History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana : 1845-1889, Part 68

Author: Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918; Victor, Frances Fuller, 1826-1902
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: San Francisco : History Co.
Number of Pages: 880

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About the last of March the Stuarts, Anderson, and a man named Ross also set out for Fort Bridger, the Stuarts having now no property remaining but their horses, twenty in number, and wishing to dis- pose of them. The snow on the divide being too deep for the horses to pass, the party determined upon go- ing to Deer Lodge Valley for the purpose of hunting and curing meat for their journey, and also to ascer- tain the truth of an account given them while on Malade Creek by some mountaineers, of the gold placers said to exist on Benetsee Creek, as they then called Gold Creek, on the American fork of the Hell- gate River. They started about the 1st of April, and reached there without difficulty, finding at the

82 Williamson, while acting as expressman for Mullan in the winter of 1859- 60, from Bitterroot Valley to Camp Floyd, was caught in the heavy snows near the head of Snake River and lost his horses. He made snow-shoes of his saddle rigging, and though snow-blind for several days, made the greater por- tion of the 500 miles on foot, reaching Camp Floyd and returning on horse- baek within 50 days. Mullan's Mil. Road Rept, 21-2.

33 It appears from the narratives of Stuart and others that cattle were somewhat extensively dealt in, even as early as 1858, by the settlers of Mon- tana. The roving traders made a good profit buying poor and exhausted stock from the California and Oregon immigrations, keeping it on the excel- lent pastures of the mountain valleys, and exchanging it with the next year's travel, ono fat animal for two lean ones, or selling beef-cattle wherever a market offered.

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mouth of Gold Creek John M. Jacobs with a herd of cattle, which he owned with John F. Grant, who finally settled near the junction of the two forks of Hellgate River, where in 1860 he had erected two log houses. 34

The Flathead agency at the Jocko River became the home of the first white woman resident in Mon- tana. This pioneer was Mrs Minnie Miller, who with her husband, Henry G. Miller, accompanied Lansdale to the Flathead country in 1855.35 A cattle-owner, Thomas Adams, was also in Hellgate Valley in 1858.36

The want of any provisions excepting meat, and of proper mining tools, combined with the loss of several horses stolen by the Indians, discouraged the young men from attempting mining, and they resolved to con- tinue their journey at once to Fort Bridger, where they arrived about the last of June. The army, however, had removed to Camp Floyd in Utah, and here they followed after a brief rest, and where their horses brought a good price. The Stuarts had by this time acquired a taste for adventure, and determined to re- turn to Green River, where they began operations as traders, buying cattle and horses from the teamsters of Johnston's army and wintering them in the valley of Henry fork of Snake River. For two years the brothers lived in this manner. In the winter of 1860

34 Mullan's Mil. Road Rept, 140. Grant seems to have been the second settler on the Hellgate, McArthur being the first. The Owens in the Bitter- root Valley and the traders above referred to constituted the white popu- lation of Montana in 1858. I have been told of Grant that he was a crafty trader, and when a Blackfoot came to his door he brought forward his Black- foot wife, but when a Flathead appeared he presented a Flathead wife. An- other settler in Hellgate Valley in 1860 was a Frenchman named Brown. Mullan mentions C. C. Irvine and two laborers. The names of Baptiste Champaigne and Gabriel Prudhomme also occur in his report. It would seem that the H. B. Co.'s men liked this particular region, probably on account of the catholic missions as well as the friendly character of the Flathead Indians. In 1861 Higgins and Worden had a trading-house at Hellgate, and Van Dorn another; and a grain farm was opened about this time by Robert Dempsey, between Flint Creek and the American branch of Hellgate River.

35 Mrs Miller was born in Vermont, was educated in the Mormon faith, and resided at North Ogden. At the age of 16 she married a geutile and fled with him to escape the wrath of the saints. Helena Independent, Jan. 29, 1875. $6 Later a resident of Washington city.

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they made their camp in Beaverhead Valley, but the Indians killing their cattle, they moved to Deer Lodge Valley, locating themselves at the mouth of Gold Creek, still having in mind the rumored gold placers.

