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Steamboats, Shoshoni, Scoundrels and Such is collection of stories chronicling some of the little-known events that took place during the opening of our Western Frontier. Many of the incidents depicted took place in the backwash of Americas great Civil War, which largely overshadowed events in the West. This perhaps, is one reason they are so little known. Despite their relative obscurity, these engrossing tales have long deserved a fuller recital. Most of these yarns are set in early California, Nevada and Idaho. One is about Brother Jonathan, a Gold Rush steamship with a hex. Another is the story of the little steamboat Shoshone that sailed on the upper Snake River, and once went hurtling, pell-mell down through Hells Canyon of that river. Still another recounts the antic history of Caleb Lyon, the foppish territorial governor who started a diamond rush in the Owyhee region of Idaho, who twice fled the territory out of fear for his life, and who stole treaty money meant for the Nez Perce Indians. And here, for the first time, in full, is chronicled the short, melancholy life of Colonel Charles McDermit, who played such a large part in early Nevada military history. The protagonists of another tale set in Nevada--the Haws brothers--are a pair of hoodlums who rediscovered their religion after spending their younger days in league with Indians, robbing emigrants. Nearly all of the stories deal with the deadly clash between white and red men that took place in the mid-nineteenth century, and demonstrate the damage done to both races, by corrupt, carpetbagging politicians. Two of the stories deal exclusively with White-Indian conflict--one tells of a massacre of Shoshoni in Idaho, and another recounts the last battle between the two races that took place years later, perhaps as a consequence of that massacre.

 

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