Across The Fence: The Battle of Hungry Hill

On Oct. 31, 1855, the deadliest battle between the Rogue River Indians and the U.S. Army took place near the Oregon-California trail between Cow Creek and Wolf Creek among the Grave Creek Hills.

The battle had long since been forgotten until recently when eastern newspaper articles resurfaced, eye-witness accounts were discovered and scant military records found. Over the past century and a half, even the location of the battle had been forgotten until professor Mark Tveskov of Southern Oregon University, through extensive research, located the actual battle site in 2012.

In contrast, in that...