The last casualty in battle of Pyramid Lake

[CarsonChris]

As a detectorist I love checking old maps. I found a map from 1860 of the area I live. It showed a cemetery in a location that I never knew a cemetery existed. I hunted it down. It’s on the side of a sagebrush covered hill. No fences or markers to even show it’s there. To my surprise I found this headstone. This was the last man killed at the second battle of Pyramid Lake. The Pyramid Lake Paiute war brought the construction of Forts and Union Cavalry into the area.

 

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[Mekong Mike]

Great find. Thanks for posting.

 

[A2coins]

Wow that's really cool surprised it's still there standing up

 

[tamrock]

I wanna get over to Winnemucca Lake sometime to see America's oldest petroglyphs. Been awhile since I've seen pyramid lake.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnemucca_Lake

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Thank you for sharing!

 

[CarsonChris]

I wanna get over to Winnemucca Lake sometime to see America's oldest petroglyphs. Been awhile since I've seen pyramid lake.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnemucca_Lake

They’ve posted no trespassing signs around those. They are absolutely amazing. Deep. Almost 2” carved into the rock.

 

[tamrock]

They’ve posted no trespassing signs around those. They are absolutely amazing. Deep. Almost 2” carved into the rock.

That's disappointing it's closed off, but probably a good thing in preventing vandals from adding they're own interpretations. I've seen other petroglyphs scared by the inconsiderate folks here and there.