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FAIRFIELD'S PIONEER
HISTORY OF LASSEN
COUNTY . CALIFORNIA
AND, IN PART, THAT OF THE STATE OF NEVADA UNTIL 1870. THE HISTORY OF A BORDER COUNTY THAT FOUGHT INDIANS, OUTLAWS, AND LEGAL AL THORITY, INCLUDING THE STORY OF LASSEN'S TRAIL ROOP'S SETTLEMENT, THE HANGING OF LUCKY BILL LASSEN'S DEATH, THE ORMSBY MASSACRE, THE BOUNDARY LINZ WAR, THE PEARSON MASSACRE
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FAIRFIELD'S PIONEER HISTORY OF LASSEN COUNTY CALIFORNIA TO 1870
THOMPSON'S STUDIO, SUSANVILLE, CALIFORNIA
Sincerely yours, Merrill Fairfield
FAIRFIELD'S PIONEER HISTORY of LASSEN COUNTY CALIFORNIA
CONTAINING EVERYTHING THAT CAN BE LEARNED ABOUT IT FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD TO THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1870
THE CHRONICLES OF A BORDER COUNTY SETTLED WITHOUT LAW, HARASSED BY SAVAGES, AND INFESTED BY OUTLAWS. ALSO MUCH OF THE PIONEER HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, SHOWING THE EFFORTS OF THE SETTLERS TO OBTAIN FREEDOM FROM MORMON RULE THE HISTORY OF LASSEN'S TRAIL, ROOP'S SETTLEMENT, THE MURDER OF HARRY GORDIER AND THE HANGING OF SNOW, EDWARDS AND "LUCKY BILL," TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME; THE BIOGRAPHIES OF GOVERNOR ISAAC N. ROOP AND PETER LASSEN, THE ORMSBY MASSACRE, THE BOUNDARY LINE WAR, THE PEARSON MASSACRE, AND MANY STORIES OF INDIAN WARFARE NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED
By ASA MERRILL FAIRFIELD
PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR BY H. S. CROCKER COMPANY SAN FRANCISCO
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Copyright BY A. M. FAIRFIELD SUSANVILLE CALIFORNIA 1916
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THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE PIONEER SETTLERS OF LASSEN COUNTY, WITH THE HOPE THAT IT MAY SERVE TO KEEP THEM IN REMEMBRANCE IN THEIR OWN LAND
FOREWORD
T HE following pages have been written for neither gain nor glory, but to preserve the names and deeds of the men and women who sowed the seeds of civilization in the mountain val- leys of Lassen County, California. Though it is not on record that the women went on the war path, except in figurative way; yet they bore their part of the toil, hardships, and dangers in- cident to the settlement of a country cut off from the outside world during the winter months, and infested by savages and outlaws.
The writer, then a boy about eleven years of age, crossed the plains in 1865, and came to Honey Lake Valley to live; and the most of his life since then has been spent here. As boy and man he was acquainted with the majority of the pioneers of the county, and many months of his life have been spent in listening to their tales of early days.
In 1909, when this work was commenced, excepting the out- line given in the "History of Plumas, Lassen, and Sierra Coun- ties," there was no history of Lassen county; and there was no likelihood that any would ever be written. Very few of the early settlers of the county were alive, and if their stories were saved and anything like a complete history written, it had to be done at once. For these reasons the writer undertook the work.
An attempt has been made to tell the truth in plain language, and no pains have been spared to obtain the truth. A great deal, perhaps the most, of what is given in the following pages in the way of Indian troubles, historical reminiscences, etc., was learned from the men who took an active part in the events narrated, or from the men and women who lived in the country at that time. As a matter of course, after a lapse of fifty years, or more, their stories are more or less conflicting in the minor details; but in nearly every case it has been possible to find some account of what they told in the publications of those days, and in that and in other ways their stories have been verified. In what is given as original, unless otherwise stated, the date and the principal facts can be depended upon.
