In the latter half of 1988 Roderick Sprague was notified by Betty Lee, then chairman of the Archaeology Committee of the Oregon-California Trails Association, that Paul and Ruby Tschirky, landowners of a possible site of the Bloody Point massacre, were Read More …
Reviews accounts of the Bloody Point Massacre of 1852, in which a band of Modoc Indians attacked a small group of emigrants at Tule Lake in Northern California, and was subsequently routed by a rescue party from Yreka. Speculates on Read More …
The site described here lies about 5 miles east of Yreka, Siskiyou County. It is on the north side of a deep ravine, drained by a small stream (Cash Creek). There are several other rock shelters in the vicinity.’ These Read More …
This report, one in a series of archaeological studies pubUshed m recent years by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), describes the first systematic testing of highelevation sites in the far southern Sierra Nevada.
A summary of the Emigrant Wagon Road 2003 PIT project in California.