In July 1859 the war department had one of its engineers-W. F. Reynolds-in the field to explore the Black Hills and the Yellowstone country. Start- ing from Fort Pierre on the Missouri, furnished with all the necessary mining tools had gold been dis- covered, and commissioned to report on the minerals of the country, Reynolds, whose company consisted of roving adventurers, although finding evidences of gold on the affluents of the Yellowstone, discouraged searching for it, oppressed with a fear that he should be deserted, and the arms and property of the ex- pedition carried off, if any too certain evidences of placers or quartz gold became known, all of which he reported to the government.

In the spring of 1861 James Stuart went to Fort Benton to meet the steamer Chippewa, which was expected there, to endeavor to purchase tools and other supplies. But the steamer and all her cargo 37 was burned before arrival. On returning to Gold Creek he found that Blackfoot marauders had stolen all his horses except three that were every night kept tied at the cabin door by his brother. Nothing daunted, however, he hired two men who owned a whip-saw to get out lumber for sluice-boxes at ten cents a foot, and sent to Walla Walla, which since the discovery of the Nez Percé mines had become a thriv- ing town, to procure picks and shovels, Worden & Co. of that place having a pack-train on the Mullan road, then about completed. The tools did not ar-

37 The Chippewa exploded 400 miles below Fort Benton, a deck-hand hav- ing taken a lighted candle into the hold to stcal some alcohol from a cask, when the spirit took fire. There were 280 kegs of powder on board. Both alcohol and powder were intended for the Indian trade. The boat was run ashore, and the passengers ran a mile away. It is soberly stated that a safe weighing 2,000 lbs was hurled three quarters of a mile by the foree of the explosion. The passengers were left to get to Fort Benton as they could. Corr. S. F. Bulletin, Aug. 28, 18G1.

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rive until it was too late to commence mining that year, but a ditch had been dug, and every preparation made for beginning in the following spring. Late in the autumn three other men-W. Graham, A. S. Blake, and P. W. McAdow-arrived at Gold Creek, and prospected in a dry gulch where the village of Pioneer was located, finding good indications, and remaining until spring to work their claims. Ander- son having taken a steamer down the Missouri in 1860, there remained only the Stuarts and the new arrivals, five in all, to make the experiment at mining.

The results at first were not flattering, the claims, excepting one in Pioneer gulch, which paid from six to twenty dollars per day, yielding no more than from one and a half to three dollars. While working for this small amount the Stuarts kept their remaining horses picketed on a sloping piece of grass-land, which was afterward discovered to conceal an enormously rich deposit, which took the name of Bratton Bar in 1866. A man named Hurlbut discovered the placers on Big Prickly Pear Creek about midsummer of this year.

In my account of the Idaho mines I have men- tioned that in 1862, and later, certain immigrants and gold-hunters made the attempt to reach Salmon River mines from Fort Hall, or the South pass, and failed, some being killed by Indians, and others being scat- tered among various localities. Such a party arrived in June 1862 at Deer Lodge.38 They discovered a

38 As an episode in the history of settlement, the following is interesting: In April 1862 a party of six men left Colorado 'for Salmon River, or Oregon, or anywhere west, to escape from Colorado, which we all then thought a sort of Siberia, in which a man was likely to end his days in hopeless exile from his home and friends, because of the poorness of its mines.' At a ferry on the north Platte they fell in with 14 others, and finding Bridger's pass filled with snow, the winter baving been of unnsnal severity, the joint company resolved to proceed across the country to the Sweetwater, and through the South pass. On arriving at Plant's station, on the Sweetwater, it was found in flames, the Indians having just made a raid on the stations along the whole line of the road between the Platte bridge and Green River. Here they found a notice that another party of 18 men had retreated to Platte bridge to wait for reënforeements. They accordingly sent two expressmen to bring up this party, and by the time they were ready to go on, their force was 45 men, well armed and able to fight Indians. Replenishing their supplies at Salt Lake,

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rich placer on a branch of Gold Creek, which they named Pike's Peak gulch. Many others arrived by steamers at Fort Benton, some of whom stopped at Gold Creek.3 Four boats from St Louis reached Fort Benton in 1862.40

