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Well, the ruins of Churchill. There's a river there. google if interested.
Churchill is an old Cavalry Fort. It was the western desert fort when the Pyramid Lake massacre went down. There were a couple tribes that were killing settlers and raiding the Washoe Indians who lived in Washoe Valley north of Carson City.
Raiding parties coming from the north were killing families on their way to California as the Washoe tribe had nothing left to take. They attacked Williams Station, after taking everything they could carry the put everyone left alive into the Station and burned it with the people in it.
Soldiers form the fort were sent to arrest someone, crazy because the Indians outnumbered them and had better weapons, the cavalry was still using the old Springfield trapdoor single shot, while the Indians had repeating rifles and there were several bands and tribes.
The Indians killed almost all, and would have killed all if it dark hadn't allowed a few to slip away. Most of the Cavalry from Fort Churchill died there at Pyramid Lake and their bodies were chopped up. Major
Ormsby was killed there. There's a Casino in Carson City~The Ormsby House, I wondered who it was named for.
Later a story was written where someone at Williams Station had kidnapped a couple Paiute girls and that settlers had messed up their hunting grounds. If you see the lay of the land here it becomes clear that the distance to Pyramid is just too far, or it was then. Williams Station is at Lake Lohontan many miles from there. You have to allow a couple hours to drive up there. Not much chance for girls to be from that area to be near Williams Station without a car and miners would not be hunting rabbits where they mined , just too far then. Add to that, one of the things they, the Paiutes, were taking from the Washoe was their children.
Write this down~I'm gona ask questions later.
The fort has been going down for many years, once it was decommissioned the roofing timbers were carted away. There are many building, you can see one off in the distance through the door of this one.
But the river is doing well.
Churchill is an old Cavalry Fort. It was the western desert fort when the Pyramid Lake massacre went down. There were a couple tribes that were killing settlers and raiding the Washoe Indians who lived in Washoe Valley north of Carson City.
Raiding parties coming from the north were killing families on their way to California as the Washoe tribe had nothing left to take. They attacked Williams Station, after taking everything they could carry the put everyone left alive into the Station and burned it with the people in it.
Soldiers form the fort were sent to arrest someone, crazy because the Indians outnumbered them and had better weapons, the cavalry was still using the old Springfield trapdoor single shot, while the Indians had repeating rifles and there were several bands and tribes.
The Indians killed almost all, and would have killed all if it dark hadn't allowed a few to slip away. Most of the Cavalry from Fort Churchill died there at Pyramid Lake and their bodies were chopped up. Major
Ormsby was killed there. There's a Casino in Carson City~The Ormsby House, I wondered who it was named for.
Later a story was written where someone at Williams Station had kidnapped a couple Paiute girls and that settlers had messed up their hunting grounds. If you see the lay of the land here it becomes clear that the distance to Pyramid is just too far, or it was then. Williams Station is at Lake Lohontan many miles from there. You have to allow a couple hours to drive up there. Not much chance for girls to be from that area to be near Williams Station without a car and miners would not be hunting rabbits where they mined , just too far then. Add to that, one of the things they, the Paiutes, were taking from the Washoe was their children.
Write this down~I'm gona ask questions later.
The fort has been going down for many years, once it was decommissioned the roofing timbers were carted away. There are many building, you can see one off in the distance through the door of this one.
But the river is doing well.
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