Timeline of Genocide Incidents in the Northeast California Region

CONTENT WARNING: Many of the primary sources linked on this timeline contain racist language or sentiment and graphic accounts of settler-colonial violence against indigenous people.

Appx.* Date Number

reported killed

 

Location Sources Source Files
I After May 10, 1846 2+ (“an occasional indian…spar[ing] none of the bucks” en route to Oregon) Between Lassen’s Ranch and Oregon Martin, With Frémont to California, 8 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i1054a.jpg
III “early days,” 1850? 0 – 93+ “sixteen miles east of where Redding now stands” Anonymous in Woodbridge, “Tragedy of Pit River,” 641-642.  Because this is a large massacre reported long after it happened and not corroborated by other sources, it does not appear in the minimum estimated death toll for the total number of California Indians killed between 1846 and 1873 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0668a.pdf
II March, 1850 1 Middle Bar of Clear Creek Anonymous, “California Blood Stain,” 130-131 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0118a.pdf
II Before March 28, 1850 1 “a little above Clear Creek” Hale, March 29, 1850 journal entry in Hale Papers, Diary 4 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0121a.pdf
III Before May 16, 1850 15 “on Deer Creek” Green to Burnett May 16, 1850 in Placer Times, May 20, 1850 2, and California, Senate Journal 1851, 763 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0682.pdf
III Between May 22, and August 26, 1850 15+ “Goose Lake country” DAC, August 26, 1850, 2; Lyon to Canby, May 22, 1850, in S. Exec. Doc. 1, Pt 2, 31st Cong., 2nd Sess., 1850, serial 587, 83; Bancroft, Works, 24:458 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0696.pdf

 

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I November or December? of 1850 3 Mill Creek Bruff in Read and Gaines, eds., Gold Rush, 465 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0026a.png
II After January 1, 1851 1 Butte County, perhaps near Manoah Pence’s ranch Anonymous, Memorial and Biographical History of California, Illustrated, 113 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0142a.jpg
III Probably April or May, 1851 15 “in Butte Valley 60 miles east from Yreka” Ross, “Narrative of an Indian Fighter,” 22-23 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0718a.pdf
I Summer of 1851 3 Modoc Country Fanning in Wells, History of Siskiyou County, 124-125 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0033a.pdf
I Fall, 1851 1 Honey Lake and Noble Pass region? Anonymous, “Jaunt to Honey Lake Valley and Noble’s Pass,” 532 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0036a.pdf
II Fall of 1851 3 East of Lassen’s Ranch? Anonymous, “Jaunt to Honey Lake Valley and Noble’s Pass,” 532 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0168a.pdf
III Autumn, 1851 15 – 16 “the east side of Tule Lake” or on Lost River Kershaw in H. Mis. Doc. 47, 35th Cong., 2nd Sess., 1859, serial 1016, 41; Murray, Modocs and Their War, 19-21; Fanning in Wells, History of Siskiyou, 123-124 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0728a.pdf

 

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III Autumn, 1851 15 – 20 “in the tules near the mouth of Lost river” Fanning in Wells, History of Siskiyou, 124-125 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0729a.pdf
I November, 1851 3 Lava beds south east of Tule Lake Fanning in Wells, History of Siskiyou County, 124-125; Wells, “Modocs in 1851,” 133 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0035a.pdf

 

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III Before February 17, 1852 ~30 Multiple locations on Pit River SDU, February 17, 1852, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0734.pdf
III March 12, 1852 30 – 40 Downriver from junction of the Scott and Klamath Rivers McKee, March 21, 1852 in DAC, April 5, 1852, 2; March 22, 1852 letter in SDU, April 6, 1852, 3; McKee to Bigler, April 5, 1852 in California, Senate Journal, 1852, 712-713; T.J.R., May 12, 1852 in DAC, May 16, 1852, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0738.pdf

 

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III June 21-28, 1852 10 – 15 Pit River Cow Creek informant in SDU, June 28, 1852, 3 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0744.pdf
III June 29, 1852 11 Head of Chico Creek SDU, July 5, 1852, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0745.pdf
I After August 24, 1852 3 Between Yreka and Tule Lake New York Times, May 24, 1873, 2. A man named Clark reported a double murder on September 1, 1852 that was almost certainly this same event. See Clark in San Francisco Chronicle, May 6, 1873, 3 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0039a.pdf
II August 31, 1852 1 Near Black Bluff and Bloody Point Bradford, Biographical Sketches, 39 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0216a.pdf
III August 31, 1852 10 – 64 Modoc Territory Wright to Gentlemen, September 2, 1852, IWP, F3753:203; McDermitt to Bigler, December 19, 1852 in California, Senate Journal, 1853, Document 21, 3; Correspondent, July 1, 1873 in New York Times, July 17, 1873, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0748b.pdf
II September 1, 1852 2 “Not far from Klamath Lake” Clark, April 23, 1873 in San Francisco Chronicle, May 6, 1873, 3
III 1852, probably during Wright’s August 24-November 24 Modoc Campaign 0 – ~550 A lake in Modoc Country Barry, Up and Down California, 124. Because this eyewitness account described an extraordinarily large massacre but does not seem to be corroborated elsewhere, it may be an exaggeration or a fabrication. As such, this number is not included in the total low-end estimate of the number of California Indians killed between 1846 and 1873. http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0750a.jpg
II October or November, 1852 1 At or near Tule Lake Strobridge, Regulars in the Redwoods, 45 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0221a.jpg
III November 8, 1852 31 – 90 “mouth of Lost river,” probably just inside Oregon Correspondent to Shasta Courier, November 21, 1852 in DAC, December 2, 1852, 2; MCDERMITT to BIGLER, December 19, 1852 in California, Journal of the Proceedings of the Senate, 1853, Document 21, 3; Hitchcock to Cooper, March 31, 1853, 78-79; Kershaw in H. Mis. Doc. 47, 35th Cong., 2nd Sess., 1859, serial 1016, 42; Captain Jack in Special Correspondent’s letter, May 7, 1873 in New York Times, May 24, 1873, 2; Special Correspondent’s letter, May 7, 1873 in New York Times, May 24, 1873, 2; Simpson, Meeting the Sun, 366; Wells, History, 133; Wells, “Ben Wright Massacre,” 320; Brady, Northwestern Fights and Fighters, 231; Riddle in Thompson, Reminiscences of a Pioneer, 80-83 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0751.pdf