In the winter of 1859 a petition had been addressed to the legislature of Washington by the settlers of Bitterroot Valley and the Flathead agency, to have a county set off, to be called Bitterroot county. This petition had seventy-seven names attached, and chiefly those of the Mullan wagon-road company, who could hardly be called settlers, although a few names

they continued their journey, overtaking at Box Elder a small party with 3 wagons loaded with the frame of a ferry-boat for Snake River, above Fort Hall, J. Mix being one of the ferry-owners. From the best information to be obtained at Salt Lake or Snake River, they would find their course to be the old Mormon settlement of Fort Lemhi, and thence 60 miles down the Salmon River to the mines. But on arriving at Lemhi on the 10th of July, they found a company there before them under Samuel McLean, and heard of another, which had arrived still earlier, under Austin, all bound for Salmon River mines, and deceived as to the distance and the practicability of a road, the former being 360 miles, and the latter impassable for wagons. The wagons being abandoned, and the freight packed upon the draught animals, nothing was left for their owners but to walk. Thirty-five men decided to proceed in this manner to the mines, most of McLean's party remaining be- hind. The 3d night after leaving Lemhi the company encamped in Bighole prairie, and on the following morning fell in with a Mr Chatfield and his guide, coming from Fort Owen to Fort Lemhi to settle a difficulty arising from the Lemhi Indians having killed and eaten one of McLean's horses; but learning from the company just from Lemhi that the matter had been ar- ranged, Chatfield turned back; and his conversation induced 22 of the com- pany to resign the idea of Salmon River, and turn their faces toward Deer Lodge, the remainder continuing on the trail to Elk City, from the point where it crossed the Bitterroot River, near its head. Among those who stopped on the Montana side of the Bitterroot Mountains were Henry Thrapp, M. Haskins, William Smith, Allen McPhail, John Graham, Warner, Thomas Neild, Joseph Mumby, James Taylor, J. W. Bozeman, Thomas Woods, J. Caruthers, Andrew Murray, Thomas Donelson, N. Davidson, James Patton, William Thompson, Murphy, and Dutch Pete. Ten of the 22 remained at Fort Owen, taking employment there at the Flathead reserva- tion, of which John Owen was agent. Twelve went to Gold Creek, where they arrived about the last of July. Rocky Mountain Gazette, Feb. 25, 1869.

39 According to Mullan, of 364 immigrants arriving at Fort Benton in July, a large number were destined to Walla Walla, with saw and grist mills, and many to the nincs. Mil. Road Rept, 34-5. This year, also, La Barge, Harkness, & Co. established a trading-house near Fort Benton, and intended to erect mills near the Deer Lodge mines. Among those who ar- rived by steamer were W. B. Dance and S. S. Hauser. Jerome S. Glick, David Gray, George Gray, George Perkins, William Griffith, Jack Oliver, and Joseph Clark stopped at Deer Lodge mines.

" Emilie, June 17th; Shreveport, do .; Key West No. 2, June 20th; Spread Eagle, do.

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of actual pioneers are to be found among them.41 The petition does not appear to have been presented until the session of 1860-1, when two counties, called Shoshone and Missoula, were created out of the region east of the later boundary of Washington, the 117th meridian.

No election was held in Missoula county until the 14th of July, 1862, when James Stuart was elected sheriff. It was not long before he was called to act in his official capacity, and to arrest and bring to trial an aged Frenchman who had stolen some horses and other property. He was tried in a mass-meeting of the miners, who, compassionating his age, his sorrow, and poverty, made up a purse for him, and sent him out of the county to trouble them no more. The next horse-thieves fared worse. They were three men, named William Arnett, C. W. Spillman, and B. F. Jernagin, and arrived on American fork of Hellgate River from the west, about the middle of August, having with them half a dozen good American horses. When they had been there a few days, the owners of the horses also arrived, and entering the settlement at the mouth of Gold Creek, which was now begin- ning to be called by the urban appellation of Ameri- can Fork, and where Worden & Co. had opened a store, under the cover of night, requested the aid of the sheriff aud miners in capturing the trio. Arnett and

