Killing for land in early California
Subtitle: Native American blood at Round Valley, 1856-1863
By: Frank H. Baumgardner, III.
Publisher: Algora Pub.; Algora Pub
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Land tenure -- California -- Round Valley.; Indians of North America -- Wars -- California -- Round Valley.; Indians of North America -- California -- Round Valley -- Government relations.; Frontier and pioneer life -- California -- Round Valley.; United States -- Politics and government.; United States -- Race relations.
Description: "This is a history of the clash between the White settlers and the Native Americans in what is now an affluent county in California. The frontier wars gave land and gold to Whites and reservations to the Native Americans. Eyewitness accounts and extensive research show the conflicting roles played by the Army, State Legislature and the US Congress"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Yukis meet White men; title: The establishment of Nome Cult Farm; title: The army, the settlers, and the Office of Indian Affairs; title: In 1857-1858 : conflicting views of a complicated situation; title: General Kibbe's "expedition" in Trinity County, Hoopa Valley, and on the Klamath River, 1858-59, or, The War with the Win-toons; title: Vengeance and taking the land : Eden and round valleys, 1859-1860; title: The woes of the settlers and ranchers; title: The employees' depositions; title: Depositions of the soldiers; title: Journalism of the period and Round Valley in the 1860s; title: The rejected majority report; title: Arrant fabrications : the 1860 congressional debate; title: Native Americans retaliate : Horse Canyon, a Yuki revolt, Little Stony Creek, and the army's return, September 1861-April 1863; title: Tension mounts between Native Americans and settlers; title: Company F occupies Round Valley, martial law in the valley, December 1862-spring 1863; title: Native Americans encounter further injustice, 1863-1864; title: Conclusion: Justifiable conquest?