In 1882 Fariss and Smith published a work entitled "History of Plumas, Lassen, and Sierra Counties, California." Mr. Ed- mund R. Dodge, now a prominent lawyer of Reno, Nevada, col-
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lected a great deal of the history of Lassen county contained in that work. To his work the writer is greatly indebted, for much of the information he collected at that time could now be found in no other place. Mr. Dodge obtained information from men who were dead when the writer commenced this work, and had access to at least one book which has been lost or destroyed since he used it. Isaac N. Roop, Recorder of "Nataqua," kept two books; one of which contained the land filings of the settlers, and the other a record of their political work, public meetings, arbi- trations, etc. The latter book can not be found, and what Mr. Dodge took from it is quoted in these pages. The book of filings was given by Mrs. A. T. Arnold, daughter of I. N. Roop, to Lassen county, and is now among its records. Peter Lassen, "Nataqua's" Surveyor, kept a record of the surveys made by him, but no one knows what became of his book. Roop's little book, a few entries made in the records of Plumas county, and some documents in the office of the Secretary of State at Carson City, Nevada, relating to the part the citizens of Honey Lake took in the organization of Nevada Territory, are all the records of this section made before it became a county by itself.
The history of the settlement of Western Utah, the organiza- tion of the territory of Nevada, and the political work of the Honey Lake settlers has been taken from the "History of Plumas, Lassen, and Sierra Counties," Thompson and West's "History of Nevada," and the newspapers published in Nevada and northern California at that time.
Through the kindness of Mrs. B. H. Leavitt, the writer has had the opportunity of using the diary kept by her first husband, A. L. Tunison; and from it has been obtained many facts, dates, and accounts of expeditions against the Indians. The writer also wishes to acknowledge the kind assistance of Miss Eudora Gar- outte, the lady who had charge of the California department of the State Library at Sacramento while he was collecting informa- tion there; H. B. Van Horn of the California Adjutant General's office; Miss Jeanne E. Wier, Secretary of the Nevada State His- torical Society; J. C. La Plant and V. L. Bonner of the U. S. Forest Reserve Service and Charles F. Hart, all of whom made maps of the country along the Lassen Trail; Mrs. A. T. Arnold, who contributed old letters, documents, and newspapers; and George N. McDow, President of the Lassen County Abstract Com-
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pany, who made the map that is found in this book, furnished the use of the maps in his office, and in other ways helped in this work.
The writer is sincerely grateful to those who have helped him, and intends to give every person credit for the information given. With one or two exceptions, every one has told all he could; but some have had the will and the knowledge that enabled them to give so much help that they deserve especial mention. To Fred Hines and William Dow the writer is indebted more than to any one else for information regarding the first eight or ten years' settlement of the county. Hines came here in 1856 and Dow in 1857. Both were determined men in the prime of life, and both took a prominent part in almost every important event that occurred during those years. Both were reliable men of excep- tionally good memories, and both did all they could to help in this work. If it had not been for their knowledge and their will- ingness to help, much of the most important matter in this book could not have been written. Wm. H. Clark, who settled here in 1857, also gave considerable information about the early settle- ment of the county. Mrs. Smith J. Hill came to the valley with her parents, who settled on the site of Janesville in 1857, and her husband came there the next year. They told the story of the first setlement of that place and many events that took place in the valley during the next six or eight years.
Joseph C. Wemple, Henry E. Lomas, Thomas N. Long, Wm. Milton Cain, Archibald L. Harper, Alvaro Evans, Mrs. A. T. Arnold, William H. Hall, John F. Hulsman, V. J. Borrette, J. Bristo Rice, Eber G. Bangham, Mrs. E. G. Bangham, Dr. H. S. Borrette, Wright P. Hall, Samuel R. Hall, A. W. Worm (now Wern), Charles Lawson, George W. Harrison, I. N. Jones, Mrs. Philenda Spencer, Hiram H. Dakin, Hiram N. Skadan, Daniel W. Bryant, Thomas H. Epley, J. Oscar Hemler, Mrs. Louisa Fry, William S. Brashear, Thomas Brown, W. W. Asbury, and A. G. Moon have told much of the settlment of the valley and the local events here narrated.
Besides those already named Alec. T. Arnold, John J. McIlroy, Orlando Streshly, William J. Seagraves, La Fayette Marks, Alvin E. De Forest, Isaac Coulthurst and Wife, Mrs. Frances Corneli- son, Mrs. W. M. Cain, Mrs. Dora Moe, Mrs. Mary A. Bass, John T. Long, Charles Barham, Jacob W. Broadwell, William R.
