CHAPTEE XXI.

THE SHOSHONE WAR. 1866-1868.

COMPANIES AND CAMPS STEELE S MEASURES HALLECK HEADSTRONG BATTLE OF THE OWYHEE INDIAN RAIDS SUFFERINGS OF THE SETTLERS AND TRANSPORTATION MEN MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS ATTITUDE OF GOV ERNOR WOODS FREE FIGHTING ENLISTMENT OF INDIANS TO FIGHT INDIANS MILITARY REORGANIZATION AMONG THE LAVA-BEDS CROOK IN COMMAND EXTERMINATION OR CONFINEMENT AND DEATH IN RESER VATIONS.

IN the spring of 1865 the troops were early called upon to take the field in Oregon and Idaho, the roads between The Dalles and Boise, between Boise and Salt Lake, between Owyhee and Chico, and Owyhee and Huraboldt in California, being unsafe by reason of Indian raids. A hundred men were sent in April to guard The Dalles and Boise road, which, owing to its length, 450 miles, they could not do. In May, com pany B, Oregon volunteers, Captain Palmer, moved from The Dalles to escort a supply-train to Boise. Soon after arriving, Lieutenant J. W. Cullen was dircted to take twenty men and proceed 150 miles far ther to Camp Reed, on the Salmon Falls Creek, where he was to remain and guard the stage and immigrant road. Captain Palmer was ordered to establish a sum mer camp on Big Camas prairie, which he called Camp Wallace. From this point Lieutenant C. H. Walker was sent with twenty-two enlisted men to the Three Buttes, 1 10 miles east of Camp Wallace, to look out for

the immigration. Leaving most of his command at

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Three Buttes, Walker proceeded to Gibson s ferry,

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