Appreciate the time and effort you put into these videos! As a local myself who loves to research the local history and visit significant sites, it's really interesting to learn from you. Cheers!

I was born in Reno in 1948. My father was a physician. He provided medical services to the reservation. I often accompanied him to the reservation as a child.

Great Story- I've been to Pyramid lake several times- and didn't know this history. Thank you!

Terrific historic account and story telling with video at the locations, thank you will be looking for more.

Nice episode! Two counties in NV got named for combatants from the Pyramid Lake wars: Ormsby and Storey. As a retired San Francisco Sheriff's Deputy and frequent visitor to that area, I've always been cognizant of the shared history since Jack Coffee Hays was the first sheriff of San Francisco and led the "Washoe Regiment" in the Second Battle of Pyramid Lake.

This was one of the most difficult segments for me to read in the Biography of Sarah Winnemucca by Sally Zanjani, and you captured it wonderfully (as wonderfully as the story could be told). I really enjoyed the black and white videography and the beautiful aerial shots of Pyramid Lake, Lahontan, and Fort Churchill. I collect Nevada history books and will have to add that one to my collection! Congrats on the home brew!

Fantastic channel. Liked and subscribed. Thank you for providing a detailed history of our city and surrounding area.

I’ve done several Paiute family trees and noticed that lots of them were forced onto Fort Bidwell. Some were at the Reservation in Greenville and others settled in Honey Lake Township.

Thanks for posting this very tragic, but very important story. Well worth knowing. Great job.

You hit it out of the park again. Outstanding research and backup photography. Top notch editing too. Keep up the good work.

Fantastic history. Thank you for making these videos!

Great piece of history and well done video. Subscribed.

Enjoyed this bit of Nevada’s history.

Really well done Steve.

Amazing video,you always do a great job researching..Thanks!

Thank you for the video, very interesting

I would have bet against you finding an opportunity to use the term "whoop ass" in any of you videos - and then, YOU DELIVER! Seriously, the videography of the landscape was breathtaking, and as always, I appreciate the well researched completeness of the stories you tell.

Love your channel. It's my dream to live up in the Reno area, and your stories are making it more inviting. I love the history!

Nice Gretsch! Great vid.

I’ve read everything I could find in regard to this war over the years, and visited as much of the battlefield as possible many times. Your video is very accurate and I really enjoyed watching it. For anyone wanting to know more about this amazing time in history, “Sand In A Whirlwind” by Ferol Egan is a great book. It’s hard for me to understand why no one has made a motion picture about this even. Hopefully one day someone will. There were actually many battles that occurred over a wide area north and east of Pyramid Lake. The book goes into great detail how most of them happened and the individuals that fought them. Thanks for making this video. Every Nevadian should know about this. 🙏🏼

Awesome story

Thank you. I enjoyed the video. I attended Carson City High School and graduated from the University of Nevada Reno. My folks lived in Carson City. Glen M

Very entertaining and informative. Chief Numaga was amazingly accurate in his predictions and reminds me of Admiral Yamamoto, who was also fluent in English (studied at Harvard) and didn't think his people could win a war with the United States. Impressive how he knew that California would be sending in reinforcements and that the swarming would never end until the Natives were defeated and dispossessed of their lands. Thanks for your efforts, very interesting for any history buff, I'd think...at least they are for this one.

Great video Thanks for sharing a little piece of history. Take care and have a great holiday season

I love you're channel, I just stumbled on it last night. Great content. I live here in Reno and have always wanted to know more about the pyramid lake war

I remember camping and fishing at Pyramid Lake in the 60s.

Much obliged Pard! Grew up in Reno. Pyramind Lake being the one of the Sunday family getaways back in the 50’s / 60’s. But we had to be back home for Bonanza. Never knew about the War there as education establishments didn’t teach that in school.

Thanks. Very interesting; I just came across your channel now and liked 👍 and subscribed. Cheers 🍻 ( I never knew that about Jimmy Carter but I used to have a can of Billy Beer, Jimmy's brother's beer when I was a boy. It was unopened and I had it on my shelf, my Dad must have got it for me. Lol 😆 )

Very Good! There is a book about the Williams Station and the 1860 War, its "SAND IN A WHIRLWIND"

Been to pyrimid lake many time's. Having lived in Reno for 16yrs. I caught so many large Brown Trout on the lake that were the size of huge King Salmon's up around 15 - 20 lbs. But when fishing pyrimid you had better adhear to all of the tribal rules. They will confincate your equipment including your boat! But some of the best trout fishing the west offers. .

