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- 1 2 3 Historic California Posts: Camp Low, California State Military Department, The California Military Museum website, accessed September 26, 2013
- ↑ William N. Abeloe ed., Mildred B. Hoover, Hero. E. Rench, Ethel G. Rench, Historic Spots in California, Third Edition, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1966, p.311
- ↑ South San Juan, April 12th, 6 pm. Lieutenant Lafferty and detachment returned this moment, bringing with them the captured horse of the murderer Mason. The detachment surprised Mason at seven o'clock this morning, at the head of the Great Panoche Valley. The murderer made the most desperate attempt to escape and finally succeeded, but not until his horse was shot and he himself badly wounded in the hips by a shot from the Lieutenant's pistol. The commanding officer, Captain Jimeno, will send another detachment immediately to keep up the hunt until Mason is either killed or captured. (Alta California [San Francisco], April 13, 1865; 1:7)