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Chico, California:: Stansbury Publishing, 2017.. 1st Printing, Limited.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: red cloth with gilt; a Fine book, with a Fine dust jacket.. 8vo (9.5 inches tall) . Notes, index. Description: Includes a few black and white illustrations. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Northern California's Butte County mining camps and foothill farms were an active front in the California Indian wars. Using centuries old tribal tactics, Butte Creeks, the Mountain Maidu tribelets' warriors, resisted settlers' seizures of their territories. Making a strategic shift, in 1887, they acquired bases in the neighboring Yahi's Deer Creek Canyon. They merged with renegades and Yahi fighters, called Mill Creeks, whose raids had terrified Maidu and Tehama County farmers through the mid-1850s. Meanwhile, quarrels between miners and farmers and with John Bidwell continued as Civil War loyalties undermined unity against the Indian raiders, now out of Deer Creek. In 1863, Bidwell urged the Interior…
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California Standoff: Miners, Indians and Farmers at War, 1850-1860 Hardcover -
by Michele Shover
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- Title California Standoff: Miners, Indians and Farmers at War, 1850-1860
- Author Michele Shover
- Binding Hardcover
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stansbury Publishing
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781935807155 / 1935807153
- Library of Congress subjects Indians of North America - California - Wars, Maidu Indians - Wars
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015046975
- Dewey Decimal Code 979.432
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California Standoff: Miners, Indians and Farmers at War, 1850-1865.
by Shover, Michele.
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- 9781935807155 / 1935807153
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