Amos Gilbert Swan was born in Washington County Ohio, in 1847, to Henry and Mary Swan. He had seven brothers and sisters.
The Swan family moved to Washington Co, Iowa in 1857. Amos worked on his father's farm, in Iowa, until he was sixteen years old. At that time he talked his father into letting him join the Union Army. This was in December of 1863. By February 1864, Amos was with Co H, 2nd Regiment, Iowa Volunteers. The Company at that time was at Pulaski, Illinois.
January of 1865 found Amos at the U.S. General Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. Since he had been hospitalized so long, at Amos's request, the Army transferred him closer to home, to the U.S. General Hospital at Keokuk, Iowa. Amos was discharged from the Army on July 12th 1865 at Davenport, Iowa.
Amos Swan first appeared in California, in about 1870, at Bartlett Springs in Lake County. He walked into the camp where Hiram E Ament and family were staying. Amos was in buckskins that were made for him by the Indians he had hunted for. The Indians of that area gathered plants and fished for their food, and in appreciation for meat, they made Amos clothes from the skins. Emma took a liking to him right away. Amos accompanied the Ament family to Susanville and Hayden Hill.
Amos was mining in Hayden Hill prior to when the Ament family was there. Because of severe winters in that part of Lassen County the miners were known to return to the Napa Valley and Lake County areas to spend the winter, before returning to their claims in the spring.
Emma and Amos were married on August 20th, 1874, in Calistoga, Napa County, California. That same year they moved to Butte County.
In 1877 Amos and family owned a butcher shop, stable, and a slaughter house on Main Street in Greenville, Plumas Co.
But Amos must have gotten wanderlust, for in May of 1880, he wrote a letter to his wife Emma, from Arizona. In the letter he stated that he was heavier than ever and as dark as a Mexican from the Arizona sun. He writes from his camp, that was named "Camp Venison" because of the abundance of deer, that he, Amos, and a friend named Hickman were prospecting for gold in an area seventy miles east of Tucson at the foot of the mountains they knew as the Santaretas.(his spelling) As he closed the letter he mentioned that his friend Hickman was going to take up a ranch, as it was good stock country, and he, was going to strike out for unknown parts, give it a good try and if not successful, give it up and return home.
But in August of 1880, Amos was still in Tucson, as he wrote the following letter to Emma;
Dear Emma & Babies & All,
I read your letter dated at Greenville on the fourth of last month. This is the second letter I have read from you. I have written some eight or ten but as you are on the move you do not get them. Oh how I miss you and the little ones. It seems like a year since I bade you ado at the Trubody's. I have just returned from a weeks trip to Mexico and found some very good mines there but it takes too much capital to do anything and it is not safe to invest down there. I would not stay there where I could not hear from you one year for the best mines in Mexico.
Amos made it home and in December of 1880, Amos and his brother-in-law, Albert H Ament bought two hundred-ninety three acres from Joseph and Isaac Hall, situated on North Valley Rd in Indian Valley, Indian Valley Township. They divided the property and this became the Swan Ranch and the Ament Ranch.
The Swan family moved to Washington Co, Iowa in 1857. Amos worked on his father's farm, in Iowa, until he was sixteen years old. At that time he talked his father into letting him join the Union Army. This was in December of 1863. By February 1864, Amos was with Co H, 2nd Regiment, Iowa Volunteers. The Company at that time was at Pulaski, Illinois.
January of 1865 found Amos at the U.S. General Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. Since he had been hospitalized so long, at Amos's request, the Army transferred him closer to home, to the U.S. General Hospital at Keokuk, Iowa. Amos was discharged from the Army on July 12th 1865 at Davenport, Iowa.
Amos Swan first appeared in California, in about 1870, at Bartlett Springs in Lake County. He walked into the camp where Hiram E Ament and family were staying. Amos was in buckskins that were made for him by the Indians he had hunted for. The Indians of that area gathered plants and fished for their food, and in appreciation for meat, they made Amos clothes from the skins. Emma took a liking to him right away. Amos accompanied the Ament family to Susanville and Hayden Hill.
