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I got a kick out this article. https://www.reviewjournal.com/local...acy-claimed-southern-nevada-during-civil-war/
Miner disagreements
"It’s unlikely the few people that lived in the area at the time even knew about the secessionists’ claim. Hall-Patton said only a few hundred settlers lived in the future Clark County. Some were army deserters who chose to hide out from the war in the gold mines of Eldorado Canyon, about 50 miles southeast of present-day Las Vegas.
But Hall-Patton said the miners soon formed separate camps based on their sympathies: “Buster Falls” for those backing the Union, and “Lucky Jim,” about a mile down the canyon, for those who favored the Confederacy."
"Occasionally, fights would break out between the two camps. “They didn’t get along with each other,” the historian said. “They weren’t willing to fight for their sides in the war, but they would fight with each other.”
One infamous resident of Buster Falls, a miner and hired gun named Bill Piette, liked to shoot holes in the Confederate flag that flew over Lucky Jim, but none of quarrels between the camps ever resulted in significant bloodshed, Hall-Patton said.
After the Civil War ended, the two camps were abandoned, though Eldorado lived on for a time as Nevada’s busiest Colorado River steamboat port."
Eldorado Canyon is in Clark county, look where Clark county is on the map below. It couldn't be in a more remote area of America. The backdrop of the ACW manifested itself everywhere, how suprising.
Miner disagreements
"It’s unlikely the few people that lived in the area at the time even knew about the secessionists’ claim. Hall-Patton said only a few hundred settlers lived in the future Clark County. Some were army deserters who chose to hide out from the war in the gold mines of Eldorado Canyon, about 50 miles southeast of present-day Las Vegas.
But Hall-Patton said the miners soon formed separate camps based on their sympathies: “Buster Falls” for those backing the Union, and “Lucky Jim,” about a mile down the canyon, for those who favored the Confederacy."
"Occasionally, fights would break out between the two camps. “They didn’t get along with each other,” the historian said. “They weren’t willing to fight for their sides in the war, but they would fight with each other.”
One infamous resident of Buster Falls, a miner and hired gun named Bill Piette, liked to shoot holes in the Confederate flag that flew over Lucky Jim, but none of quarrels between the camps ever resulted in significant bloodshed, Hall-Patton said.
After the Civil War ended, the two camps were abandoned, though Eldorado lived on for a time as Nevada’s busiest Colorado River steamboat port."
Eldorado Canyon is in Clark county, look where Clark county is on the map below. It couldn't be in a more remote area of America. The backdrop of the ACW manifested itself everywhere, how suprising.
How the Confederacy claimed Southern Nevada during Civil War
While controversy swirls around Civil War legacies and monuments in other states, Southern Nevada’s brief annexation by the South helped put the present “Battle-Born” state on the...
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