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after finding game, grass, and water, it was attacked by
Indians. Another theory suggests that Wolverine Rangers camping in the valley found it to be so cold that they burned their wagons for heat and danced a fandango. They named their camp site "Fandango Valley". Later pioneers who passed the area
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and saw burned wagons deduced that an Indian massacre had occurred. Fairfield describes an 1858 skirmish between Whites and
Indigenous people that occurred near Fandango Valley that resulted in at least 17 Indigenous men being scalped by Whites.
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Applegate and the Lassen, that were traveled by emigrant pioneers between 1846 and 1850. The Applegate Trail, originally intended as a less dangerous route to the
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may have occurred in the area. The massacre involved a large emigrant train that had camped at the edge of the valley. While the party indulged in a
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Rensch, Hero Eugene; Rensch, Ethel Grace; Hoover, Mildred Brooke (1966).
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