 

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III “about the year 1853” 11 Near “the east side of Tule Lake” Riddle, Indian History of the Modoc War, 18-19 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0754a.jpg
III March 11, 1853 8 Near Red Bank Creek Shasta Courier, March 26, 1852, 2; DAC, March 30, 1853, 2
II Before March 26, 1853 1 Hunt’s Ranch Shasta Courier, March 26, 1853, 2
II Before April 23, 1853 1 “Squaw Creek” in Pit River area Shasta Courier, April 23, 1853, 2
III Spring of 1853 10+ Near “Squaw Valley Mountain” in Pit River Region Wells, History of Siskiyou, 134 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0760a.pdf
III Between July 20 and July 30, 1853 20 – 25 “valley watered either by M’Cloud’s or Pitt river, about 120 miles distant from Yreka” Yreka Mountain Herald, July 30, 1853 in Shasta Courier, August 6, 1853, 2 and DAC, August 9, 1853, 2 and Placerville Herald, August 13, 1853, 2; Hutchings, January 20, 1855 journal entry, Hutchings Diary, 17-18 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0763b.pdf
II October 4, 1853 2 Near Mill Seat Creek (near Shasta?) Shasta Courier, October 8, 1853, 2; SDU, October 10, 1853, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0250b.jpg
II Before December 3, 1853 3 “near the head of Oak Run Valley” Shasta Courier, December 3, 1853, 2; Nevada Journal, December 9, 1853, 2
II Early February, 1854 2 “near Woodman’s Ranch, on Cow Creek” Shasta Courier, February 11, 1854, 2 in Nevada Journal, February 24, 1854, 2
III February 17, 1854 9 Near Clover Creek and Oak Run Gardner Brooks in Shasta Courier, February 25, 1854, 2; SDU, March 2, 1854, 2 and DAC, March 3, 1854, 2
III February 24 or 25, 1854 21 – 22+ McCloud River, “only one…escaped unharmed.” Shasta Courier, March 4, 1854, 2; SDU, March 8, 1854, 2; Shasta Courier in DAC, March 9, 1854, 2; Dreibelbis to Bigler, April 13, 1853, IWP, F3753:233
III Between March 4 and March 7, 1854 1 – 22 Near headwaters of Thomes’ Creek Karl, March 18, 1854 in Shasta Courier, March 25, 1854, 2
III Middle or Late March, 1854 14 – 17 “between the Sacamento and McCloud rivers” (Shasta Courier) Dreibelbis to Bigler, April 13, 1853, IWP, F3753:233; G.W., April 2, 1854 in Shasta Courier, April 8, 1854, 2, reprinted in SDU, April 11, 1854, 3 and summarized in DAC, April 12, 1854, 2
I April, 1854 0-2 McCloud River Yreka Herald in DAC, May 1, 1854, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0043a.jpg
II August? 1854 1 Modoc Village on east side of Clear Lake Wells, History of Siskiyou County, 137 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0280a.pdf
III August 18-and early November, 1854 30 – 40 Between Lost River/Tule Lake and the areas northeast of Goose Lake Smith and Dennison, January 31, 1856 in H. Mis. Doc. 47, 35th Cong., 2nd Sess., 1859, serial 1016, 29; Grover and Kelly, January 13, 1857 in H. Mis. Doc. 47, 35th Cong., 2nd Sess., 1859, serial 1016, 31. See also Walker to Ross, November 6, 1854 in H. Misc. Doc. 47, 35th Cong., 2nd Sess., 1859, serial 1016, 12-13 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0787a.pdf
II October, 1854 2 Goose Lake Valley Wells, History of Siskiyou County, 137 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0284a.pdf
I 1855 10 Warm Springs? “Chief of the Fall River band” in Curtis, North American Indian, 13:133 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0049a.gif
III 1855 50 – 60 “near Danaville (now Dana)” “Chief of the Fall River band” in Curtis, North American Indian, 13:133 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0791a.gif
III Before October 21, 1855 ~25 25 miles from Red Bluff Bumpis summarized by Correspondent, October 21, 1855 in SDU, October 24, 1855, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0803.pdf
III December 26, 1855 5 Bidwell’s Ranch, Butte County Cowles in DAC, December 29, 1855, 2; Correspondent in SDU, December 29, 1855, 2; San Francisco Bulletin, December 29, 1855, 3 and December 31, 1855, 3 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0805.pdf
III March, 1856 6 “near Shingletown” Shasta Republican, March 8, 1856, 2; Shasta Republican in DAC, March 12, 1856, 2
III March, 1856 ~30 Near “Cold Spring Valley, which is about sixteen miles east of Red Bluffs” Shasta Republican, March 8, 1856, 2; Shasta Republican in DAC, March 12, 1856, 2
III April 15, 1856 ~20 “Harrill’s mill, on Cow Creek” Shasta Republican, April 19, 1856, 2; Mr. Skillman in SDU, April 19, 1856, 2 and DAC, April 20, 1856, 2; San Francisco Bulletin, April 22, 1856, 1
II April 16, 1856 1 Probably Cow Creek or Oak Run Moornan in Shasta Republican, April 19, 1856, 2
III April 17 or 18, 1856 13 “Clover Creek” Shasta Republican, April 19, 1856, 2; San Francisco Bulletin, April 22, 1856, 1
III A few days after July 29 or July 30, 1856 8 Near Tule Lake and Bloody Point SDU, August 11, 1856, 1; Wells, History of Siskiyou, 142 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0822.pdf

