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Journal Article

English

Schindler, Harold

The Bear River Massacre : New Historical Evidence

Utah Historical Quarterly

Fall 1999

67

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Utah Historical Society

1999

300-308

Controversy has dogged the Bear River Massacre from the first. The event in question occurred when, on January 29, 1863, volunteer soldiers under Col. Patrick Edward Connor attacked a Shoshoni camp on the Bear River, killing nearly three hundred men, women, and children. The bloody encounter culminated years of increasing tension between whites and the Shoshonis, who, faced with dwindling lands and food sources, had resorted to theft in order to survive. By the time of the battle, confrontations between the once-friendly Indians and the settlers and emigrants were common. [From the text]

http://digitallibrary.utah.gov/awweb/awarchive?type=file&item=34913

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