[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: Sometime in the future.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed.

Posting history, in reverse order

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Link to previous New York Times thread

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[Tennessee Nana]

That might be ORMSBY...

[Rebelbase]

FWIW, Paiutes, Shoeshone and Bannock tribes allied together to fight at the battle of Pyramid Lake which was part of the Paiute war in NW Nevada which was instigated by the tribe’s land being overrun by prospectors and miners upon the discovery of the Comstock Load.