 

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II July 29 or July 30, 1856 2 At and near Tule Lake SDU, August 11, 1856, 1; Wells, History of Siskiyou County, 142 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0328a.jpg

 

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II A few days after July 29 or July 30, 1856 3 Near Tule Lake SDU, August 11, 1856, 1; Wells, History of Siskiyou County, 142 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0329a.jpg

 

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III On or before October 3, 1856 26 Tule Lake Correspondent, October 3, 1856 in SDU, October 17, 1856, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0827.pdf
II August 7, 1856 1 Pit River Region SDU, September 2, 1856, 1 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0331a.jpg
III On or Before October 16, 1856 5 Pit River Region SDU, October 21, 1856, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0830.pdf
II August 17 or August 18, 1856 2 – 3 Island Near Bloody Point SDU, September 2, 1856, 1; Shasta Republican, August 30, 1856, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0332a.jpg
II Between August 21 and September 4, 1856 4 Great Klamath Lake, possibly in Oregon SDU, September 17, 1856, 1 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0333a.jpg
III August or September, 1856 6 On Pit River Judah in Shasta Republican, September 13, 1856, 2
III August 7, 1856 9 – 10 Pit River Region SDU, September 2, 1856, 1; Shasta Republican, August 30, 1856, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0823.pdf
II September 8, 1856 1 “near Hat Creek” Shasta Courier in SDU, September 5, 1856, 4
II September 9, 1856 1 “in the vicinity of Hat Creek” Shasta Republican, September 13, 1856, 2
III September 20, 1856 8 – 10 “near the headquarters of the chief of the Modocs, Old Lalakes, on Clear Lake” SDU, October 8, 1856, 2; Butte Record, October 11, 1856, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0825.pdf
II September 21, 1856 3 “three miles” from Cosby’s camp SDU, October 8, 1856, 2; Butte Record, October 11, 1856, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0337a.jpg
II Before September 29, 1856 5 in multiple attacks Pit River region SDU, October 17, 1856, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0338.pdf
III Late January or early February, 1857 5 Lockhart’s Ferry, Pit River Butte Record, February 21, 1857, 2, May 2, 1857, 3; Shasta Republican, February 14, 1857, 2
II March 25, 1857 1 Pit River Fox in Yreka Union in Butte Record, May 2, 1857, 3
II ~April 1, 1857 1 Pit River Valley Shasta Republican, April 11, 1857, 2
III Likely April, 1857 10 – 12 (“women and children”) “on the rim of a canon near Dixie valley” “Chief of the Fall River band” in Curtis, North American Indian, 13:133-134 NOTE: This massacre may be the same one described above http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0836a.gif
III April 7, 1857 16 Pit River Fox in Butte Record, May 2, 1857, 3
III Between ~April 1 and May 1, 1857 59 (including a massacre committed between April 18 and May 1, 1857) Summary of the Mounted Volunteers of Siskiyou County Expedition in the Pit River region Yreka Union, May 7, 1857, in SDU, May 12, 1857, 1. Note: this figure is used only to calculate the low-end total numbers of California Indians killed as other sources suggest that this expedition may have killed as many as seventy-two people. http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i1071.pdf
II Before April 21, 1857 3 “about ten or twelve miles up the East Fork of Pitt River, above the Ferry” Lockhart to Shasta Courier, April 21, 1857 in SDU, April 28, 1857, 2; Fox in Yreka Union in Butte Record, May 2, 1857, 3
III Between April 18 and May 1, 1857 59 Pit River Region Yreka Union, May 7, 1857 in SDU, May 12, 1857, 1
II After May 27, 1857 1 Pit River region Crook, General George Crook, 39 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0349a.pdf
II Before June 20, 1857 1 Near Yreka Road in Pit River region Oldom summarized in Butte Record, June 20, 1857, 3
II June 26, 1857 1 Pit River Yreka Union, July 2, 1857 in SDU, July 8, 1857, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0353.pdf
II After June 27, 1857 2 Pit River region Crook, General George Crook, 43 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0354a.pdf
III July 2, 1857 35+ “about twenty-five miles from” Fort Crook Saunders in Yreka Union, July 16, 1857 in SDU, July 20, 1857, 2 and DAC, July 23, 1857, 1 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0840.pdf
