton, Lake City and Saguache, can follow one man through those places.
Ways to use this book
Following the towns on a road trip
Lay out the five towns in the description on a map and pick two or three for a loop. Call ahead, because the Lake City and Saguache museums are described on their sites as seasonal.
Learning Ute history from Ute sources
A trader's story is one view of a shared history. The Southern Ute museum's own site is a good place to start for how the Ute people describe their history and language.
Looking for a pioneer's name in local records
County museums often keep photographs and papers by family name. Email the Lake City or Saguache museum with Noland's name and a town, and ask politely what they hold.
Go deeper
Noland's life, as the description tells it, ran through Mancos, Durango, Silverton, Lake City and Saguache. Local museums in that country and a Ute cultural center can fill in the world around one pioneer.
Lake City Museum
The Hinsdale County Historical Society's museum in Lake City, with a stated mission to collect, preserve and exhibit material on the history of Hinsdale County.
Saguache County Museum
A museum in an adobe building begun in 1870. Its listing says the exhibits touch on Otto Mears, Chief Ouray and Chipeta, and other Native American tribes.
Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum
The tribe's museum in Ignacio. Its mission is to foster understanding of the history, culture and language of the Nuuchi, the Ute people.
Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum
A Bureau of Land Management museum in Dolores that introduces the cultural heritage of the Four Corners, a wider setting for any Four Corners story.
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