41 The list is as follows: W. W. Johnson, J. A. Mullan, G. C. Taliaferro, J. Sohon, C. R. Howard, James S. Towuseud, Theodore Kolecki, W. W. De Lacy, George H. Smith, Cyrus Spengler, A. J. Horton, William Lowery, A. E. D'Course, J. Cashman, William Ping, Charles J. Clark, Daniel F. Smith, Robert P. Booth, David Carroll, James Conlan, Isaac H. Rocap, Frederick Sheridan, W. L. Wheelock, John C. Davis, Thomas Hudson, W. Burch, D. Hays, John Carr, George Ruddock, Patrick Graham, Canhope Larard, John Larard, Joseph Tracy, William O'Neil, Patrick Mihan, James N. Heron, Edward Scully, M. Mclaughlin, William Craig, William Hickman, J. C. Sawyer, A. J. Batchelder, A. L. Riddle, James McMahon, William Galigher, L. Neis, Zih. Teberlare, George Young, John Owens, W. D. Perkins, Richard Smith, Loars P. Williams, William Henry, William Proyery, C. E. Juine, D. M. Engely, J. B. Rabin, Thomas W. Harris, Henri M. Clarke, S. H. Martin, Jefferson Morse, James Gotier, Angus MacCloud, John De Placies, James Toland, P. Macdonald, E. Williamson, John Silverthorne, John M. Jacobs, John Pearsalt, Louis Claimont, Louis G. Maison, Narcisse Mesher, A. Gird, Joseph Lompeny, Richard Grant, Michael Ogden. Wash. Jour. House, 1860-1, 35-6.

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Jernagin were found engaged in a monte game in a drinking-saloon, the former with a pistol on his knees, ready for emergencies. When ordered to throw up his hands, Arnett seized his pistol instead, and one of the pursuers shot him dead, as he stood up with the weapon in one hand and the cards in the other. So tight was his dying clutch upon the latter, that they could not be removed, and were buried with him. Jernagin surrendered, and on trial was acquitted and sent out of the country. Spillman, who was arrested in Worden's store, and who was a finely built man of twenty-five years, made no defence, and when sen- teneed to be hanged, preferred no request except to be allowed to write to his father. He met his death firmly, being hanged August 26, 1862, the first of a long list of criminals who expiated their lawlessness in the same manner, and on whom the vigilants of Montana executed justice without any legal circumlo- cution. Soon after this affair, news of new placers on Willard (called on the maps Grasshopper) Creek, in the Beaverhead Valley, drew away the miners from Gold Creek, the Stuarts among the rest; and as the affairs of the new mining settlements deserve a chap- ter to themselves, I will proceed to recount them.

CHAPTER II.

TOWN-BUILDING AND SOCIETY.

1862-1864.

EXPLORING EXPEDITIONS-PIONEERS OF MONTANA-PROSPECTING PARTIES -ORGANIZATION OF DISTRICTS-STUART AND BOZEMAN-DE LACY- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF SETTLERS-FREIGHTS AND FREIGHT TRAINS -EARLY SOCIETY IN THE MINES-ROAD-AGENTS AND VIGILANCE COM- MITTEES-LEGALLY ORGANIZED BANDITTI-THE SHERIFF HIGHWAYMAN AND HIS DEPUTIES-A TYPICAL TRIAL-WHOLESALE ASSASSINATION AND RETRIBUTION.

AMONG those detained in Beaverhead Valley be- cause wagons could not go through from Lemhi to Salmon River was a party of which John White and John McGavin were members. This company, about the 1st of August, 1862, discovered placers on Willard or Grasshopper Creek, where Bannack City was built in consequence, which yielded from five to fifteen dol- lars a day to the hand. White, who is usually ac- credited with the discovery, having done so much for his fame, has left us no other knowledge of him or his antecedents,1 save that he was murdered in De- cember 1863.2

1 I learned of McGavin from A. K. Stanton of Gallatin City, another of the immigrants of 1862, who mined first on Bighole River. Stanton was born in Pa, Dec. 1832. Was the son of a farmer, and learned the joiner's trade. In 1856 he removed to Minnesota, and like many of the inhabitants of that state was much impressed with the fame of the Idaho mines. He started for Salmon River with a train of which James Reed was captain. He tried min- ing at Bannack, but not realizing his hopes, resolved to take some land in the Gallatin Valley and turn farmer and stock-raiser. He secured 440 acres of land, and presently had 80 horned cattle, 150 horses, and 17,000 sheep. In 1SS2 he married Jeanette Evenen.

" White and Rodolph Dorsett were murdered at the milk rancho on the road from Virginia City to Helena by Charles Kelly. Dinsdale's Montana l'igilantes. There seems to be no good reason for using the Spanish word vigi- lantes instead of its English equivalent 'vigilants ' in these northern countries. .

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Almost at the same time Joseph K. Slack, born in Vermont in 1836, and who had been seeking his for- tune in California and Idaho since 1858, discovered placers on the head of Bighole River that yielded fifty-seven dollars a day to the man.8 Also about the same time John W. Powell discovered mines on North Bowlder Creek, in what was later Jefferson county. These repeated discoveries occasioned much excite- ment, and the Deer Lodge mines were abandoned for those east of the Rocky range.

