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Research material primarily for the history of Fort Bidwell (Modoc Co.) and Fort Crook (Shasta Co.) Calif., 1934-1935.
BANC MSS C-R 39LOCAL
Collection Overview

Title:

Research material primarily for the history of Fort Bidwell (Modoc Co.) and Fort Crook (Shasta Co.) Calif., 1934-1935

Creator/Contributor:

Post, Rita Johns., creator

Creator/Contributor:

Brown, W. C. (William Carey), 1854-1939

Creator/Contributor:

Russell, Don, 1899-1986

Creator/Contributor:

United States, Adjutant-General's Office.

Abstract:

Correspondence with various U.S. Army officers (including General W.C. Brown), Adjutant General's Office and various offices of the War Dept.; notes and drafts (including "Battle of Infernal Caverns"); photographs of the forts.
With these: service records of Generals George Crook and W.C. Brown; publication notice for Don Russell's 103 Fights and Skirmishes: biography of General R.F. Bernard; newspaper clippings concerning the Modoc War and, also, Sierra City; biographical notes on her father, William Johns.

Date:

1934 (issued)

Subject:

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Indians of North America -- Wars -- California
Modoc War, 1872-1873
Guerre des Modocs, 1872-1873
Indians of North America -- Wars
Fort Bidwell (Calif.)
Fort Crook (Calif.)
Sierra City (Calif.)
California
California -- Fort Bidwell
California -- Sierra City
United States. -- Army. -- Cavalry, 1st.
United States. -- Army. -- Cavalry, 1st
Crook, George -- 1828-1890
Bernard, Reuben Frank -- 1832-1903
Johns, William -- 1820-1904
Bernard, Reuben Frank -- 1832-1903

Type:

Photoprints.
Clippings.
Biographies.

Physical Description:

13 folders in portfolio

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC MSS C-R 39LOCAL

Origin:

California