II July 4, 1857 1 Pit River region Crook, General George Crook, 45 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0355a.pdf
III June 7, 1857 3 – 5 “some twenty-five miles above the ferry on Pitt River” Shasta Republican, June 20, 1857, 3; Siskiyou Chronicle in Butte Record, June 27, 1857, 3
III July 7, 1857 21 Pit River Region C. in Shasta Republican, July 18, 1857, 2
II Before July 11, 1857 1 Pit River region Dryer in Butte Record, July 11, 1857, 4
III June 15, 1857 2 – 50+ “about four miles above Lassen’s cabin…in Mill creek canon” in addition to running fight down-canyon Red Bluff Beacon, June 17, 1857, 2; Red Bluff Beacon and Chaffee in Shasta Republican, June 20, 1857, 2, reprinted in DAC, June 22, 1857, 2 and SDU, June 20, 1857, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0839.pdf
III July 25, 1857 23+ – 30 60 miles east of Fort Crook or “forty miles above Fort Crook” Yreka Union in Shasta Republican, August 8, 1857, 2 and SDU, August 5, 1857, 2; Sanders in SDU, August 4, 1857, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0842.pdf
II Between July 7, and July 11, 1857 2 Pit River region Dryer in Butte Record, July 11, 1857, 4; Yreka Union in SDU, August 5, 1857, 2 and Shasta Republican August 8, 1857, 2
II Summer, 1857 4 Pit River region “Chief of the Fall River band” in Curtis, North American Indian, 13:134 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0350a.gif
II August, 1857 2 “in the Hat Creek country” McCall in Yreka Chronicle, August 27, 1857 in SDU, September 1, 1857, 3; Shasta Republican, September 5, 1857, 2
II Late September, 1857 1 “on Battle Creek” near present-day Redding Shasta Republican in SDU, September 29, 1857, 2 and DAC, October 1, 1857, 1 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0366.pdf
III October 17, 1857 7 – 11 Southern end of Honey Lake Valley Fairfield, Fairfield’s Pioneer History of Lassen County…, 85; J. Williams in SDU, October 24, 1857, 2; Shasta Republican, October 31, 1857, 4 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0843a.jpg
II Before October 19, 1857 3 Honey Lake Valley Fairfield, Fairfield’s Pioneer History of Lassen County…, 83 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0368a.jpg
II Before November 4, 1857 4 “on Battle Creek, in Tehama county” Red Bluff Beacon, November 4, 1857 in SDU, November 6, 1857, 3; DAC, November 7, 1857, 2; DEB, November 9, 1857, 3 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0369.pdf
II Winter of 1857-1858 2 “the lava beds” near Lockhardt’s Ferry “Chief of the Fall River band” in Curtis, North American Indian, 13:133 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0371a.gif
III “several days” before February 2, 1858 10 – 12 Likely between a point “a few miles south of Smith’s Ranch on the Yreka road, Shasta County” and Antelope Creek Red Bluff Beacon, February 2, 1858, 2
II Early April, 1858 2 Somewhere near Honey Lake Roop in Shasta Republican, May 8, 1858, 1; DAC, May 13, 1858, 1 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0383.pdf
II On or before April 20, 1858 1 Honey Lake Valley Correspondent to SDU, May 4, 1858, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0385.pdf
I Spring of 1858 10 On or near Antelope Creek Delaney, “Adventures of Captain Hi Good,” 1 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0056a.pdf
II Between April 18 and May 6, 1858 4 Grasshopper Valley, north of Honey Lake Valley Dow and Hines in Fairfield, Fairfield’s Pioneer History of Lassen County…, 114-115 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0384a.pdf
III Between April 28 and May 5, 1858 ~15 Battle Creek Red Bluff Beacon, May 5, 1858, 2 reprinted in SDU, May 7, 1858, 1, DEB, May 8, 1858, 3 and DAC, May 9, 1858, 1 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0850.pdf
III Before May 3, 1858 40 – 50 “near ‘Lassen’s Peak’” Correspondent, May 3, 1858 in SDU, May 6, 1858, 1 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0849.pdf
III May 6, 1858 17 – 50 Goose Lake Oroville Advertiser in DAC, May 9, 1858, 1; Garlow in Butte Record, May 10, 1858 reprinted in SDU, May 12, 1858, 2, DAC, May 13, 1858, 1 and Shasta Republican, May 15, 1858, 2; Adams summarized in Red Bluff Beacon, May 26, 1858, 2; Dow and Hines in Fairfield, Fairfield’s Pioneer History of Lassen County…, 116-119 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0851.pdf

 

