May 1

A soldier stationed at Monterey during the Bear Flag Revolt by the name of Benjamin Kooser writes in his diary that Three Fingered Jack ambushed the Americans, guerrilla style, at the battle of Salinas, and that Jack killed the Captain and took his horse and saddle. In 1846, just after the Battle of Salinas, witness say, Juan de Tres Dedos, killed Captain Burroughs and made off with Sacramento, one of finest California Sorrel’s ever owned by a military man. So great an impression it made on Tres Dedos, that just after the battle, when the horse busted the corral and ran off, he hunted the plains west of Stockton for several years vowing to bring it in.