Dr. George Martin Kober

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Graduate of Georgetown Medical School in 1873; worked in Ft. Bidwell area Modoc Co., California. He met Sarah Winnemucca 's father "Bad Face" Chief Winnemucca, of whom he writes in:
Reminiscences, Washington DC: Kober Foundation
" George Kober, a young German-born physician at Camp McDermit " <northern NV>
for Kober quotes of this work, see Sarah Winnemucca by Sallly Spingmeyer Zanjani; Chapter 6 (2001)
ISBN 0-8032-4917-9 Univ. Nebraska Press

(example) page 100: " But Winnemucca also had questions that Kober found "by no means easy to answer." He wondered what evidence white people had on life after death. He wanted to know why God allowed such hardships to fall upon Indians that their very existence was jeopardized." (snip)> page 101: "How much Winnemucca valued his talks with Dr. Kober was shown at his death when he left his gold ring to the doctor."

It is noteworthy that Chief Winnemucca did not die in or near Camp McDermit but a the same place where Dr. Kober's family later settled: near Ft. Bidwell, Modoc Co., California.