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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 4 0 Browse Search
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Shoshone Indians, or Snake Indians, (search)
n of the country west of and among the Rocky Mountains. They embraced a number of warlike tribes, among whom the Comanches are best known in American history. According to their traditions, they came from the South. When Lewis and Clarke saw them, in 1805, they had been driven beyond the Rocky Mountains. They were widespread, and generally peaceful. The bands of Shoshones have gone by various names. The overland emigrants to California met them in the Great Salt Lake region, on the Humboldt River, and at other places. Soon after that emigration began, these bands assumed a hostile attitude towards the white people, and in 1849 some of them were engaged in open war. Short periods of peace were obtained by treaties, and finally, in 1864, some of the Shoshones ceded their lands to the United States. The non-fulfilment of the agreement on the part of the latter caused the Indians to begin hostilities again. In 1867 a treaty was made at Fort Bridger, after which the United States g
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nevada, (search)
1890, 45,761; 1900, 42,335. Capital, Carson City. Father Francisco Garces sets out from Sonora for California, and passes through the southern portion of Nevada......1775 Peter Skeen Ogden, of the Hudson Bay Fur Company, discovers the Humboldt River......1825 Jedediah S. Smith crosses the southeast corner of Nevada on his way from Great Salt Lake to Los Angeles, Cal., and on his return crosses the Sierra Nevada and the entire State of Nevada from west to east......1827 Joseph Walker and thirty-five or forty men, trappers, pass through Nevada from Great Salt Lake by the Humboldt River into California......1832-33 A party under Elisha Stevens, sometimes called the Murphy Company, pass through Nevada down the Humboldt in wagons on their way to California......1844 Gen. J. C. Fremont's expedition crosses Nevada from near Pilot Knob into California......1845 Nevada included in the territory ceded to the United States by the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo......Feb. 2, 18
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, California Volunteers. (search)
rchill October 22, 1861. Duty there till July, 1862. March via Ruby Valley to Utah to protect Overland mail route July to November, 1862. Expedition from Fort Ruby, Nev., to Camp Douglass, Utah, September 30-October 29. Affairs on Humboldt River October 11 and 15, 1862. Expedition from Camp Douglass to Cache Valley November 20-27, 1862. Skirmish at Cache Valley November 23. Engagement on Bear River, Utah, January 29, 1863. Expedition from Camp Douglass to Spanish Fork Aprny K --Ordered to Utah July 5, 1862. March via Fort Churchill and Ruby Valley to Utah to protect Overland mail route July to November, 1862. Expedition from Fort Ruby, Nev., to Camp Douglass, Utah, September 30-October 29. Affairs on Humboldt River October 11 and 15. Expedition from Camp Douglass to Cache Valley November 20-27, 1862. Cache Valley November 23. Engagement on Bear River, Utah, January 29, 1863. At Fort Ruby and in District of Utah till December, 1864. At Cam
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 18: bucks and squaws. (search)
han males, and in these lodges the females are bought and sold like cows and slaves. Rounding Cape Horn and passing the summit near Truckee, three or four miles from Donner Lake, the scene of a wild winter legend, we dip into the valley of Humboldt River, a valley rising higher than the top of Snowdon; and are now among the savage mountain tribes-Utes and Shoshones-horse Indians, they are called, in contrast with the tamer savages of the Pacific Slope. At Winnemucca, called after a stout Po work. I get more dollar, buy more squaw. You make them work for you? The rascal grins, and clutches at his brand. Poor creatures, he will make them grind and toil; perhaps lend them out as road-menders, possibly drive them to the Humboldt River camps. Among the Mission Indians, who are broken more or less to gentle ways, a buck may beat his squaw, in passion, but he seldom forces her to work. His women, as a rule, are willing slaves, eager to sweat for their ungrateful lord; but i
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
California in August 1848 (1848), by Henry I. Simpson, of the New York Volunteers. This book has become rare. Another early but not scarce gold item is Theodore T. Johnson's Sights and scenes in the Gold regions, and scenes by the way (1849). The gold seekers got as far as Salt Lake over the Oregon Trail by Bear River; or from Ft. Bridger by the new way Hastings had found a little farther south, and more direct, through Echo Canyon. From Salt Lake the chief trail west led down the Humboldt River to the Sierra and over that mighty barrier by what became known as Donner Pass to commemorate the Donner party and the shocking result of their miscalculation, the details of which are given in The expedition of the Donner party and its tragic fate (1911) by Mrs. Eliza P. Donner Houghton. The Diary of one of the Donner Party by Patrick Breen, edited by F. J. Taggart, is given in Publications of Pacific Coast history, vol. v. (1910); and C. F. McGlashan published a History of the Donner
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Index. (search)
71 Houma, La. 135-A; 156, F8; 171 Houston, Miss. 76, 1; 117, 1; 135-A; 154, F12; 171 Houston, Mo. 135-A; 153, A4 Houston, Tex. 43, 8; 54, 1; 135-A; 157, D7; 171 Howard's Mills, Ky. 141, D3 Howell's Ferry, Ga. 60, 1, 60, 2; 96, 5 Hudson, Mo. 135-A; 152, A4 Camp Hudson, Tex. 54, 1; 171 Hudsonville, Miss. 154, B11 Huger, Battery, Ala. 71, 13 Humansville, Mo. 152, G1; 161, H12 Humboldt, Tenn. 135-A; 153, G12 Humboldt River, Nev. Ter. 120, 1; 134, 1; 171 Hundley's Corner, Va. 20, 1; 55, 5; 63, 8; 81, 3; 92, 1; 100, 2 Hungary Station, Va. 16, 1; 17, 1; 74, 1; 86, 12; 100, 1, 100, 2; 117, 1, 135-A; 137, E7 Hunnewell, Mo. 152, A5 Hunter's Chapel, Va.: Vicinity of, toward Fairfax Court-House, Va., Nov., 1861 5, 10 Hunter's Mills, Va. 8, 1; 27, 1; 91, 2; 100, 1 Hunterstown, Pa. 43, 1, 43, 7; 116, 2 Huntersville, W. Va. 30, 5; 84, 9, 84, 10; 116, 3; 135-A; 135-C, 1; 141