The far west was certainly not immune to the various political/social impacts of the nation’s Civil War.

Take for instance, there was once a district in the region known in the Honey Lake Valley as the Tule Confederacy.  So name by a land surveyor, in the early 1860s,  as he noted there was a large contingent of settlers who were southern sympathizers. Yet, by 1900, the term had been shortened to the Tules. In the last few generations this term, too, has faded away. Some may also heard the region known as the latter term of Seven Bridges.

It should be noted, the Skedaddle Mountains was so named by a term southerners used in the Civil War used to “flee.”

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