Bear River Massacre
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The Bear River Massacre was a United States military attack that killed an estimated 250 to 493 children, women, and men at a Shoshone winter encampment on January 29, 1863. Some sources describe it a
Monument at the site
A Shoshone encampment in the Wind River Range of Wyoming, photographed by W.H. Jackson, 1870
General Patrick Edward Connor after his promotion
The location where the massacre took place, viewed from the north
Shoshone
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The Shoshone or Shoshoni, also known by the endonym Newe, are an Indigenous people of the United States with four large cultural/linguistic divisions:
Bear River Massacre
…The Bear River Massacre was a United States military attack that killed an estimated 250 to 493 children, women, and men at a Shoshone winter encampment on January 29, 1863. Some sources describe it as the largest mass murder of Native Americans by the US military and the largest single…
Rabbit-Tail or Moragootch (information varies).
Reported picture of Mike Daggett February 26, 1911
Sheriff Charles Ferrel with the surviving members of Mike Daggett's family (Daggett's daughter Heney (Louise, 17), and two of his grandchildren, Cleveland (Mosho, 8), and Hattie (Harriet Mosho, 4))