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It is set during the Rogue River Wars in the Oregon Territory but features the standard costumes of a post American Civil War western and was filmed on the Newhall Ranch, California.
The Rogue River Wars were an armed conflict in 1855–1856 between the U.S. Army, local militias and volunteers, and the Native American tribes commonly grouped under the designation of Rogue River Indians, in the Rogue River Valley area of what today is southern Oregon.
Aug 6, 2016 · Southern Oregon University archaeology field school participants unearthed the remains of Miner's Fort in Curry County. The pioneer militia redoubt was besieged near the end of the Rogue River Indian War in 1856.
The town of Ellensburg (present-day Gold Beach) and all of the dwellings between the Rogue River and Port Orford were burned, and survivors fled to an improvised fort north of the river. In March, however, regular troops moving north from Crescent City, California, encountered little resistance.
Just north of Medford, the Upper and Lower Table Rock mesas towering above the Rogue River were a refuge for the Takelma people during their bloody conflict with white settlers, which led to the Rogue River Wars (1855-1856). Upper Table Rock offers the shortest hike, rising 720 feet over 1.25 miles to the mesa summit.
The conflict in southern Oregon was the largest in the Pacific Northwest and, save for the Sioux and Apache wars, the most costly in the western half of the country. The human losses exceeded those in such well-known conflicts as those between the United States and the Navajos, Nez Perces, Comanches, and Cheyennes.
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Oct 12, 2012 · Pioneers and historians variously claimed the battle took place near the town of Merlin or above a northern Josephine County body of water known as Bloody Spring.
