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California Joe the frontier scout Moses Milner's enduring legend
A Mackenzie era scout known as California Joe or Moses Milner rests in Fort Robinson Nebraska. The biography by Milner and Forrest draws on war department records to separate myth from fact and recounts his life from Kentucky birth in 1829 through frontier exploits with Jim Bridger Wild Bill Hickok and Kit Carson to his 1876 death at Fort Robinson.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Fort Robinson
Neb
Moses Milner
California
Joe
Joe B. Milner
Warle H. Forrest
Caxton Printers, Ltd
Caldwell
Idaho
War Department
Milner
Moses Embree Milner
Stanford
Embree Armstead Milner
Milners
America
Yorkshire
England
Virginia
Kentucky
Warren County
Missouri
Embree Milner
St. Louis
Independence
Platte River
Fort Laramie
American Fur Company
Jim Baker
Yellowstone Country
Baker
American Pur Company
Fort Bridger
Jim Bridger
St. Lewis
Fort Leavenworth
Stephen W. Kearney
Army of the West
Mexico
Doniphan
Missouri Mounted Volunteers
Jyne
Deniphan
Far West
Ife
Platte
Watts
East Tennessee
Nancy Emma Watts
Plains
Sacramento Valley
Sacramento
Oregon Country
Benton County
West
Nancy Emma Milner
Penelope
Ulysses
Oregon
Washington
Virginia City
Fort Uvion
N. M
Kit Carson
Carson
Adobe , Walls
Texas Panhandle
Colorado
New Mexico
Kansas
Fort Riley
Tve
Fie
Indian Territory
Texas
Wild Bill Hickok
Buffalo Bill Cody
D. &. Payne
General Custer
The
Washita
Nevada
Wyoming
Jenny
Black Hills
Fort Larfimie
Red Cloud Agency
Pasappa
Rapid Creek
Rapid City
George Crook
Ronald S. Mackenzie
Red Cloud
Oglalas
Mackenzie
Dull Kolfe
Tom Newcomb
T. McGillycuddy
Crook
Br. McGilycuddy
Berkeley
Call
Buffalo Bill
Califordia Joe
Hickok
Miller
Wild Bill
Cody
Unico