Amos was mining in Hayden Hill prior to when the Ament family was there. Because of severe winters in that part of Lassen County the miners were known to return to the Napa Valley and Lake County areas to spend the winter, before returning to their claims in the spring.
Emma and Amos were married on August 20th, 1874, in Calistoga, Napa County, California. That same year they moved to Butte County.
In 1877 Amos and family owned a butcher shop, stable, and a slaughter house on Main Street in Greenville, Plumas Co.
But Amos must have gotten wanderlust, for in May of 1880, he wrote a letter to his wife Emma, from Arizona. In the letter he stated that he was heavier than ever and as dark as a Mexican from the Arizona sun. He writes from his camp, that was named "Camp Venison" because of the abundance of deer, that he, Amos, and a friend named Hickman were prospecting for gold in an area seventy miles east of Tucson at the foot of the mountains they knew as the Santaretas.(his spelling) As he closed the letter he mentioned that his friend Hickman was going to take up a ranch, as it was good stock country, and he, was going to strike out for unknown parts, give it a good try and if not successful, give it up and return home.
But in August of 1880, Amos was still in Tucson, as he wrote the following letter to Emma;
Dear Emma & Babies & All,
I read your letter dated at Greenville on the fourth of last month. This is the second letter I have read from you. I have written some eight or ten but as you are on the move you do not get them. Oh how I miss you and the little ones. It seems like a year since I bade you ado at the Trubody's. I have just returned from a weeks trip to Mexico and found some very good mines there but it takes too much capital to do anything and it is not safe to invest down there. I would not stay there where I could not hear from you one year for the best mines in Mexico.
Amos made it home and in December of 1880, Amos and his brother-in-law, Albert H Ament bought two hundred-ninety three acres from Joseph and Isaac Hall, situated on North Valley Rd in Indian Valley, Indian Valley Township. They divided the property and this became the Swan Ranch and the Ament Ranch.
Amos Gilbert Swan was born in Washington County Ohio, in 1847, to Henry and Mary Swan. He had seven brothers and sisters.
The Swan family moved to Washington Co, Iowa in 1857. Amos worked on his father's farm, in Iowa, until he was sixteen years old. At that time he talked his father into letting him join the Union Army. This was in December of 1863. By February 1864, Amos was with Co H, 2nd Regiment, Iowa Volunteers. The Company at that time was at Pulaski, Illinois.
January of 1865 found Amos at the U.S. General Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. Since he had been hospitalized so long, at Amos's request, the Army transferred him closer to home, to the U.S. General Hospital at Keokuk, Iowa. Amos was discharged from the Army on July 12th 1865 at Davenport, Iowa.
Amos Swan first appeared in California, in about 1870, at Bartlett Springs in Lake County. He walked into the camp where Hiram E Ament and family were staying. Amos was in buckskins that were made for him by the Indians he had hunted for. The Indians of that area gathered plants and fished for their food, and in appreciation for meat, they made Amos clothes from the skins. Emma took a liking to him right away. Amos accompanied the Ament family to Susanville and Hayden Hill.
Amos was mining in Hayden Hill prior to when the Ament family was there. Because of severe winters in that part of Lassen County the miners were known to return to the Napa Valley and Lake County areas to spend the winter, before returning to their claims in the spring.
Emma and Amos were married on August 20th, 1874, in Calistoga, Napa County, California. That same year they moved to Butte County.
In 1877 Amos and family owned a butcher shop, stable, and a slaughter house on Main Street in Greenville, Plumas Co.
But Amos must have gotten wanderlust, for in May of 1880, he wrote a letter to his wife Emma, from Arizona. In the letter he stated that he was heavier than ever and as dark as a Mexican from the Arizona sun. He writes from his camp, that was named "Camp Venison" because of the abundance of deer, that he, Amos, and a friend named Hickman were prospecting for gold in an area seventy miles east of Tucson at the foot of the mountains they knew as the Santaretas.(his spelling) As he closed the letter he mentioned that his friend Hickman was going to take up a ranch, as it was good stock country, and he, was going to strike out for unknown parts, give it a good try and if not successful, give it up and return home.
