146 Years ago today.
January 29th, 1863 Bear River Massacre- Washington State
As the Shoshone were reaching desperate measures to fight off the U.S. Army, including the use of tomahawks and archery, the soldiers seemed to lose all sense of control and discipline. After most of the men were killed, soldiers proceeded to rape and molest the women of the encampment, and many of the children were also shot and killed.
In some cases, soldiers held the feet of infants by the heel and "beat their brains out on any hard substance they could find." Those women who refused to submit to the soldiers were shot and killed. One local resident, Alexander Stalker, noted that at this time many soldiers pulled out their pistols and shot several Shoshoni people at point blank range.
The soldiers also deliberately burned almost everything they could get their hands on, especially the dwelling structures that the Shoshone had been sleeping in, and killing anybody they found to be still inside.
Danish emigrant Hans Jasperson claims to have walked among the bodies, counting 493 dead Shoshones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_River_Massacre BASTARDS! I HOPE THEY ARE ROTTING IN HELL.
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