The
Paiute War, also known as the
Pyramid Lake War,
Washoe Indian War and the
Pah Ute War, was an
armed conflict between
Northern Paiutes allied with the
Shoshone and the
Bannock against the
United States. It took place in May 1860 in the vicinity of
Pyramid Lake in the
Utah Territory, now within present day
Nevada. The war was preceded by a series of increasingly violent incidents, culminating in two pitched battles in which approximately eighty settlers were killed. The number of Paiutes killed in action is unrecorded. Smaller raids and skirmishes continued until a cease-fire was agreed to in August 1860; there was no treaty.