Great lighting! Perfect Rembrandt lighting. 🎞️ 🤓

Happily subscribed!😊

Great video thank you. Nice Gretsch as well...

Your channel is awesome man!

Nice, looking forward to a Roop county war video!

Thank you and I enjoy my own homemade Imperial Stout and I didn't know that Jimmy Carter made it possible

Excellent video! Love the history! I live 25 miles north of the Lava Beds National Monument. Use to love exploring the caves and learning the history of the Modoc War of’72-‘73. The terrain is really like Pyramid Lake. Got out to far in the sand out there at Pyramid Lake and a couple nice native guys pulled us out. Beautiful down there. I am guessing Jimmy Carter had his brother Billy in mind when signing the new brew law 😂 I love that guitar too !! Looks like Randy Bachman’s old guitar! I love the story about how it was gone for many years, 45 I believe. 1957 Gretsch guitar finally found - in Tokyo Rare 6120 Chet Atkins model. We need a story and some songs on that guitar!!

A 2 state solution? Sounds a lot like Ti Tirti O Waitangi

I live in Wadsworth, maybe 20 or 25 miles away from this site. The gas station right alongside interstate 80 employees, Native Americans. I am sure these cashiers are probably related direct descendants of the Warriors mentioned in this wonderful film. It is so sad that Pierce could not have dominated the entire distance in a timeline.

I would like to try your home brew , I'll bet its good ! Thankyou for the history.

Thank you.

This is great. Thank you (beer sounds tasty too)

Liked your narrative.and the "Cher Atkins model"Duane Edfy recorded hie hits in Phoenix.I live inTucsom.Been tiz Reno several times

Nice video! Thx

Great video with lots of unknown (to me) history. Thank you!

Thanks so much for doing the work for these history lessons! Seeing your music equipment behind you made me wonder if you ever host any jam sessions anywhere. If so, I'd sure like to be a participant!

Excellent video as always. BTW...Great Gretsch! Is that you playing the guitar on your videos intros and outros? It doesn't sound like a big hollow body.

Very good! I was doing research years ago, and the closing of Winnemucca lake for derby dam I understood to be a big factor on the 1860 war. Have you done any digging around on that? The Pauite tribe had thriving fishing vessels and quite a big revenue on tourism.

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This is entertaining and a quality informational video.Keep this format going

Thank you, all hail, and cheers to President Carter!

solid video

Another well crafted episode but this one shows the extra care and research used to make it possible. The images, diagrams, drone footage and on location filming should make this eligible for some kind of award. I am a happy subscriber 😊

My grandfather came to Hazen and then Sparks in 1911. I wont call myself a native , because.. We ( Euro settlers ), are not ! I've always been interested in the brutal and selfish history of the west. I know of this bit of history, but.. You are really nailing it ! Thank you for this.

I just joined. I’m from Reno ❤

And today we celebrate the ability to distill at home legally. Cheers

Holy cow man I love your shirt at the end... Are we not men? WE ARE DEVO!

I used to ask my mom to stop when we drove by Pyramid Lake so I could wade way out.

I finished eighth grade in Coleville, California. Locals talked about a battle with the Paiutes in 1927. I looked on the Internet and found nothing. Do you have any information about this battle? Glen

The first few moments of this video was horrendously frustrating, because of how misleading the title can be, because of it misleading to a current event! Please fix it and this whole video will be wickedly ace! I hold an Associates Degree of Fine Arts with Western Nevada College. I would spend my time, east of Carson City, exploring, fishing, and rock hounding down the Carson River Basin, all the way to Fort Churchill. After I got over my losing my temper over the initial first few seconds of the film, this exploded into into a very wickedly ace history video with gorgeous landscapes of Truckee and Carson Basins. I use to hike and mountain bike between Carson City and Virginia City and visit my mustang buddies along the way. I had on several occasions caught really nice sized trout and small mouth Bass that would roughly measure up to eighteen inches. I know how to target the bigger fish! NO BAIT, Only light plastics, small spoons, and crankbaits. I want to return soon for a week or so to fish Pyramid Lake to catch a lohontan cutthroat, just only one that would be enough to pop into my oven. I am a severe history buff largely due to the core history classes that covered Nevada, American, world, and Constitutional history and law. Your effort is very deeply appreciated by me except the first few seconds of me wanting to pull my hair outta my skull 💀 ☠️ 🙃 because I was assuming some sort of issue arose between the Piutes and BLM that had recently occurred. The first few moments, a total misunderstanding of what I thought I was watching for that grew into a glorious historical presentation 😀 😄 👏 . ♤♤♤