But in August of 1880, Amos was still in Tucson, as he wrote the following letter to Emma;
Dear Emma & Babies & All,
I read your letter dated at Greenville on the fourth of last month. This is the second letter I have read from you. I have written some eight or ten but as you are on the move you do not get them. Oh how I miss you and the little ones. It seems like a year since I bade you ado at the Trubody's. I have just returned from a weeks trip to Mexico and found some very good mines there but it takes too much capital to do anything and it is not safe to invest down there. I would not stay there where I could not hear from you one year for the best mines in Mexico.
Amos made it home and in December of 1880, Amos and his brother-in-law, Albert H Ament bought two hundred-ninety three acres from Joseph and Isaac Hall, situated on North Valley Rd in Indian Valley, Indian Valley Township. They divided the property and this became the Swan Ranch and the Ament Ranch.
The Swan family moved to Washington Co, Iowa in 1857. Amos worked on his father's farm, in Iowa, until he was sixteen years old. At that time he talked his father into letting him join the Union Army. This was in December of 1863. By February 1864, Amos was with Co H, 2nd Regiment, Iowa Volunteers. The Company at that time was at Pulaski, Illinois.
January of 1865 found Amos at the U.S. General Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. Since he had been hospitalized so long, at Amos's request, the Army transferred him closer to home, to the U.S. General Hospital at Keokuk, Iowa. Amos was discharged from the Army on July 12th 1865 at Davenport, Iowa.
Amos Swan first appeared in California, in about 1870, at Bartlett Springs in Lake County. He walked into the camp where Hiram E Ament and family were staying. Amos was in buckskins that were made for him by the Indians he had hunted for. The Indians of that area gathered plants and fished for their food, and in appreciation for meat, they made Amos clothes from the skins. Emma took a liking to him right away. Amos accompanied the Ament family to Susanville and Hayden Hill.
Amos was mining in Hayden Hill prior to when the Ament family was there. Because of severe winters in that part of Lassen County the miners were known to return to the Napa Valley and Lake County areas to spend the winter, before returning to their claims in the spring.
Emma and Amos were married on August 20th, 1874, in Calistoga, Napa County, California. That same year they moved to Butte County.
In 1877 Amos and family owned a butcher shop, stable, and a slaughter house on Main Street in Greenville, Plumas Co.
But Amos must have gotten wanderlust, for in May of 1880, he wrote a letter to his wife Emma, from Arizona. In the letter he stated that he was heavier than ever and as dark as a Mexican from the Arizona sun. He writes from his camp, that was named "Camp Venison" because of the abundance of deer, that he, Amos, and a friend named Hickman were prospecting for gold in an area seventy miles east of Tucson at the foot of the mountains they knew as the Santaretas.(his spelling) As he closed the letter he mentioned that his friend Hickman was going to take up a ranch, as it was good stock country, and he, was going to strike out for unknown parts, give it a good try and if not successful, give it up and return home.
But in August of 1880, Amos was still in Tucson, as he wrote the following letter to Emma;
Dear Emma & Babies & All,
I read your letter dated at Greenville on the fourth of last month. This is the second letter I have read from you. I have written some eight or ten but as you are on the move you do not get them. Oh how I miss you and the little ones. It seems like a year since I bade you ado at the Trubody's. I have just returned from a weeks trip to Mexico and found some very good mines there but it takes too much capital to do anything and it is not safe to invest down there. I would not stay there where I could not hear from you one year for the best mines in Mexico.
Amos made it home and in December of 1880, Amos and his brother-in-law, Albert H Ament bought two hundred-ninety three acres from Joseph and Isaac Hall, situated on North Valley Rd in Indian Valley, Indian Valley Township. They divided the property and this became the Swan Ranch and the Ament Ranch.
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