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...Carleton established a base camp (Camp Cady) on the Mojave River on April 19, 1860.
His men killed two Indians about 12 miles southwest of the camp on the same day, took the
bodies to Bitter Springs, and hung them on a gallows as a warning to other Indians. Carleton ordered Lieutenant Milton T. Carr to lead a ten-day scout to Soda Springs and the Providence Mountains, and to build a redoubt at Soda Springs. On May 2, while scouting in the area of the Kelso Dunes, possibly in Devil's Playground Wash, Carr crossed an Indian trail. He and his dragoons followed the trail south until they came upon seven Indians near the foot of what is now called Old Dad Mountain. The dragoons killed three Indians, severely wounded one, and captured a squaw. They cut off the heads of the three dead Indians, placed them in a sack, carried them to Bitter Springs, and displayed the heads with the bodies of the two Indians killed earlier. ...The campaign against the Pah-Ute accomplished little. The Indians continued attacking small parties or lone travelers, and for several years many whites shot the Indians on sight. By 1870, the Pah-Utes' numbers were so reduced that they were no longer a threat. (Bruce A. Stein and Sheldon F. Warrick, "Granite Mountains Resource Survey", 1979.) |
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Reader: Boulder Sitting
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...Pinenut time was a happy time for the Indian people. They loved the cool, crisp air of
the hills after the shadeless desert. They emptied their willow jugs of the tepid,
alkaline water of the marshes and refilled them from mountain springs, careful lest they
break the waving banners of algae in the flowing water. "When moss is growing in water
like long hair, you don't take it out," the Indians believed. "You leave it there. If you
don't leave it there, the water will dry up because it is 'her' hair." Cool water was considered to be a cure for all ailments, so they prayed to it, asking for good health and strength. The women built shelters of sage and pine boughs while the men hunted the mountain meadows for sagehens and squirrels, and the rocky slides for marmots. Children and old ones collected wood for the evening fires that dotted the range like beacons of friendship. (Margaret M. Wheat, "Survival Arts of the Primitive Paiutes", 1967.) |
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