War Drums in the Owens Valley

Paiutes had hunted and farmed in the mostly peaceful California valley for centuries before white settlers crowded in with their voracious cattle. Conflict was inevitable. In late March 1862 a 60-man force of volunteers under a settler named Mayfield, reportedly a former Army colonel, moved cautiously up the Owens Valley. Paiutes had been raiding local …

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