Smoke Creek Band
"Big Jim" was a member of the Smoke Creek Band who was killed in June 1860, it was thought that Big Jim had murdered Horace Adams in the Honey Lake Valley.[1][2]
The Smoke Creek Band was accused of stealing cattle, which led to the Battle of Mud Lake at Winnemucca Lake in March 1865
References
- ↑ "Chase and Capture of an Indian Chief," Newspapers.com, Orleans Independent Standard (Irasburgh, Vermont), August 17, 1860, p. 2
- ↑ "Fairfield's Pioneer History of Lassen County, California," p. 224