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II May 18, 1858 1 Battle Creek Red Bluff Beacon, May 19, 1858, 2, reprinted in SDU, May 21, 1858, 3 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0388.pdf
II Before May 19, 1858 1 “Antelope Canyon” Red Bluff Beacon, May 19, 1858, 2, reprinted in SDU, May 21, 1858, 3 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0389.pdf
II June 5, 1858 1 “Kinshew tribe, at Crane Valley” Letter, June 6 in Marysville News in SDU, June 9, 1858, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0394.pdf
II Early August, 1858 1 “near Antelope mills” Red Bluff Beacon, August 25, 1858, 2; DAC, August 28, 1858, 1 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0398.pdf
II Before November 20, 1858 2 “near Squaw Creek” Shasta Courier, November 20, 1858 in SDU, November 22, 1858, 1; DAC, November 23, 1858, 1 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0405.pdf
III January 23, 1859 “10-12” “in Shasta county” Shasta Courier, January 29, 1859, 2, reprinted in DAC, February 2, 1859, 1; SDU, February 1, 1859, 3; Red Bluff Beacon, February 2, 1859, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0871.pdf
III March, 1859 14 “Grapevine” on the edge of Mill Creek Sauber, “True Tales of the Old West, XV— Hi Good and the ‘Mill Creeks,’” 127 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0874a.jpg
III After June 15, 1859 41 South of Chico Creek Anderson, Fighting the Mill Creeks, 22-24 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0884a.pdf
III Between July 24 and July 31, 1859 5 “between the headwaters of Butte and Deer Creeks” Red Bluff Beacon, August 3, 1859, 2, reprinted in SDU, August 5, 1859, 4 and DEB, August 6, 1859, 3 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0885.pdf
III Between July 24 and July 31, 1859 10 At or near the area “between the headwaters of Butte and Deer Creeks” Red Bluff Beacon, August 3, 1859, 2, reprinted in SDU, August 5, 1859, 4 and DEB, August 6, 1859, 3 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0886.pdf
III July 28, 1859 9+ ~2 miles from “Forks of Butte” Correspondent, Forks of Butte, July 28, 1859 in SDU, August 6, 1859, 2, reprinted in DAC, August 8, 1859, 1; Butte Herald correspondent, July 29, 1859 in DAC, August 9, 1859, 1 and DEB, August 8, 1859, 3; Citizens of the Forks of Butte in SDU, August 20, 1859, 1 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0887.pdf
III Before August 27, 1859 13 Fort Crook Region Shasta Herald, August 27, 1859, 2
III Before August 30, 1859 21 Pit River region (?) Shasta Courier in DAC, August 30, 1859, 2 and DEB, August 31, 1859, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0893.pdf
II August or September, 1859 2 Rock Creek Canyon region Disbanded Volunteer in Red Bluff Beacon, December 14, 1859, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0434.pdf
I After September 3, 1859 3 Fort Crooks tribe DAC, January 26, 1860, 1 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0059a.pdf
I After September 3, 1859 3 “near Fall River” DAC, January 26, 1860, 1 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0060a.pdf
III September 3, 1859 62 – 160 Rolf’s Ranch, Beaver Creek, Pit River Valley Shasta Courier, September 17, 1859, 2; Yount in Daily Alta California in SDU, January 30, 1860, 1; Kibbe volunteer, October 8, 1859 in Trinity Journal, October 15, 1859, 2, reprinted in SDU, October 19, 1859, 2; Telegram, September 6, 1859 in SDU, September 7, 1859, 2, DEB, September 8, 1859, 3, and DAC, September 9, 1859, 1; Shasta Herald, September 10, 1859, 2; Landt in Plumas Argus, October 1, 1859 in SDU, October 4, 1859, 1, DEB, October 5, 1859, 3, DAC, October 6, 1859, 1; “Chief of the Fall River band” in Curtis, North American Indian, 13:134 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0894g.gif
III Multiple Incidents after September 3, 1859 20 Region near “the north side of Pit river at the mouth of Fall river” “Chief of the Fall River band” in Curtis, North American Indian, 13:134 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0895a.gif
I Before September 5, 1859 0-3 Near Centerville Red Bluff Beacon in DAC, September 5, 1859, 1 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0061a.jpg
II Before September 10, 1859 1-2 “Hat Creek Country” Hazlett, in Shasta Herald, September 19, 1859, 2.
II Before September 11, 1859 4 – 5 Unreported Telegram in DAC, September 11, 1859, 1; Shasta Herald, September 17, 1859, 2; Yreka Union in Butte Democrat, September 17, 1859, 3; Yreka Union in DEB, September 28, 1859, 3 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0435.pdf
