He was born in about 1850, the fourth of seven children born to William "Big Bill" and Amanda M. (Henderson) McCutchen of the Donner Party. An elder sister, Harriett Eleanor McCutchen, died near Truckee (now Donner) Lake during the ordeal, and his youngest brother, Edward Johnson McCutchen, was a founder of a predecessor to the law firm now known as Bingham McCutchen LLP.
Transcription of a responsive letter sent to his father detailing the particulars of his death:
Camp McDermitt, Nev, June 19th, 1878.
William McCutchen -- Yours of June 15th at hand. In regard to your son, killed by Indians, all I can say is, that he was killed on the 10th of June while driving the stage between Summit Springs and Sheep Ranch. He saw the Indians about two hundred yards ahead of him, turned the stage around and started to run from them; he ran about two miles and then took one of the leaders and rode him about one mile and a half, when his horse fell and the Indians came up and shot him three times and left him close to the road. We took a party of men out and got his body and took it to Sheep Ranch, and made a rough coffin and buried him as well as circumstances would admit. His clothes and things are at Summit Springs. Don't know what they are. Will send them to you if you want them.
Yours truly, Andy Baker
Transcription of a responsive letter sent to his father detailing the particulars of his death:
Camp McDermitt, Nev, June 19th, 1878.
William McCutchen -- Yours of June 15th at hand. In regard to your son, killed by Indians, all I can say is, that he was killed on the 10th of June while driving the stage between Summit Springs and Sheep Ranch. He saw the Indians about two hundred yards ahead of him, turned the stage around and started to run from them; he ran about two miles and then took one of the leaders and rode him about one mile and a half, when his horse fell and the Indians came up and shot him three times and left him close to the road. We took a party of men out and got his body and took it to Sheep Ranch, and made a rough coffin and buried him as well as circumstances would admit. His clothes and things are at Summit Springs. Don't know what they are. Will send them to you if you want them.
Yours truly, Andy Baker
He was born in about 1850, the fourth of seven children born to William "Big Bill" and Amanda M. (Henderson) McCutchen of the Donner Party. An elder sister, Harriett Eleanor McCutchen, died near Truckee (now Donner) Lake during the ordeal, and his youngest brother, Edward Johnson McCutchen, was a founder of a predecessor to the law firm now known as Bingham McCutchen LLP.
Transcription of a responsive letter sent to his father detailing the particulars of his death:
Camp McDermitt, Nev, June 19th, 1878.
William McCutchen -- Yours of June 15th at hand. In regard to your son, killed by Indians, all I can say is, that he was killed on the 10th of June while driving the stage between Summit Springs and Sheep Ranch. He saw the Indians about two hundred yards ahead of him, turned the stage around and started to run from them; he ran about two miles and then took one of the leaders and rode him about one mile and a half, when his horse fell and the Indians came up and shot him three times and left him close to the road. We took a party of men out and got his body and took it to Sheep Ranch, and made a rough coffin and buried him as well as circumstances would admit. His clothes and things are at Summit Springs. Don't know what they are. Will send them to you if you want them.
Yours truly, Andy Baker
Transcription of a responsive letter sent to his father detailing the particulars of his death:
Camp McDermitt, Nev, June 19th, 1878.
William McCutchen -- Yours of June 15th at hand. In regard to your son, killed by Indians, all I can say is, that he was killed on the 10th of June while driving the stage between Summit Springs and Sheep Ranch. He saw the Indians about two hundred yards ahead of him, turned the stage around and started to run from them; he ran about two miles and then took one of the leaders and rode him about one mile and a half, when his horse fell and the Indians came up and shot him three times and left him close to the road. We took a party of men out and got his body and took it to Sheep Ranch, and made a rough coffin and buried him as well as circumstances would admit. His clothes and things are at Summit Springs. Don't know what they are. Will send them to you if you want them.
Yours truly, Andy Baker
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