Sarah Winnemucca

Wild Women Of The West: Sarah Winnemucca

November 23, 2022
The sound of children singing hymns filled the early morning sky above Natchez Winnemucca’s ranch just outside Lovelock, Nevada.  The sun overhead was already a scorching ball of fire, and more than two dozen students took shelter from the ever-rising orb under a well-built, brush arbor.  A steady breeze, like a hearth from a furnace,...

Wild Women Of The West: Sarah Winnemucca

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October 20, 2021
The sound of children singing hymns filled the early morning sky above Natchez Winnemucca’s ranch just outside of Lovelock, Nevada.  The sun overhead was already a scorching ball of fire, and more than two dozen students took shelter from the ever-rising orb under a well-built, brush arbor.  A steady breeze like a hearth from a...

Wild Women Of The West: Sarah Winnemucca

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October 29, 2019
In the history of the Indians, she and Pocahontas will be the principal female characters, and her singular devotion to her race will no doubt be chronicled as an illustration of the better traits of the Indian character.  —San Francisco Call, January 1885 The Bannock War and the Army Territorial Enterprise, June 5, 1878:  We...

Wild Women Of The West: Sarah Winnemucca

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March 21, 2018
The Piute Indian Sarah Winnemucca listened intently as one of the tribe’s elders told the story of how the army soldiers killed a party of their people on a fishing expedition. Relations between the Piutes and white settlers had been strained since the discovery of silver in northern Nevada in 1859. An influx of prospectors...

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