II Before September 28, 1859 2 “Near Lockhart’s Ferry” Yreka Union in DEB, September 28, 1859, 3
II Before October 1, 1859 2 At or near Roff’s Ranch, following the massacre there Landt in Plumas Argus, October 1, 1859 in DAC, October 6, 1859, 1. http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0437.pdf
III October 5, 1859 6 Northeast shores of Eagle Lake S., October 10, 1859 in Red Bluff Beacon, October 26, 1859, 1, reprinted in Shasta Herald, October 29, 1859, 2 and SDU, October 28, 1859, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0898.pdf
I On or before October 10, 1859 10 “at a lake on the head waters of Pitt [sic] river” Kibbe in Red Bluff Beacon, October 12, 1859, 2, summarized in DAC, October 15, 1859, 1 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0062a.jpg
III August 16-December 25, 1859 ~200 Complete Pit River Expedition Summary Kibbe, Report of the Expedition Against the Indians in the Northern Part of this State, 7; Red Bluff Beacon, December 7, 1859, 2; Shasta Herald, January 21, 1860, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0909a.pdf
III Before October 26, 1859 23 Summary of Indians killed by “Shasta volunteers,” in northeastern California Belden in Plumas Standard in SDU, October 26, 1859, 3 and Butte Democrat, October 29, 1859, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0900.pdf
III November 1, 1859 80 (men) Summary of Pit River Expedition (militia) H.W.S., November 1, 1859 in SDU, November 8, 1859, 3 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0901.pdf
I Before mid-December, 1859 3 “the Indian stronghold” in the Pit River and Hat Creek region Kibbe, Report, 56-57 (in edition located, original pp 6-7) http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0063a.pdf
III February, 1860 3 – 17 Black Rock, Mill Creek Canyon Kauffman, “Nosea Indians,” Newspaper clipping ca.1882, Gans Scrapbook
II May, 1860 1 “Butte Creek” Brown in SDU, June 12, 1860, 3 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0454.pdf
II May, 1860 3 – 4 “the house of a Mr. Baker, sixty miles from Yreka, in the Modoc country” Scott in DAC, January 6, 1861, 1 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0455.pdf
II Before May 12, 1860 1 “near Clear Creek, on the Klamath” River Northern Californian in DAC, May 12, 1860, 1; HT, May 12, 1860, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0451.pdf
III May 24, 1860 5 Butte Valley, “about twenty-five miles east of Yreka” May 25 letter in DAC, May 26, 1860, 1 and SDU, May 26, 1860, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0926.pdf
II Before June 13, 1860 1 Near “the road between the Sacramento River and Hat Creek” Red Bluff Beacon, June 13, 1860 in DAC, June 16, 1860, 1 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0457.pdf
II Before June 16, 1860 4 Near “the road between Sacramento River and Hat Creek” Red Bluff Beacon in Shasta Herald, June 16, 1860, 2; HT, June 30, 1860, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0458.pdf
II Before June 25, 1860 1 25 miles south of Klamath Reservation Northern Californian in SDU, June 25, 1860, 4 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0459.pdf
II Before October 6, 1860 1 On McCloud River Shasta Courier, October 6, 1860 in SDU, October 9, 1860, 1, DEB, October 11, 1860, 2 and DAC, October 11, 1860, 1 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0465.pdf
II Before January 11, 1861 1 Pit River Valley SDU, February 19, 1861, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0471.pdf
II Before May 9, 1861 4 “Mill Creek, in Tehama County” Shasta Herald, May 9, 1861 in Marysville Appeal, May 12, 1861, 2; Shasta Herald, May 11(?), 1861 in DEB, May 15, 1861, 1
II August 5, 1861 1 “Upper Pitt River Valley” WOR, 1:50:1, 22-23 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0489a.pdf
II Mid-December, 1861 1 “a couple of miles southeast of Janesville” Cain and Lomas in Fairfield, Fairfield’s Pioneer History of Lassen County…, 248-249 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0499a.pdf
II March 30, 1862 2 Lathrop Ranch, Honey Lake Valley Harper, Asbury, and Tunison in Fairfield, Fairfield’s Pioneer History of Lassen County…, 280-281 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0503a.pdf
I July 1, 1862 3 Yahi Yana Territory Butte Record, July 5, 1862, 2, reprinted in SDU, July 7, 1862, 4; Anderson, Fighting the Mill Creeks, 55 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0074a.jpg

