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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 Sage in Washoe County. However, Pendleton 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 Sage in Washoe County. However, Pendleton 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 website states that Fort Sage was a rest stop on the [[Reno-Fort Bidwell Stage]] and that it was called Camp Sage by the military. The site states that in 1872, a surveyor named Alexis Von Schmidt wrote in his journal that Sage Fort Creek was named after settlers who build a fort and were eventually killed. A second version was told to Phillip Hall by Charles Clark which stated that a crude stone fort was created by soldiers and that no one was killed<ref>[http://www.lcoe.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=27%3Ahistory-day-curriculum&id=105%3Ahistoric-towns-of-lassen&Itemid=113 Historic Towns of Lassen County]</ref> | |||
Revision as of 05:49, 11 May 2015
Fort Sage was a garrison occupied in the early 1870's on the Reno - Fort Bidwell road, which went through Sutcliffe and the Smoke Creek Desert.
Ruhlen states that 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[1] locate Fort Sage in Washoe County. However, Pendleton 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.[2]
A website states that Fort Sage was a rest stop on the Reno-Fort Bidwell Stage and that it was called Camp Sage by the military. The site states that in 1872, a surveyor named Alexis Von Schmidt wrote in his journal that Sage Fort Creek was named after settlers who build a fort and were eventually killed. A second version was told to Phillip Hall by Charles Clark which stated that a crude stone fort was created by soldiers and that no one was killed[4]
See Also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Col. George Ruhlen, "Early Nevada Forts," Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, p. 51, Vol. VII, No. 3-4, 1964.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.
- ↑ Stephen Perry Jocelyn, "From Mostly Alkali", Caxton Printers, 1953.
- ↑ Historic Towns of Lassen County
- Pendleton, Lorann S. A., Alvin R. McLane, and David Hurst Thomas, "Cultural Resource Overview, Carson City District, West Central Nevada, Part 1," BLM Nevada Cultural Resource Series, No. 5, 1982.