In August a train arrived from Minnesota, under James Reed, like the others, in quest of Salmon River, but willingly tarrying in the Beaverhead Val- ley ;* and several weeks later a larger train under James L. Fisk, which left Minnesota in July, by a route north of the Missouri, and was convoyed over the plains by a government escort. They were destined to Washington, but the greater part of the company resolved to put their fortunes to the test in the Rocky Mountains.5

3 Slack settled at or near Helena, and raised stock.

4 In this train came John Potter, the Hoyts, Wooster Wyman, Charles Wyman, Still, Smith, Mark D. Leadbetter, French and son, and W. F. Bartlett. S. H. D., in Helena Rocky Mountain Gazette, Feb. 25, 1869.

5 The company consisted of 110 men, and an unknown number of women and children. Their names, so far as known, were W. S. Arnold, Mrs Arnold, Hosca Arnold, Smith Ball, Mrs Ball, Dr Biddle, Mrs Biddle, B. B. Burchett, Mrs Burchett, Miss Sallie Burchett, Miss Mary Burchett, Mrs Bennett, Henry Buckner, Mrs Buckner, Mrs Brown, Thomas Caldwell, Mrs Caldwell, J. M. Castner, Mrs Castner, Joseph Carrol, Mrs Carrol, J. B. Caven, Mrs Caven, Mr Dalton and 2 sons, Mrs Dalton, Miss Desdemonia Dalton, Miss Matilda Dalton, Mrs L. W. Davenport, Miss Mary Donnelly, Mrs Catherine Durgan, Mrs Hewins, James Harby, Mrs Harby, G. Kuster, Mrs Kuster, Frank Le Graw, Mrs Le Graw, Mr Mcredith, Mrs Meredith, Mrs Susan Peabody, Frank Ray, Mrs Ray, Dr Ray, Ned Ray, Mr and Mrs Short, Mr and Mrs Tilly, H. T. Tyler, Mrs Tyler, Wilson Waddams, Mrs Waddams, Miss Sarah Waddams, Henry Zoller, Mrs Zoller, Miss Emma Zoller, N. P. Lang- ford, Charles St Clair. Besides the above and others already named, there were at Bannack City and that vicinity in the winter of 1862-3, John Anlt, Harry Arnett and brother, James M. Arnoux, William Babbett, Ephraim Bostwick (killed by Crows on Bighorn River IS63), George S. Bachclder, William H. Bell (died at Bannack Nov. 12, 1862, the first death in that camp), Henry A. Bell, Samuel W. Bachelder, Joseph Bender, David A. Bentley, William Buchanan, Stewart Buchanan, William Beeken, Charles Benson, John Bertwhistle, R. M. Biggs, Patrick Bray, Con. Bray, George Brown, Joseph A. Brownc, John Bothwell, John Burnett (killed by Indians on Salmon River, March 1863), George Beatty, Mr Buttica, Henry B. Bryan, Felix Burton, Richard Tinker Brown, Joseph Brown (killed by Indians on Salmon River, March 1863), Ed. Brown, William Buffington, N. W. Burris (killed by

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About four hundred persons wintered on Grass- hopper Creek, and called the camp Bannack City after

