Bear River Massacre

1863 · United States vs Northwestern Shoshone

On 29 January 1863, California Volunteers under Colonel Patrick Connor attacked a winter encampment of the Northwestern Shoshone on the Bear River in present-day Idaho, killing an estimated 250-490 people, mostly women and children, in one of the deadliest massacres of Native Americans in U.S. history.

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