CategoryMountain Pacific

Part of our in-depth series exploring the Mountain Pacific Forts The following is from the book, Indian Wars, by Bill Yenne. In 1832, a Zacatecan priest named Father Jose Maria Mercado led an ambush of a group of Pomo people that he mistakenly...

Part of our in-depth series exploring the Mountain Pacific Forts The following is from the book, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars, by Gregory F. Michno. 10 June 1857: After hearing reports of massacres of white settlers in the Pit River Valley during the...

Part of our in-depth series exploring the Mountain Pacific Forts The following is from the book, Indian Wars, by Bill Yenne. George Crook was sent to Fort Boise in 1866 as commander of the 23rd Infantry Regiment and tasked with a mission similar to...

Part of our in-depth series exploring the Mountain Pacific Forts Topics (click on a topic to jump to that section) Battle Rock | Bear Creek | Bear River | Bennan's Prairie | Big Creek/Vinegar Hill | Big Meadows/Big Bend | Birch Creek, ID | Birch...

Part of our in-depth series exploring the Mountain Pacific Forts The following is from the Picture This, Early California web site. Following the end of the Civil War in 1865, settlement of the West increased rapidly, and the mass movement of...

Part of our in-depth series exploring the Mountain Pacific Forts The following Massacre Rocks Massacre story occurred just southwest of Fort Hall on the Snake River and can be found in the book, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars, by Gregory F. Michno...