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From: "jlewis15" <>
Subject: Re: Goose Lake fortifications
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 02:28:05 -0700


I have read accounts that this Mr. Ross was the first settler in Goose Lake
Valley. My son lives on Ross Creek, there must be a connection, this is
about 3 miles north of present day Davis Creek. John



----- Original Message -----
From: Tim I. Purdy <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 9:26 AM
Subject: Goose Lake fortifications


> Awhile back some one asked this question. In W.N. Davis Jr.'s Sagebrush
> Corner in regards to Davis Creek he wrote: Three miles to the north
> stood a house which a traveler in 1872 depicted as "a perfect little
> fortress, being built of logs, about fifteen feet square, sunk about one
> half its hieght in the ground, with the earth on the outside heaped up
> almost to the eaves." It had been erected in the late 1860s by Joseph
> Ross, a Scot and Union veteran who had come into the valley after trying
> his luck in Virginia City.
>
> Tim
>

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