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Tim
One of my fondest memories and earliest memories of growing up is spending time at the Fruit Growers Supply Company log cabin and guest house at Eagle Lake. Company picnics were held there. My dad reserved the cabin for a week or two for summer vacations after we relocated to Hilt. It was an impressive log structure.
Tim,
It seems that during the 1850s to 1870s, the Honey Lakers were on their own when it came to conflicts with the Native Americans. I am curious about the Nobles Trail emigrants and what if any protection they had. Cavalry outposts were a long ways away. There was Fort Bidwell in Surprise Valley to provide protection and safe harbor along the Applegate Trail. There was Fort Crook in Fall River Mills. Camp McGarry in the Black Rock Desert and Fort Churchill east of Reno.
Especially during the Pyramid Lake War, it seems that the local settlers had to defend themselves as in the case of Alexander Painter’s sad story. I seem to recall some kind of Cavalry Garrison in Litchfield at least for a summer and possibly a safe harbor type of fortification in Janesville. It seems that the reaction time of Cavalry support would be too long. Is that the case that the settlers in Honey Lake didn’t really count on government support and would gather together and settle conflicts using local men as protection?