Mike Daggett was a Shoshone man with thirteen children. The earliest record of him was in 1890 when he and his family were removed from their lands on Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho by settlers who claimed they had purchased the land. Shoshone Mike moved his family off the reservation and traveled to Nevada where they worked at various jobs.
In January 1911, the Daggetts were encamped in Little High Rock Canyon in Washoe County, Nevada. Food was running low so Mike and a few sons rustled a cow belonging to a local rancher.
The theft and slaughter of the cow was seen by a sheep herder and a posse of four men went to the canyon to deal with the rustlers, but when the four cowboys entered the canyon Mike and two of his oldest sons ambushed the posse and killed all of them on January 19. The bodies were later found mutilated and piled in a creek bed by a search party on February 8, after which a posse of Nevada and California policemen and citizens was sent to apprehend Shoshone Mike and his family. On February 25, 1911, the posse discovered Mike and his family at a place known as Kelley Creek in Humboldt County, Nevada. During a battle that lasted three hours, Mike was killed, along with seven others.
This is his story.
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