Wow!! Invaders commit atrocities against Indians and Indian gets killed. So sad. No justice whatsoever.

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Reno got trees , forest, , should put a dividing line there ,north south,

I know it is in California, but I would be interested Fort Bidwell's history.

Can you please make a video about organized crime in Reno.. Thanks and I love watching

Yep. History can be cruel sometimes.

🤔 I wonder how different history might have been if the Williams Brothers hadn't done what they did to those 2 Indian girls? Kinda reminds me of the movie "The Outlaw Josie Wales."

Sad, people in general are greedy, no matter what race or what side of the planet you come from. Greed has caused more war and death then anything else..... It's still going on today!

Not all true ,,,facts of the event are wrong

Good thing they didn't call it an insurrection

Have you considered using Patreon? ❤

Looks like a gretch guitar on your left.

Sean, one thing about this whole story that seems repeatedly dismissed once the story begins is those girls. Those grown men were doing god knows what to those poor girls for quite awhile, had those been white girls under the barn floor boards, this story would begin and end much different. In my opinion, the Indians were well within their right to seek revenge, especially the father of those girls. Had they been white, all men there would’ve been tried and hung. Also, Sand in a Whirlwind had almost nothing to do with this particular war or story. I don’t think I’d call this much of a war but more of a witch hunt. Sand in a Whirlwind was the story, or similar beginnings. A Shoshone named Mike whom had his daughter kidnapped by basque sheepherders, he found them after his ranch was stolen from his family by the Mormon Church. His daughters were brutalized at Camp Denio Nevada for months, until he found the camp with his daughters bound, tied and beaten inside. The basque men were out herding sheep. He waited for them, once they arrived back, he killed every one of them, a better suiting execution I cannot think of. Anyhow, Shoshone Mike was but another victim of the westward expansion and Manifest Destiny movements, as the militia that had gathered during the Paiute “wars” was hungry for “Indian blood” they caught up with Mike in Little High Rock Canyon, they brutally killed him, his wife and all of his children. The militia couldn’t dig a grave, so they blasted a hole in the ground and threw them all into it. The nature of killing his children with him, in my opinion, proves which side was savage. Shoshone Mike had lived in harmony and peace on his ranch for well over thirty years, selling wood and trading rabbit, dear meat and fish to the white locals, they all admired him and were very close with him, that is until the Utah Mormon regime decided an Indian couldn’t own land. In all the books written of those times, it really irritates me that the reasons behind the Indians anger is never expressed, but once a white man is killed, the entire story shifts to “Indian savagery” or “Indian brutality” Those girls were kidnapped, starved, beaten, rapes repeatedly, then stuffed underneath the floor for safe keeping. Dogs retreated better than they were, yet their relatives were wrong for seeking revenge?

They developed languages! Wow. That's unbelievable.

So sad to hear, in the beginning of this topic, "the land looked much like it does today" so wrong, the land and water are thrown so out of balance from ag as everything in most of the land thousands of miles around everywhere you can look today, just so sad, nothing is even close to what it was.

We even have stolen their drum circles aye yihyia ya 🎉🎉

Govt atrocities are hidden.

The peaceful Indians never had any conflicts amongst themselves? Nonsense

Who's for demolishing the ruins of our shitebag military? No reason to leave that out in the desert. I'm sure the natives would appreciate the gesture

Europeans are a trip

Hawhite!! lol

bad audio

As much as I can say I am a proud American citizen, I truly feel bad for the natives that lived here before Europeans came and screwed him over.

Circa 2024: SETTLERS ARE NOW CALLED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

Them not him

Invaders not settlers

The Paiutes also suffered slave raids. They were enslaved by the Navajo and the Ute tribes.