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Bailey, Harry F. McMurphy, William Brockman, James Doyle, Charles E. Hurlbut, Thomas J. Lomas, Ross Lewers, Thomas J. Mulroney, Leroy N. Arnold, John Baxter, Jeremiah Bond and Wife, Mrs. Eva Partridge, David B. Bankhead, John Todd, John H. Cornell, Willis Brockman, Mrs. G. W. Harrison, Mrs. A. C. Neale, John S. Borrette, G. E. DeForest and Wife, Freeman Lanigar, William D. Minckler, Harry Peyton, P. R. James, Mrs. Ella Forkner, and Mrs. Sarah A. McClelland have given more or less information and assistance.
Alvaro Evans told the most of the history of Long valley, but J. C. Wemple, J. B. Rice, H. H. Dakin, William Reilly, Edwin Ferris, H. N. Skadan, and Mrs. Cordelia A. Wright also helped. The history of Milford was given by J. C. Wemple, aided by J. B. Rice. The earliest settlement of Janesville was told by Smith J. Hill and his Wife, and its later history was given by them and W. M. Cain, H. E. Lomas, H. N. Skadan, H. H. Dakin, and T. H. Epley. The settlement and history of Susanville and the upper part of the valley was told by Fred Hines, William Dow, Mrs A. T. Arnold, T. N. Long, A. L. Har- per, J. F. Hulsman, E. G. Bangham and Wife, Dr. H. S. and V. J. Borrette, Charles Lawson, W. P., S. R., and W. H. Hall, G. W. Harrison, and Isaac N. Jones. The history of the "Tule Confederacy" was given by H. E. Lomas, John H. Summers, John D. Putnam, W. M. Cain, W. S. Brashear, and Charles T. Emerson. The history of Mountain Meadows was told by W. J. Seagraves, T. N. Long, and T. J. Wright. The settlement of Dixie valley was given by Mrs. James P. Eldridge, W. J. Sea- graves, G. W. Harrison, and T. J. Wright. The history of the early settlement of Horse Lake valley, Secret valley, and Made- line Plains was told by John B. McKissick, Albert L. Shinn, T. N. Long, and Charles Cramer. The history of Willow Creek valley was given by Bernhard Neuhaus, Mrs. Jennie Harrison, W. H. Hall, and William Dow. What is told of the settlement of Surprise valley was related by John Price, W. H. McCormick, and W. J. Seagraves. The story of Hayden Hill was told by L. H. Hopkins and Mrs. Mary E. Harris. The history of Big valley was given by Mrs. Mary E. Harris, Richard A. Ricketts, Joseph Wilson, and N. Bieber.
In finding the Lassen Trail the writer has been aided by A. Delano's "Life on the Plains and among the Diggings," William
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Dow, Louis S. Smith, James S. Church, Abel and L. W. Bunnell, Charles F. Hart, Chester and L. W. Boggs, George N. McDow, Waldron B. Philliber, Homer C. Jack, James M. Streshly, V. L. Bonner, J. C. La Plant, T. N. Long, William E. Vinyard, Harry Fitch, Lewis M. Folsom, Walter J. Dakin, N. E. Sutton, Wil- liam Fish, and J. W. Zumwalt. The last named came over the "Trail" in 1849.
No pains have been spared in finding where this road orig- inally ran. Its course has been learned from men who were well acquainted with different parts of it, and the writer believes that the route followed by Lassen in 1848 is given more exactly in this work than in any other place.
In tracing the course of the Noble Road help has been given by the "History of Plumas, Lassen, and Sierra Counties," by an article written by John H. Dreibelbis in "Hutchings Califor- nia Magazine," and by Fred Hines, W. W. Asbury, J. C. La Plant, W. M. Cain, and G. W. Harrison.
In other places in this book will be found the names of people and publications, not given here, that have been of assistance in this work.
