Were any white wagon train emigrants ever massacred by Indians?
“… John Unruh identifies only four pre-Civil War trail massacres which have sufficient historical documentation to substantiate them as being clearly attributable to Indians. These were the Bloody Point massacre of 1852 at Tule Lake, California; the Ward Party massacre near Fort Boise on the Snake River in 1854; the Holloway Party massacre on the Humboldt River in 1857; and the Otter-Van Orman Party massacre near Salmon Falls on the Snake River in 1860.” [ Thomas H. Hunt, “Anatomy of a Massacre: Bloody Point, 1852” Overland Journal, Vol. 7, No.
