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William Cameron McKay
William Cameron McKay (1824–1893) was a scout in the Snake War and Modoc War, a Captain in the U.S. Army, a member of the Warm Springs Scouts, and a physician and surgeon. William Cameron McKay was born at Fort Astoria, Fort George on May 18, 1824, what is now Astoria, Oregon, Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon. He was the son of a famous trapper and guide Thomas McKay (fur trader), Thomas McKay and his wife, Timmee T'lkul Tchinouk, daughter of Tshinouk (Chinookan peoples, Chinook) chief Concomly. He was a grandson of Alexander MacKay (fur trader), Alexander MacKay and the step-grandson of Dr. John McLoughlin. Educated by his step-grandfather, he was sent with his brothers to be educated in the Eastern United States in 1838. At the age of 19 he was licensed to practice medicine. He commanded a group of Warm Springs Indians that served as scouts for the U.S. Army in the Snake War a campaign against the Northern Paiute in 1866–1868. He was appointed on several occasions to serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snake War
Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads (cranial kinesis). To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs about twenty-five times independently via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. These resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, although this rule is not universal (see Amphisbaenia, Dibamid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