The names of those who settled in the county that year have been given in each chapter. These lists are incomplete and per- haps there are mistakes in them, for at this late date it could not be otherwise, but it is a very good record of the permanent set- tlers of the county during those years. The length of residence applies to those whose names are given and to the wives of the married men. In a few cases one or the other of a married couple died in the county and the other one did not. Sometimes a person who is said to have lived in the county all his life moved away for a few years and then returned. There is not room in a book like this to tell about everything of that kind.
ASA MERRILL FAIRFIELD.
Susanville, California, April 20, 1916.
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR
A SA MERRILL FAIRFIELD was born in Douglas, Wor- cester county, Massachusetts, July 30, 1854. His parents, Enos Walling and Sarah Luvan (Parker) Fairfield, were both born in the same town. The Fairfields are of Huguenot descent, the French name being "Beauchamp." Five generations back of A. M. Fairfield, Jonathan Fairfield settled in the village of Pascoag, town of Burrillville, northern Rhode Island. It is supposed that he came to Rhode Island from Fairfield, Con- necticut. A. M. Fairfield's grandmother, Phebe (Churchill) Fairfield, was a descendant of Roger Williams, her mother's maiden name being Williams. Her father, Joseph Churchill, served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, probably in the Rhode Island Line.
Sarah L. (Parker) Fairfield's parents were Captain Abel and Sarah W. (Darling) Parker, both of whom died in this county. She was the third generation from James and Eunice (Emerson) Parker. He was an Englishman who settled in Douglas, Mass. The children of their son Prince and his wife Olive were Joseph, Prince, Abel, Lovel, Zary, and Polly.
A. M. Fairfield's parents were married in 1852, and a year or two later his father, who was a machinist by trade, concluded to leave the shop and go West. In the fall of 1855 the family moved onto a farm near Rockford, Illinois. January 28, 1857, a daughter, who was named Phebe Ellen, was born to them. In the spring of 1857 the family moved to the little town of Jeffer- son in Bremer county, Iowa, twelve miles north of Waterloo. They lived there four years and then moved to Waterloo and lived there four years. Here the father's health failed, and in 1865 they crossed the plains with a team to Honey Lake valley. The mother's family, the Parkers, who also came to Rockford and then to Jefferson, had emigrated to this valley in 1862. The Fairfields lived with them two miles northwest of Milford during the winter of 1865-66, and the children attended the first public school taught in that district. In the summer of 1869 they re- turned to Iowa, going by the newly constructed railroad, and settled in Waverly, Bremer county. The daughter died at this place in August, 1871. The son went to school in Waverly about
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a year and a half and in the spring of 1871 began teaching. He taught three short terms of school in Iowa.
In the fall of 1873 the family came back to Honey Lake valley and in the spring of 1875 settled on a place about three fourths of a mile southeast of Janesville. The mother died there in 1893 and the father died at Janesville in 1904.
A. M. Fairfield began teaching at Janesville in the spring of 1875 and followed that profession the most of the time until the summer of 1899. This teaching was done in Honey Lake valley and in five districts-Janesville, Soldier Bridge, Richmond, Johnstonville, and Lake. During the past six years he has been engaged in collecting the material for this history and in writing it. He has lived in this county, excepting four years, ever since the fall of 1865 and most of that time has virtually known every- body in this valley besides many others living in the county. He was acquainted with the majority of the pioneers, and what he learned from them and his knowledge of the people and the conditions here in early days has been of much use in determining the truth of many things written in the following pages.
A. M. FAIRFIELD.
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD ix
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR . XV
DESCRIPTION OF LASSEN COUNTY . xxi
CHAPTER I. 1848 TO 1856 . 3 The Lassen Trail, The Beckwourth Pass Road, Description of Honey Lake Valley, The Indians, Early History of Honey Lake Valley, Noble's Route, Fredonyer's Pass, First Settlement, Dr. McClay Killed by an Indian.
CHAPTER IL. 1856 . ·
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. . . Settlement, The Drowning of Isadore Meyerwitz and His Wife, Roop House Register, Honey Lake Politics, Western Utah-Early Settlement and Politics, State of the Desert, Utah Territory Or- ganized, Settlement, Squatter Government, First County Organi- zation, Carson County Created.
