We do not know his name: Klatsassin and the Chilcotin War
   
 

John Newman

John Newman, a Norwegian (or possibly an Englishman), was working with Waddington's road crew that was attacked on the Bute Inlet trail on April 30, 1864. He was sharing a tent with Philip Buckley, a survivor, when he was killed by a Tsilhqot'in warrior.

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