Reports from Lt. Tredwell Moore to the Pacific Division on the Mariposa Indian War of 1852
Moore T. 1852. Reports from Lt. Tredwell Moore to the Pacific Division on the Mariposa Indian War of 1852
These reports give a slightly different account on the Mariposa Indian War of 1852 from that of Lafayette H. Bunnell in his book Discovery of the Yosemite. These reports were found by Thomas C. Fletcher among U.S. Army correspondence in the National Archives, Washington, D.C. They are reproduced in his book Paiute, Prospector, Pioneer: The Bodie-Mono Lake Area in the Nineteenth Century (Lee Vining, California: Artemisia Press, 1987). ISBN 0-932347-03-7, LCCN 87-70792. This book is out-of-print but can be found in used bookstores. The differences between Dr. Bunnell’s and Lt. Moore’s accounts, and reconstruction of events from both, are detailed in Chapter 2 of Fletcher’s book, along with the full reports of Lt. Moore in the Appendix, which reproduced in full below. After an extensive search by Fletcher, no more reports have been found.