California standoff
Subtitle: miners, Indians and farmers at war, 1850-1860
By: Michele Shover
Publisher: Stansbury Publishing
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Chico, California
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781935807179; 9781935807155
Subjects: Relations with Indians; Frontier and pioneer life; Indians of North America; Maidu Indians; Mill Creek Indians; Wars; History
Description: "In Northern California's 'Indian Wars,' victory eluded settlers and Indians between 1850 and 1860 for reasons Standoff explores that are unique to that area"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the people and places; title: "Big times" at Bidwell's Rancho: the Indian Treaties of 1851-1852; title: Defeat of the Treaty; title: Bidwell under siege and in pursuit; title: The Butte Creeks become Mill Creeks; title: The settlers avenge the new Mill Creeks; title: Kibbe's 1859 Pit River expedition, the Butte Creek flank; title: Child killings in Civil War politics; title: Harassing "Rebs," the Indian soldiers' pastime; title: New child killings imperil Indians at Rancho Chico; title: John Bidwell outfoxes soldiers, bureaucrats and settlers; title: The death trail; title: Retribution on Mill Creek; title: Bibliography; title: Acknowledgments; title: Appendices; title: A. Treaty at Rio Chico, 1851; title: B. Letter from John Bidwell to Joseph McCorkle; title: A note on confusion in accounts; title: Indian vulnerability and resistance to malaria; title: E. The Kroeber version; title: F. Iowa's Sutherland boys in Butte County gold mines, town jobs and Indian pursuits.