Captain Sou

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In December 1865, Captain Conrad and Captain Sou[1] tracked Black Rock Tom to Fish Creek (present day Battle Creek Ranch) and in the resulting battle killed forty of Tom's band with only three survivors.[2] See Wheeler's Nevada's Black Rock Desert for a detailed description of the battle.

Captain Sou was wounded and never fully recovered. His wife Susie, died in 1888.t

References

  1. "Old Cap Susie dead," The Pacific Bee, Sacramento, p. 5, March 1, 1888.
  2. "History of Nevada," Robert Lewers, Weekly Nevada State Journal, p. 1, November 14, 1896