 

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III Summer, 1862 8 East of Red Bluff Anderson, Fighting the Mill Creeks, 55 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0979a.jpg
II Early August, 1862 1 “near Thoms Creek” Rogers, Colusa County, 93
II August 3, 1862 1 “fifteen or twenty miles east of Red Bluff” on or near “Big Antelope” Creek Red Bluff Semi-weekly Independent, August 8, 1862, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0525.pdf
III August 4, 1862 23 – 25 “Big Antelope” Creek or “the head of Antelope Creek” Red Bluff Beacon, August 7, 1862, 2; Red Bluff Semi-Weekly Independent, August 8, 1862, 2; Marysville Daily Appeal, August 9, 1862, 2; SDU, August 21, 1862, 2; Delaney in Northern Enterprise, June 7, 1872, 2; Anderson, Fighting the Mill Creeks, 55 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0982.pdf

 

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II August 14, 1862 4 Mill Creek Good, August 18, 1862 in Red Bluff Beacon, August 21, 1862, 3; SDU, August 21, 1862, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0526.pdf
II September 26, 1862 1 “about half a mile west of Fort Janesville” Fairfield, Fairfield’s Pioneer History of Lassen County…, 289-290 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0527a.pdf
III November 17, 1862 11+ (“seven Indians, and squaws and papooses”) Near Pit River and “Tula valley” Tunison in Fairfield, Fairfield’s Pioneer History of Lassen County, 293-294 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0985a.pdf
II Before March 12, 1863 3 “seven or eight miles above Chico” Oroville Union, March 14, 1863 in SDU, March 16, 1863, 3 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0533.pdf
II June, 1863 3 Deer Creek region Delaney, “Adventures of Captain Hi Good,” 1 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0541a.pdf
III June, 1863 7 Near “the breaks of Mill Creek” Anderson, Fighting the Mill Creeks, 66, 70 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i1001a.pdf
III June 7 or 8, 1863 5 Helltown, Butte County Correspondent in SDU, June 11, 1863, 2; Wells and Chambers, History of Butte County, 219 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i1002b.pdf
II July 24, 1863 3 “near Hupp & Co.’s mills” in Butte County Oroville Union, August 1, 1863 in Bancroft Scraps, 36:116 and San Francisco Bulletin, August 6, 1863, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0551a.pdf
II Late April, 1864 1 Round Mountain, 40 miles from Fort Crook WOR, 1:50:2, 566 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0577a.pdf
II Before June 13, 1864 1 “Millville, Shasta county” SDU, June 13, 1864, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0581.pdf
III Before August 13, 1864 12+ Ten miles northwest of Surprise Valley “in the direction of Goose Lake.” Snow Shoe, Susanville to Editors Appeal, August 13, 1864 in Marysville Daily Appeal, August 23, 1864, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i1018.pdf
II Early September, 1864 2 – 3 Oak Run Ayres, “NOTES,” 3 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0584a.pdf
II Early September, 1864 1 “about two miles above the mill on Cow Creek” Ayres, “NOTES,” 3 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0585a.pdf
III September, 1864 300 North of Millville Curtin, Creation Myths, 519 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i1020a.pdf
I Probably September or October, 1864 1 Bear Creek Informant in Waterman, “Yana Indians,” 51 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0080a.pdf
II September or October, 1864 3 “Millville” Curtin, Creation Myths, 517-518 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0587a.pdf
II September or October, 1864 1 Yana Territory Curtin, Creation Myths, 517-518 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0588a.pdf
II September or October, 1864 3 “a few miles north of Millville” Curtin, Creation Myths, 517-518 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0589a.pdf
II September or October, 1864 3 “a Little Cow Creek farm” Curtin, Creation Myths, 518-519 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0590a.pdf
II September or October, 1864 2 Yana Territory Curtin, Creation Myths, 519 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0591a.pdf
II September or October, 1864 3 Yana Territory Curtin, Creation Myths, 519 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0592a.pdf
II September or October, 1864 3 Yana or Achumawi Territory Ayres, “NOTES,” 4 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0593a.pdf
II September or October, 1864 1 Bear Creek Informant in Waterman, “Yana Indians,” 51 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0594a.pdf
III Before September 24, 1864 12+ Antelope Creek Shasta Courier, September 24, 1864, 2, reprinted in SDU, September 26, 1864, 2; Red Bluff Independent, September 26, 1864 in Marysville Appeal, September 30, 1864, 3 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i1019.pdf
III September or October, 1864 7 Various instances in and around Millville Curtin, Creation Myths, 518 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i1021a.pdf
III After March 18, 1865 [Delaney dated this 1861 but Mrs. Moore was killed in 1865] 8 “near to Oak Grove” in Yahi Yana territory SDU, March 27, 1865, 3; Delaney, “Adventures of Captain Hi Good,” 1 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i1027.pdf

 

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II Before July 24, 1865 1 Near Mill Creek Canyon Red Bluff Independent in SDU, July 24, 1865, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0604.pdf
I Before August 12, 1865 10 “at Con-Cow and other places” Weekly Butte Record, August 12, 1865, 3; See also Moak, Last of the Mill Creeks, 18; and Wells and Chambers, History of Butte County, 2:221 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0082a.jpg
II August 13 or 14, 1865 1 Mill Creek Canyon Anderson, Fighting the Mill Creeks, 80 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0606a.jpg
II August 13 or 14, 1865 1 Mill Creek Canyon Anderson, Fighting the Mill Creeks, 81 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0613a.jpg
III August 13 or 14, 1865 5 – 16+ “in the region of the three knolls,” upper Mill Creek Dispatch, August 15, 1865 in SDU, August 16, 1865, 2; Shasta Courier, August 19, 1865, 2; Butte Union Record, August 19, 1865, 3; Klauberg, August 20, 1865 in Butte Union Record, August, 26, 1865, 3; Anderson, Fighting the Mill Creeks, 71-81
III 1866 10 Deer Creek Delaney, “Adventures of Captain Hi Good,” 1 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i1029a.pdf
II Before April 14, 1866 2 Deer Creek Moak, Last of the Mill Creek, 24-26; Chico Courant, April 14, 1866, 3 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0616a.pdf
II Late June, 1866 4 Papoose Valley, near Eagle Lake Dow in Fairfield, Fairfield’s Pioneer History of Lassen County…, 397-398 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0617a.pdf
II Late June, 1866 1 Near Susanville Dow and Hines in Fairfield, Fairfield’s Pioneer History, 397-399 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0618a.pdf
II August 22, 1866 1 Bear Creek Shasta Courier, August 25, 1866, 2, September 1, 1866, 2
III After August 22, 1866 ~30 Cave North of Dye Creek Waterman, “Yana Indians,” 51; Dersch in Southern, Our Storied Landmarks, 94-95 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i1031a.pdf
II August 29, 1866 4 – 5 Antelope Creek Shasta Courier, September 1, 1866, 2; Red Bluff Independent, September 5, 1866, 2
III August 29, 1866 5 Near the headwaters of Antelope Creek or “two miles [from] the Antelope Flour mill, five miles from Red Bluff” Red Bluff Independent, September 5, 1866, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i1032.pdf