CHAPTER III. 1857
Settlement, Roop House Register, Western Utah Politics, Second Attempt at Territorial Organization, Honey Lake Politics, Ter- ritorial Meeting in Honey Lake Valley, Indian Troubles, The Potato War, The Pursuit of the Indians Who Stole Vary's Cattle, Elliott and Ferry's Shooting Scrape, Barber Springs, Fight Over the Noble Road, Conditions in Honey Lake at the Close of 1857.
CHAPTER IV. 1858 ·
Settlement, Western Utah Politics, Judge Crane to His Constitu- ents, Result of the Movement of 1857, Honey Lake Politics, Laws of Honey Lake Valley, Indian Troubles, Treaty with the Smoke Creek Pi Utahs Indians, Expedition to Cold Springs in Pursuit of Indians, Captain Weatherlow's Fight with the Indians, Crawford Killed by an Indian, The Trip to Goose Lake Valley in Pursuit of the Indians, Another Indian Hunt, Chapman's Escape from the Mormons, Ferry's Horse Taken by Sheriff J. D. Byers, The Murder of Henry Gordier, The Arrest of Edwards, Lucky Bill, and Others and Their Trial, and the Execution of Edwards and Lucky Bill, The Black Rock Mining Excitement, The Fraser River Mining Excitement, Pursuit of Horse Thieves, The First Flag in the Valley, W. P. Hall's First Visit to Honey Lake Valley, Con- ditions at the Close of 1858.
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CHAPTER V. 1859. . · · Settlement, Western Utah Politics, Movement of 1859, The Meet- ing of the Legislature of Nevada, Informal Meeting of the Legis- lature, Governor Roop's Proclamation, Indian Troubles, Life of Peter Lassen, Death of Lassen, Lassen's Masonic Charter, Trouble with the Pit River Indians, Colonel Lander's Road Expedition, Fast Mail through Honey Lake Valley and Noble's Pass, Death of John Mote, The Killing of Van Hickey, A Common Occurrence in Early Days, Row at a Dance at Richmond, Honey Lake Val- ley's Reputation in 1859, The Winter of 1859-60, Conditions at the Close of 1859.
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CHAPTER VI. 1860
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Settlement, Pioneers Who Are Still Living, Politics in the Provi- sional Territory of Nevada, Honey Lake Politics, Indian Troubles, The Murder of Dexter E. Demming, Cady and Blodgett Killed by the Indians, The Pah-ute War, The Battle of Pyramid Lake, Gen- erally Called "The Ormsby Massacre," The War in Honey Lake and Long Valleys, The Battle of the Truckee, Movements of the Never Sweats, The Murder of Horace Adams, Lander and Weath- erlow's Expedition Against the Pah-utes, Utt's Escape from the Indians, Colonel Lander's Talk with Young Winnemucca, A Meet- ing of the Citizens of Honey Lake Valley, Young Winnemucca 's Talk with the Never Sweats, The Soldier's Bridge, The Shooting of "Big" John Chapman, A Bear Story, Conditions at the Close of 1860.
CHAPTER VII. 1861
239
Settlement, Nevada Territory Politics, Honey Lake Politics, In- dian Troubles, The Murder of James Lawson, White's Horses Stolen, Conditions at the Close of 1861.
CHAPTER VIII. 1862
257
Settlement, Nevada Politics, Honey Lake Politics, Indian Troubles, The Pursuit of the Indians Who Stole the Cattle of William B. Long and Others, Two Indians Killed at the Lathrop and Brad- ley Ranch, Fight with the Indians at the Lathrop Ranch, Hall's Trip to the Humboldt, The Burning of the Mud Flat Station, Horses and Cattle Stolen by the Indians from Susanville, The Murder of James Bailey and William Cook, Two Indians Shot Near Bankhead's, Four Men Attacked by the Indians Near the Shaffer Ranch, An Attack by the Indians on Mud Flat, The Pur- suit of the Indians, A Complaint from Susanville about the Indians, Soldiers Promised to Honey Lake, Fredonyer's Talk Against Time, Lassen's Monument, The First U. S. Mail Routes in the County, Rough Elliott's Fight with Douglas, Cornelison and Rafael Shot, William Fox Shot by Dr. R. F. Moody, Seaman Killed by Hyde, Conditions in 1862.
