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The Bear River Massacre was an attack by around 200 US soldiers that killed an estimated 250 to 400 children, women, and men at a Shoshone winter encampment on January 29, 1863. [ b ] Some sources describe it as the largest mass murder of Native Americans by the US military.
Bear River Massacre Site, near Preston, Idaho, is the site of the Bear River Massacre, in which a village of Shoshone Native Americans were attacked by the California Volunteers on January 29, 1863. Estimates of Shoshone casualties are as high as 384. [4] It is also known as Bear River Battleground or Massacre at Boa Ogoi.
Bear Hunter (died January 29, 1863), "also known as Wirasuap (bear spirit)" [1] was a Shoshone chief of the Great Basin in the 1860s. On January 29, 1863, he and his Shoshone band (Northwestern Band) were attacked by the US Army in what is known as the Bear River Massacre .
Hundreds of Civil War relics were unearthed during the cleanup of a South Carolina river where Union troops dumped Confederate military equipment to deliver a demoralizing blow for rebel forces in ...
The FBI’s highly unusual search for buried Civil War-era treasure more than five years ago set in motion a dispute over what, if anything, the agency unearthed and an ongoing legal battle over ...
The 1976 film The Outlaw Josey Wales depicts the activities of bushwhackers during and after the American Civil War. Bushwhackers appear in the side-stories of the 2004 HBO TV series Deadwood, set in South Dakota. The 2018 video game Red Dead Redemption 2 features a gang known as the Lemoyne Raiders, who operate as neo-Confederate bushwhackers.
A Wisconsin dad says he's lucky to be alive after he was attacked by a black bear while hunting on Sept. 6. Ryan Beierman, 43, and his 12-year-old son, Owen, recounted their brush with death to ...
During the Civil War, nearby Kansas City (known then as the Town of Kansas) served as headquarters for the Federal "District of the Border" and was garrisoned by a sizable contingent of Union troops. While its own municipal star was beginning to fade in favor of its northern neighbor, Westport was still of some importance in the region.