Podcast
Park Predators
The host referenced the book as a source for historical incidents and context surrounding the murders, noting its descriptions of reported raids by Native American men, a survivor’s claim after a shootout, and earlier violent encounters in the region. The citations were used to provide background rather than to endorse the work.
Episode: The Pioneer
The host cited the book as a source for historical incidents and context about the murders, noting it described reported raids and earlier violent encounters in the region.
According to author Asa Merrill Fairfield in his book, Fairfield's Pioneer History of Lassen County, California, there had been a number of reported incidents of Paiute men or Pit River Native American men raiding white settlers' camps who were venturing in small groups in the Black Rock Desert.
According to author Asa Merrill Fairfield reported in his book that it wasn't very long after Lamericus showed up at the ranch claiming he'd survived a shootout before the second group from the ranch made it to the canyon.
According to Asa Merrill Fairfield's book, in the early 1850s, so several years before the murders, Peter and 13 men killed a group of Pit River Native American men who'd kidnapped some women from a neighboring tribe.