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Purpose= ~• This project conceived to better understand the various roles military men had during careers in and around Modoc County California during the last half of the 1800s . An attempt will be made to link GENi profiles to this project.==Veterans of Indian Wars who lived or died at Ft. Bidwell ==* Co F 8(?)th U.S. Inf ** Pvt Alfred Banke 19 Aug 1850 Germany died 6 Nov 1883 (aged 33), bur...
especially in Fort Bidwell! The families who stayed eventually intermarried ==Camp Bidwell > Fort Bidwell==During the influx of settlers and the driving out of Native tribes, Bidwell began as a military outpost and fort positioned to help protect ranchers and farmers along the immigrant trail. After a brief period of ascendancy, Ft. Bidwell's development stalled. The town never grew into a we...