Address Restricted, Major's Place, Nevada. County/parish: White Pine.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 01, 2017. NRIS 100000464.
1 contributing site.Also known as:
Bahsahwahbee is a grove of Rocky Mountain juniper trees, locally called swamp cedars, in White Pine County, Nevada, where multiple massacres of Western Shoshone people occurred in the 19th century, two by the U.S. Army and one by vigilantes. The name means "sacred water valley" in the Shoshoni language. The area is managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and is located 8 mi (13 km) northwest of Great Basin National Park, 5 mi (8.0 km) northeast of Majors Place.
The grove was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017 as a traditional cultural property.
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