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The only battles that took place there occurred in May 1860, in the Utah territory, which later became part of Nevada (these battles occurred four years before Nevada became a state and joined the Union). The conflict was part of the Paiute War, or the Pyramid Lake War, involving two groups of Indians (as they were then called)-- the Northern Paiutes and the Bannock-- who were allied against the United States. The U.S. wanted to settle that land as part of the country's westward expansion.

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