George Gordon Belt (1828–1869) was a soldier, 49er, businessman, judge, and Confederate sympathizer who organized the Mason Henry Gang in California during the American Civil War.
George Belt had joined Colonel Jonathan D. Stevenson's First Regiment of New York Volunteers[1][2] that were raised as part of the American occupation army in California, during the Mexican–American War.
This tent-store was used mostly for supplying the Indians in that part of the San Joaquin Valley under contract with the federal government.
On one occasion he rode with the posse that caught and hanged the stagecoach robber Tom Bell near Firebaugh's Ferry on October 4, 1856.
A dedicated southern sympathizer, in early 1864 Belt used his ranch on the Merced to organize a group of partisan rangers including John Mason and "Jim Henry" and sent them out to recruit more men and pillage the property of Union men in the countryside.