Hi Folks- another listmember, Mary ( lpmaryj@lpiec.com) would like to share information with you on Captain Dick. I am forwarding this to you, but Mary is the one to thank and request further biographical information from. Mary is a listmember here so please feel free to post requests etc to this list. Enjoy- Carolyn -----Original Message----- From: Carolyn Feroben <Sweetwater@Sierratel.com> To: carolyn <sweetwater@sierratel.com> Date: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 10:29 AM Subject: Fw: Captain Dick > >-----Original Message----- >From: Mary Jefferson <lpmaryj@lpiec.com> >To: Carolyn Feroben <Sweetwater@sierratel.com> >Date: Friday, October 27, 2000 2:07 PM >Subject: Captain Dick > > >Hi Carolyn, Have been gone for awhile, but while catching up on all my >emails I came upon folks wondering about this person. >I have a book, "The Ahwahneechees" A Story of the Yosemite Indians, By John >W. Bingamon. He was the Park Ranger, (Ret.) Fourth Printing, July 1970. >Library of Congress Catalog Card Number A 863794. >I purchased this book (small paper back) at the Yosemite Valley gift shop in >the 1980's. Listed are many Mono people and a short history/genealogy of >each. One such person is a SALLY ANN DICK. It says: (contradicting your >information), Born May 8, 1868 in Yosemite. Her mother was MAY DICK, a full >blooded Yosemite Indian. CHARLIE DICK was her brother. Sally was a >beautiful Indian girl, when she was young she married a rich miner by >thename of Stegeman. He took her to San Francisco, where they lived at the >Palace Hotel. They had a carriage and all the fine clothes she wanted, but >soon she tired of all this life and one night she ran away and retur;ned to >Yosemite, he old home. >Stegeman thought enough of her to follow her and returned to the Valley. >Here he found employment in the Post Office and was in charge of the express >office. >One day Sally Ann rifled the Express Company tll, took the bills and left >the silver, wrapped the ten, twenty and fifty dollar bills around her wrist >and went to the store. She bought many things. ANGELO CAVAGNARO was the >store keeper. He was thoughtful enough to charge her double for everything >and of course turned the money back to Stegeman, her husband. >Sally married JOHNNY BROWN after Stegeman died. She was full of life and >talkative. They lived in the Valley some years. Johnny Brown said, "She >all the time running away, no stay home, no good." He beat her for running >away but to no avail. >Later she went to Coulterville and married JOHNNY CASTAGNETTO, who ran a >fruit and vegetable pack train to supply camps and stores around the County. >They had a daughter named MARJORIE; it was reported she had been seriously >ill, but recovered and is now (?) making her home with her uncle Frank in >Sonora, California. >SALLY ANN related one of her worst experiences. When the US soldiers came >to the Valley about 1906, they set fire to her cabin and all her belongings, >when they destroyed the early Indian Village, which was located on the >Military headquarters site where the Yosemite Lodge now stands. The Indians >fled in the night and took some of them a long time to get back. >SALLY ANN died April 10, 1932 and was buried in the Yosemite Valley >Cemetary. > >Hope this can help somebody. If anybody has any questions about this little >gold mine of a book, let me know. There are many other biographies in it. >Mary > >