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Bear River Massacre
Bear River · Idaho
Estimated casualties
250 – 490estimated dead
Estimates of Shoshone dead range from about 250 to nearly 500, including many women and children; among the deadliest single massacres of Native Americans in U.S. history.
SOURCEWikipedia: Bear River Massacre
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.
Belligerents2
- United States
- Northwestern Shoshone
ON THE MAPUnited States (1860)
Conflict graph
Sources
- Wikipedia: Bear River Massacre
- Madsen, The Shoshoni Frontier and the Bear River Massacre
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cite as: Bear River Massacre (1863). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/bear-river-massacre · Sources & methodology