Indians at the mouth of Maria River 1865), William Butz, Henry R. Brooks, Peter Butler, Mr. Boyd, William Cook, John Campbell, John Carrico, Joseph Carrigan (killed by Indians on Salmon River 1863), J. M. Castner, Albert G. Clarke, Herman Clarke, George Colburn, Mr. Cole, the two doctors Cox, Henry Crawford, Robert Homer Crawford, George M. Carhart (killed by road- agents in 1863), William Carr, Peter Cardwell, Josiah Chandler, Jesse Crooks, Thomas H. Clark, William Cole, George Copley (killed in attempting to arrest a road-agent 1864), H. Conover, Thomas W. Cover, E. Crawford, J. W. Crow, F. E. Curtis, Louis Cossette (killed by road-agent Reeves and others 1863), William Clancy, George Cobb, George Cobb, Jr, Jac. Cleveland (killed by road-agent Plummer December 1862), Alexander Carter, Theodore Carrick, Clemens, Cooper, Nathaniel J. Davis, William H. Deriar, J. Donnelly, Elijah M. Dunphy, Gilbert Durant, Tom Duffey, Dobbins, John Durgan, L. W. Davenport, Charles M. Davis, George Dewees, Edwin D. Dukes, Frank Dun- bar, James Dyke, Richard Duryea, Baptiste Dorrica, George Edwards (mur- dered by road-agents Jan. 1863), Jason W. Eddings, J. F. Emory, Robert Ells, John Ellis, William H. Emerick, Charles Entwhistle, John Falls, James Fergus, James S. Ferster, Thomas Foster, David E. Folsom, Charles Falen, William Faulds, Watson Forst, Thomas Fallon (killed by Indians on Salmon River March 1863), Fox (who shot Arnett in arresting him in July 1862, at Gold Creek), W. L. Farlin, O. D. Farlin, William Fenton, Dr Fossett, Patrick Florida, J. M. Galloway, H. T. Geey (killed by Crows on Bighorn River May 1863), John G. Gill, William Goodrich, Jack Gunn, James Gourley, Ard God- frey, Philip Gardner (called the Man Eater), James Gemmell, Barney Gilson, W. C. Gillette, J. S. Glick, William Graves (hanged by vigilants at Fort Owen 1864), Daniel Gould, Charles Guy (murdered on Rock Creek by persons unknown), Lon Gillem, Gwin (killed by Sioux while descending the Missouri in 1863), James Harby, Amos W. Hall, Ed. Hibbard, Holman, William T. Hamilton (known as Wild Cat Bill), John J. Hall, S. T. Hauser, Harry Heusted, George Hillerman (nicknamed the Great American Piebiter), Peter Horan, Hector Horton, Frank and Dr Hoyt, Barney Hughes, Edward House, Freeman House, George Hurd, Rolla Hurd, George Hacker, Heister, Richard M. Harris, Robert Holladay, Daniel H. Hunkins, William Hunter (hanged by vigilants near Gallatin City Feb. 1864), Hawley, Henry C. Harrison, James Hauxhurst, John Higgins, Charles Hammond, David A. Hopkins, John Innes, J. F. Irwin, George Ives (hanged by vigilants near Nevada City Dec. 1863), John M. Jacobs, David Jones, Leander Johnson, Augustus Jordan, William Kiplinger, Conrad Kohrs, John Knowles, James King, William Kinney, John Kane, Dr A. Ketchum, Lawrence Keeley (mur- dered by Peter Horan in 1863), R. C. Knox, E. R. King, Thomas Kirkpatrick, John Kirtz (killed by the caving of the earth in Alder gulch in 1864), G. Kuster, Joshua Laffin, Henry Lansing, Lear, E. P. Lewis, E. D. Leavitt, Philip Lovell, B. Franklin Lowe, Jason Luce (shot in Salt Lake for the murder of Bill Button in 1863), Hays Lyon (hanged at Virginia City by vigilants, Jan. 1864), Samuel Livingston, M. H. Lott, Wilford Luce, Andrew Luzi, Henry Lynch, Frank M. Madison, H. M. Mandeville, Capt. O. H. Maxwell, Daniel McFadden, John S. Mendenhall, Saml Mendenhall, L. C. Miller, H. H. Mood, Moore, William Moore (a road-agent), H. F. Morrell, Gabriel Morris, John Murphy, Elijah Markham, Perry McAdow, John Mannheim, Charles Murphy, George Manning, Richard McCafferty, George McIntyre, Robt Mencfee, John Merry, William Mitchell (killed by Indians on Salmon River March 1863), David Morgan, Harry Moore, James H. Morley, Julius Morley, Thomas Metcalf, Thomas McNamara, Mackey, James Marsden, Andrew Murray, Alfred L. Nichols, Lemuel Nuckolls, A. J. Oliver, W. H. Orcutt, Thomas O'Conner, Frank Parish (hanged by vigilants in Virginia City Jan. 1864), A. Prairie, Thomas D. Pitt, C. W. Place, Putnam, E. Porter, George

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History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana : 1845-1889, Part 68

Author: Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918; Victor, Frances Fuller, 1826-1902 Publication date: 1890 Publisher: San Francisco : History Co. Number of Pages: 880

Author: Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918; Victor, Frances Fuller, 1826-1902
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: San Francisco : History Co.
Number of Pages: 880