"Good Indians were peaceful Indians, according to stories that appeared in the early newspaper accounts of the conflict between native tribes and the early European settlers of San Bernardino County.

Peaceful, in news accounts from the time, often meant dead.

In the first decades of San Bernardino County, relations between the settlers and the native tribes living in the San Bernardino Valley and the San Gorgonio Pass areas were relatively peaceful.

Out on the desert and the north slopes of the San Bernardino Mountains, it was a different story."

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Indians and settlers battled in desert (The Riverside Press-Enterprise 4/1)