CALIFORNIA, NEVADA, AND IDAHO

[1] John Codman, The Round Trip by Way of Panama (New York: Putnam's Sons, 1879), 1-33.
[2] Louis J. Rasmussen, San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists (Baltimore: Dedford, 1965), 73-80.
[3] Directory of San Francisco for 1853, Sutro Library, San Francisco.
[4] Nevada Journal (Nevada City, California), 3 July 1853.
[5] Ibid., 14 October 1853.
[6] History of Nevada County, California (Berkeley: Howell-North, 1970), 8.
[7] State of California. Census of 1853.
[8] Nevada Journal, 18 April 1855.
[9] Ibid., 13 April 1855.
[10] Ibid., 17 August 1855.
[11] Ibid., 26 October 1855.
[12] Nevada County Deed Records.
[13] Nevada Journal, 30 November 1855.
[14] The name of this girl is unknown. In other works about Plummer's life, she is referred to as "Miss B." The initial "B" is false as well, offering no clue.
[15] Ibid., 26 October and 2 November 1855.
[16] Ibid., 9 May 1856.
[17] Ibid., 10 March 1854.
[18] Boise News, 26 March 1864.
[19] Nevada Journal, 13 June 1856.
[20] Nevada Democrat (Nevada City, California), 19 July 1856.
[21] Ibid., 3 September 1856.
[22] Ibid., 15 October and 4 November 1856.
[23] "Evidence Taken Before the Coroner," Nevada Journal, 7 November 1856.
[24] Ibid.
[25] Ibid.
[26] Ibid.
[27] Ibid.
[28] Nevada Democrat, 19 November 1856.
[29] "Evidence Taken Before the Coroner," Nevada Journal, 7 No- vember 1856.
[30] Nevada Democrat, 19 November 1856.
[31] Ibid.
[32] Nevada Journal, 14 November 1856.
[33] Ibid.
[34] Ibid., 28 November 1856; Nevada Democrat, 8 January; 4 and 18 February; 11 March; and Nevada Journal, 15 April 1857.
[35] Nevada Democrat, 25 March 1857.
[36] This information was supplied by residents of Nevada City to the anonymous author of Jerome Peltier, ed., The Banditti of the Rocky Mountains and Vigilance Committee in Idaho (Minneapolis: Ross and Haines, 1964), 43. Though he turned his work into a piece of sensational fiction, the author had some reliable informants in California.
[37] Nevada Democrat, 22 April 1857.
[38] Nevada Journal, 8 May 1857.
[39] Ibid., 13 and 20 May and 3 June 1857.
[40] Ibid., 21 August 1857.