CHAPTER IX. 1863
305
Settlement, Nevada Territory and Honey Lake Politics, The Sage Brush, or Boundary Line, War, Indian Troubles, One of Old Win- nemucca's Escapes from Susanville, The Winter of 1863-64, The First Death at Milford and at Janesville, An Attempt to Recruit for the Confederate Army, The Knights of the Golden Circle, The Union League, A Cutting Affray at Janesville.
CHAPTER X. 1864.
338
Settlement, Lassen County Politics, The Organization of Lassen County, Proceedings of the Lassen County Board of Supervisors- First Meeting, The First Grand Jury, The First County Court, A Set of Land Pirates in Armor of Brass, Indian Troubles, How the Tule Confederacy Got Its Name, The Killing of Wales and Boody, The Honey Lake Rangers, The Prices of Merchandise in Susanville in 1864, The Never Sweats.
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CHAPTER XI. 1865
Settlement, Lassen County Politics, Indian Troubles, The Murder of Lucius Arcularius, The Massacre at Granite Creek Station, The Murder of Bellew, The Death of Black Rock Tom, Black Rock Tom's Pale Horse, The Death of Pearson, Walker Killed by Brunty, Spencer's Trouble with the Gamblers, The Road from Chico to the Humboldt and Idaho Mines, The Overland and Idaho Routes, Hanging of Charles Barnhart, Biddle Killed by Williams, High Water.
CHAPTER XII. 1866 ·
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· Settlement, Lassen County Politics, Indian Troubles, Fight with the Indians in Guano Valley, Streshly, Mulroney, and Hough's Mules Stolen by the Indians, Cattle Stolen from Honey Lakers at Soldier Meadows, Nevada, Indians Killed at Papoose Valley, "Old Tom" Killed, Edward Mulroney Wounded by the Indians, Drake and Tussler's Fight with the Indians, A Row with the Soldiers in Susanville, "Buckskin Mose," Robert Wisbern Killed, How Robber's Creek Got Its Name.
CHAPTER XIII. 1867
407
Settlement, Lassen County Politics, Indian Troubles, Gaddy Shot at hy an Indian, Old Winnemucca Pays Susanville Another Visit, The Murder of Charles League, Indians Killed in Dry Valley, Summers and Hurlbut's Horses Stolen, The Murder of Mrs. Thompson, The Marks-Myers "Shooting Scrape," The History of the Black Rock Mines.
CHAPTER XIV. 1868 ·
441
Settlement, The Settlement of Big Valley, Indian Troubles in Big Valley, Lassen County Politics, Indian Troubles, John L. Crow's Horses Stolen by the Indians, The Massacre of the Pear- son Family and S. C. Cooper, The Pursuit of the Indians who Killed the Pearson Family and Samuel Cooper-The Susanville Party, The Pursuit of the Indians who Killed the Pearson Family and Samuel Cooper-The Long Valley Party, An Indian Scare in Long Valley, The Exterminators, Indians Hanged for the "Pear- son Massacre, " Honey Lake Very High.
CHAPTER XV. 1869 .
466
Settlement, The Settlement of Dixie Valley and Vicinity, Hayden Hill and Its Mines, The Early History of Bieber, The Susanville Water System, Lassen County Politics, Indian Troubles, The Mur- der of Partridge and Coburn, Three Indians Killed for the Mur- der of Partridge and Coburn, Another Indian Hanged in Susan- ville, The Death of Governor I. N. Roop and a Short Account of His Early Life.
CHAPTER XVI .. IN CONCLUSION 485 Old Winnemucca's Death, The Death of Young Winnemucca, Las- sen County Pioneer Society, The Diversions of Early Days, The Death Roll of the Pioneers, A. W. Wern's Tribute to the Pioneers of Lassen County, California, Conclusion.
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
THE AUTHOR
. Frontispiece
PETER LASSEN .
Facing Page 166
SUSANVILLE IN 1864 . Facing Page 338
ISAAC N. ROOP .
Facing Page 480
MAP OF LASSEN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, AND SURROUNDING COUNTRY
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DESCRIPTION OF LASSEN COUNTY
T HE following brief description is given for the benefit of any one who is not acquainted with this section.
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