Fish Creek
The location of Fish Creek is somewhat mysterious.
Below is the text from Records of California Men in the War of the Rebellion, 1861 to 1867:
- "On the eleventh of January 1866, Captain George D. Conrad, with thirty-five men of Company, and twenty-five me of Company I, under Lieutenant Duncan, Second California Cavalry Volunteers, attacked a band of hostile Indians on the west side of Queens River, near Fish Creek. Thirty-five Indians were killed and nine taken prisoner. Corporal Biswell and private Allen of Company I, and privates Thomas A. Duffield, John Riley, and Richard Shultz of Company B, Second California Cavalry, were wounded. Two horses were killed and nine wounded."[1]
Sessions Wheeler further describes the battle that occurred.[2]
Wheeler believes that Battle Creek Ranch got its name from the battle.
In 1870, the population of Fish Creek totaled 11:[3]
- 3 Native
- 8 Foreign
- 10 White
- 1 "Colored"
Apparently native and foreign were not counted as part of the total of 11?
In 1890, Bancroft wrote that Fish Creek was 65 miles west of Paradise Valley.[4]
References
- ↑ "Records of California Men in the War of the Rebellion, 1861 to 1867," California. Adjutant General's Office, p. 186, 1890.
- ↑ "Nevada's Black Rock Desert," Sessions Wheeler, 1978, p. 134.
- ↑ "House Documents By USA House of Representatives: 9th Census," p. 199, 1872.
- ↑ "History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888," p. 220, 1890.