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Pendelton states that rock foundations found 5 km. southwest of the [[Fort Sage Drift Fence]] at [http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:842140 Miller Spring] could be the ruins of Fort Sage.<ref name="Pendelton83"> Pendleton, Lorann S. A., Thomas, David Hurst, "[http://hdl.handle.net/2246/308 The Fort Sage Drift Fence, Washoe County, Nevada]," Anthropological papers of the AMNH, Vol. 58, Pt. 2, 1983.</ref>  Miller Spring is 39 miles from Reno.  
Pendelton states that rock foundations found 5 km. southwest of the [[Fort Sage Drift Fence]] at [http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:842140 Miller Spring] could be the ruins of Fort Sage.<ref name="Pendelton83"> Pendleton, Lorann S. A., Thomas, David Hurst, "[http://hdl.handle.net/2246/308 The Fort Sage Drift Fence, Washoe County, Nevada]," Anthropological papers of the AMNH, Vol. 58, Pt. 2, 1983.</ref>  Miller Spring is 39 miles from Reno.  


A foot note in Pendleton states that the location of Fort Sage is uncertain and that Jocelyn<ref>Stephen Perry Jocelyn, "[https://books.google.com/books?id=CMIbAAAAIAAJ&q=Jocelyn+Caxton&dq=Jocelyn+Caxton&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jypQVZ3NGczLsAXmyoHICw&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA | From Mostly Alkali]", Caxton Printers, 1953.</a> and Ruhlen<ref name="Ruhlen"> locate Fort Sate in Washoe County.  However, Pendelton states that W. Dalton La Rue (owner of the Winnemucca Ranch) thought it was in California and that the rock foundations at Miller Spring were built by a Mexican landowner in the 1880s.<ref name="Pendleton83"/>
A foot note in Pendleton states that the location of Fort Sage is uncertain and that Jocelyn<ref>Stephen Perry Jocelyn, "[https://books.google.com/books?id=CMIbAAAAIAAJ&q=Jocelyn+Caxton&dq=Jocelyn+Caxton&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jypQVZ3NGczLsAXmyoHICw&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA | From Mostly Alkali]", Caxton Printers, 1953.</ref> and Ruhlen<ref name="Ruhlen"> locate Fort Sate in Washoe County.  However, Pendelton states that W. Dalton La Rue (owner of the Winnemucca Ranch) thought it was in California and that the rock foundations at Miller Spring were built by a Mexican landowner in the 1880s.<ref name="Pendleton83"/>





Revision as of 04:50, 11 May 2015

Fort Sage was a garrison occupied in the early 1870's on the Reno-Fort Bidwell road. Fort Sage was located "46 miles north of Reno"[1] "between State Line Peak and the Virginia Mountains."[1]

Pendelton states that rock foundations found 5 km. southwest of the Fort Sage Drift Fence at Miller Spring could be the ruins of Fort Sage.[2] Miller Spring is 39 miles from Reno.

A foot note in Pendleton states that the location of Fort Sage is uncertain and that Jocelyn[3] and Ruhlen<ref name="Ruhlen"> locate Fort Sate in Washoe County. However, Pendelton states that W. Dalton La Rue (owner of the Winnemucca Ranch) thought it was in California and that the rock foundations at Miller Spring were built by a Mexican landowner in the 1880s.[4]


See Also

Camp McGarry

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Col. George Ruhlen, "| Early Nevada Forts," Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, p. 51, Vol. VII, No. 3-4, 1964.
  2. Pendleton, Lorann S. A., Thomas, David Hurst, "The Fort Sage Drift Fence, Washoe County, Nevada," Anthropological papers of the AMNH, Vol. 58, Pt. 2, 1983.
  3. Stephen Perry Jocelyn, "| From Mostly Alkali", Caxton Printers, 1953.
  4. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Pendleton83