biography
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Milner, Moses Embree
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known as California Joe
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| male
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| lived:
| (1829–76)
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| biography:
| Frontier figure and scout, born near Stanford, Kentucky, USA. He went W in 1849 and served in the Civil War, and became a scout for General George Custer (1868), Colonel Dodge (1875), and the Fifth Cavalry (1876). Known as an ‘invaluable guide and Indian fighter’ while sober, he was killed by a civilian who bore him a grudge. |
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