 

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III Before October 6, 1866 4 – 5 “cave on the head of Antelope Creek” Shasta Courier, October 6, 1866, 2
III Before November 10, 1866 14+ “West of Warner Basin and north of Surprise Valley” Shasta Courier, November 17, 1866, 2
III January, 1867 7 Near Surprise Valley H., March 30, 1867 in Plumas National, April 27, 1867, 3
III Between May 16 and May 22, 1867 5 – 7 “Buck’s Flat, on Little Antelope creek” Red Bluff Independent, May 22, 1867, 3 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i1038.pdf
II Before June 22, 1867 2 Antelope Creek Shasta Courier, June 22, 1867, 2, reprinted in Red Bluff Independent, June 26, 1867, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0627.pdf
III June 27, 1867 7 “Ink’s creek, above the Yokum place” Red Bluff Independent, July 3, 1867, 3 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i1039.pdf
III September 22-25, 1867 12 Between the California border on the west side of Goose to the forks of Pit River Parnell, in Bourke, “General Crook in the Indian Country,” 645 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i1041a.pdf
III September 26-28, 1867 8 – 20+ Lava field near the South Fork of Pit River Bassett, October 28, 1867 in Yreka Weekly Union, November 2, 1867, 3; Military Express, October 28, 1867 in DAC, October 29, 1867, 1 and SDU, October 29, 1867, 2; Joe in Owyhee Avalanche, November 2, 1867, 2; Correspondent, November 14, 1867 in SDU, December 5, 1867, 5
III Fall of 1867 8 – 9 Antelope Valley Area Shasta Courier, May 23, 1868, 2
III May 6, 1868 16 Northern end of Surprise Valley Sage Brush, May 16, 1868, 3; Shasta Courier, May 30, 1868, 2
II Autumn of 1868 1 Just south of Susanville Fairfield, Fairfield’s Pioneer History of Lassen County…, 480 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0635a.jpg
II Before October 10, 1868 3 Near Susanville Sage Brush in Reno Crescent, October 10, 1868, 2
I Spring of 1869 3 On or near Deer Creek Delaney, “Adventures of Captain Hi Good,” 1 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0086a.pdf
I Before November 27, 1869 2 “near the foot of Long Valley,” somewhere near Honey Lake Yreka Weekly Union, November 27, 1869, 2
II March, 1870 1 Mill Creek Segraves in Waterman, “Yana Indians,” 57-58 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0642a.pdf
II March 21, 1871 2 “Squaw Creek” Shasta Courier, March 25, 1871, 2; in Sentinel, April 1, 1871, 2 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0645.pdf
III April, 1871 ~30 Near Mill Creek headwaters Novall in Waterman, “Yana Indians,” 57 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i1050a.pdf
III November 29, 1872 2 –  7 “Lost River” in the California/Oregon borderlands Murray, Modocs and Their War, 88-89; Meacham, Wi-ne-ma, 80-81 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i1051a.pdf
II January 17, 1873 1 Captain Jack’s Stronghold Wheaton, in Thompson, Modoc War, 43, 169 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i1067a.jpg
III April 14-17, 1873 1 – 16 Captain Jack’s Stronghold in Modoc lava beds Simpson, Meeting the Sun, 377; Brady, Northwestern Fights and Fighters, 248; Thompson, Modoc War, 77-78 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i1052a.jpg

 

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II April 26, 1873 0 – 1 Sandy Butte Murray, Modocs and Their War, 236; Quinn, Hell with the Fire Out, 152; Thompson, Modoc War, 91 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0647a.jpg

 

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II May 10, 1873 1 – 2 Soreass/Dry Lake Murray, Modocs and Their War, 248; Quinn, Hell with the Fire Out, 159-160; Thompson, Modoc War, 98 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0648b.pdf
III May 18, 1873 5 (2 men and 3 women) “near Fairchild’s Ranch” Hasbrouck in Brady, Northwestern Fights and Fighters, 324 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i1053a.jpg
II June 7, 1873 4 Near Tule Lake? DAC, June 10, 1873, 1; Murray, Modocs and Their War, 277 http://nahc.ca.gov/webmaster/atlas/evidence/i0649.pdf

 

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TOTAL ESTIMATED NUMBER KILLED IN REGION: 2,205-2,676

*Appendix (Appx.) refers to the reference’s location in:

Benjamin Madley, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016.

For full bibliographical references please refer to the text or Atlas credits & references

Abbreviations used in timeline:

DAC: Daily Alta Californian newspaper (San Francisco)

DEB: Daily Evening Bulletin newspaper (San Francisco)

HT: Humboldt Times

IWP: California Adjutant General’s Office, Military Department, Adjutant General, Indian War Papers F3753

SDU Sacramento Daily Union newspaper

WOR U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. 4 series, 130 volumes. Series 1, volume 50, part 1 [WOR 1:50:1], etc.

For full bibliographical references please refer to the text or Atlas credits & references