The Sheepeater campaign, Idaho-1879
By: by Col. W.C. Brown.
Publisher: Syms-York company
Published: 1926
Place of publication: [Boise, Id
Language: eng
Number of pages: 29
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Idaho; Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895
Description: This account gives detailed information on the campaign and the Indians, and is especially valuable for the description of exploration of the Upper Salmon River Country. It includes two maps, one of which is "The First Map Ever Made of the Country Between Big Creek and Salmon River, Idaho Territory."
Notes: Cover title.
"Reprinted from the tenth Biennial report, Idaho historical society, 1926."
"The Sheepeaters were a small band of renegade Bannocks, Shoshones, and Weisers, who derived their name from the fact that they subsisted largely on mountain sheep ... Their existence had been known since the early 'sixties ..." --p. [5]