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Finally, to speculate a bit, many Nevada volunteers had served time in Utah under General Connor’s command and were later transferred back to Nevada.79 It is likely that some of them knew of the Bear River Massacre of 1863 (see ssss1) and the follow-up campaign against Chief Pocatello, and were imbued with the kind of hatred that such actions produced. It is little wonder that the young and inexperienced officers with volunteer soldiers would take the cries for extermination literally, and while so doing make a name for themselves. As for Old Winnemucca, he would pursue his own spiritual quest in the Steens Mountains. After the Mud Lake massacre he, and many of his followers, refused to return to Pyramid Lake.80
Throughout the end of the 1860s the Northern Paiutes of Pyramid Lake and western Nevada had several concerns. Violence and conflict with whites was one of them, especially in 1866 after the soldiers shot “everything that wore paint” at Rock Canyon, north of Pyramid Lake and east of the Modoc area, killing 80 Indian men and 35 women.