CHAPTER 7: LAST DAYS OF THE GOOD GIRLS
Mary Austin wrote…howl and howl.
Austin, Mary Hunter. The Land of Little Rain. Modern Library, 2003, p.71
Years before, a Paiute man walked…backstop of the baseball field…
Sahagun, Louis. “Slaying Bridges Racial Divide: Whites, Indians are forced to come together to confront troubling questions.” Los Angeles Times. 26 Feb., 2005.
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/feb/26/local/me-bishop26
…began killing livestock to survive.
Michael, William H. "At the plow and in the harvest field": Indian conflict and accommodation in the Owens Valley, 1860-1880,” masters thesis, Liberal Studies, University of Oklahoma, 1993
A rancher shot a Paiute as he chased away a cow…Fourteen men gathered.
Chalfant, Willie Arthur. The Story of Inyo: Revised Addition . W.A. Chalfant, 1933, p. 99
“We the undersigned…Given under our hands at San Francis Ranch this 31st day of January, A.D. 1862.”
“Oration. Delivered at Lone Pine, July 4th, 1876, by Jas. E. Parker.” The Inyo Independent, 8 July, 1876
A few weeks later…that they could not die.
Chalfant, Willie Arthur. The Story of Inyo: Revised Addition . W.A. Chalfant, 1933, p. 100-101
By spring an army lieutenant…“one hundred or more good guns.”
From the report of Lieutenant Colonel George S. Evans, Second California Cavalry, Camp Latham, April 29, 1862, accessed via the following source:
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Series 1, Vol. 50, Part 1, THA New Media, LLC, p. 49
…melted the lead into bullets…
Chalfant, Willie Arthur. The Story of Inyo: Revised Addition . W.A. Chalfant, 1933, p. 134
…all of the whites in Owens Valley deserved to die.
ibid. p. 107
“They will fight to the last extremity in the defense of their homes.”
From a letter from Warren Wasson, Indian Agent and U.S. Marshall, to Lieutenant Noble (in Owens Valley), July 1862. Accessed via the following source:
Davis, Sam P. The History of Nevada. Vol. 1, The Elms Publishing Co., 1913, p. 79
Early in the spring of 1862…they kept a constant watch.
Chalfant, Willie Arthur. The Story of Inyo: Revised Addition . W.A. Chalfant, 1933, p. 103
How many people, specific weapons, and what they used to fortify the fort, comes from a letter Chalfant cites, written by Sheriff Scott of Mono County.
Additional details from:
The report of Lieutenant Colonel George S. Evans, Second California Cavalry, Camp Latham, April 29, 1862, accessed via the following source:
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Series 1, Vol. 50, Part 1, THA New Media, LLC, p. 46
Also:
MacGrath, Roger D. Gunfighters, Highwaymen & Vigilantes: Violence on the Frontier. Univ. of California Press, 1987, p. 23
MacGrath cites Daily Evening Post, 22 November 1879, and Inyo Register, 22 January 1914. The latter is probably Chalfant’s account.
A rancher wrote in a letter that…”…leave the valley to its rightful owners.”
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Series 1, Vol. 50, Part 1, THA New Media, LLC, pp. 935-936
…according to white accounts, found chaos and unburied bodies.
The report of Lieutenant Colonel George S. Evans, Second California Cavalry, Camp Latham, April 29, 1862, accessed via the following source:
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Series 1, Vol. 50, Part 1, THA New Media, LLC, p. 46
…some say the settlers fell in gratitude to their knees.
Cragen, Dorothy Clora. The Boys in the Sky-Blue Pants: the Men and Events at Camp Independence and Forts of Eastern California, Nevada, and Utah, 1862-1877. Pioneer Pub. Co., 1975, p. 6
On the Fourth of July 1862, 157 soldiers rode into Owens Valley…
Chalfant, Willie Arthur. The Story of Inyo: Revised Addition . W.A. Chalfant, 1933, p. 123
…in the belted jackets and blue canvas pants issued to the Second Cavalry California Volunteers.
Cragen, Dorothy Clora. The Boys in the Sky-Blue Pants: the Men and Events at Camp Independence and Forts of Eastern California, Nevada, and Utah, 1862-1877. Pioneer Pub. Co., 1975
The men erected a fifty-foot flagpole…They called the place Camp Independence.”
Chalfant, Willie Arthur. The Story of Inyo: Revised Addition . W.A. Chalfant, 1933, p. 123
Not long before…the first Paiute the California Volunteers encountered in the place called Payahuunadu.
Chalfant, Willie Arthur. The Story of Inyo: Revised Addition . W.A. Chalfant, 1933, p. 123