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Daggett was known by many other names as well, including "Shoshone Mike", "Indian Mike", "Rock Creek Mike" and "Salmon River Mike". Daggett fathered 12–13 children and is first recorded in history in 1890 when he and his family were removed from their lands on Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho by settlers who claimed they had purchased the land. Twenty years later, in the spring of 1910, Daggett led his family off the reservation and they traveled to Nevada and California where they worked at various jobs.
Finally, in January 1911, the Daggetts were encamped in Little High Rock Canyon in Washoe County, Nevada.
Their winter stores were running low so Mike decided to steal and slaughter some cattle belonging to a local rancher. The bodies were later found mutilated and piled inside a cave by a search party on February 8, after which a posse of Nevada and California policemen and citizens were sent to apprehend the Daggett party.
The four later attended Stewart Indian School near Carson City, Nevada, but by 1913 only one, Dagget"s baby granddaugther, was still alive. She died in 1993.
