Klamath and Salmon River War

Indian wars and conflicts of California

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Klamath and Salmon River War, or Klamath War,^[1] or Red Cap War, was an American Indian War which occurred in Klamath County California from January to March 1855. The war involved the Yurok and Karok Native American tribes. Local miners wanted the Indians, armed with guns and ammunition from traders, destroyed. Troops from the State milita were necessary to stop the war.^[1] ^[2]

This war is not to be confused with the Rogue River Wars which occurred in southern Oregon beginning in 1851 with fighting from June 17 to July 3, 1851, then again from August 8, through September 1853, and then again during 1856 from March to June.

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b Anthony Jennings Bledsoe, Indian wars of the Northwest: A California sketch, Bacon & Company, San Francisco, 1885; Chapter VI The Klamath War. pp.153-176
^ REDWOOD NATIONAL PARK, History Basic Data, VI. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KLAMATH RIVER RESERVATION (continued), C. THE EXECUTIVE ORDER of 1855, 1. The Red Cap War