The Modoc War

The Modoc War
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 566
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ISBN-10 : 9781496204226
ISBN-13 : 1496204220
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis The Modoc War by : Robert Aquinas McNally

On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each other. Their duel triggered a war that capped a decades-long genocidal attack that was emblematic of the United States' conquest of Native America's peoples and lands. Robert Aquinas McNally tells the wrenching story of the Modoc War of 1872-73, one of the nation's costliest campaigns against North American Indigenous peoples, in which the army placed nearly one thousand soldiers in the field against some fifty-five Modoc fighters. Although little known today, the Modoc War dominated national headlines for an entire year. Fought in south-central Oregon and northeastern California, the war settled into a siege in the desolate Lava Beds and climaxed the decades-long effort to dispossess and destroy the Modocs. The war did not end with the last shot fired, however. For the first and only time in U.S. history, Native fighters were tried and hanged for war crimes. The surviving Modocs were packed into cattle cars and shipped from Fort Klamath to the corrupt, disease-ridden Quapaw reservation in Oklahoma, where they found peace even more lethal than war. The Modoc War tells the forgotten story of a violent and bloody Gilded Age campaign at a time when the federal government boasted officially of a "peace policy" toward Indigenous nations. This compelling history illuminates a dark corner in our country's past.

Modoc

Modoc
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 348
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ISBN-10 : 9780061748288
ISBN-13 : 0061748285
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Modoc by : Ralph Helfer

"Once I started this incomparable story, I couldn't put it down, and I cannot get it out of my mind—nor will I ever. The message of what can be accomplished by training through affection and joy will thrill all animal lovers." —Betty White A captivating true story of loyalty, friendship, and high adventure that spans several decades and three continents, Modoc is one of the most remarkable true stories ever told, perfect for fans of The Zookeeper's Wife or Water for Elephants. Raised together in a small German circus town, a boy and an elephant formed a bond that would last their entire lives, and would be tested time and again: through a near-fatal shipwreck in the Indian Ocean, an apprenticeship with the legendary Mahout elephant trainers in the Indian teak forests, and their eventual rise to circus stardom in 1940s New York City. As the African Sun-Times put it, Modoc is "heartwarming. . . probably the greatest love story ever told."

Spirit in the Rock

Spirit in the Rock
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 318
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ISBN-10 : 0874223504
ISBN-13 : 9780874223507
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Spirit in the Rock by : Jim Compton

The 1873 Modoc War was fierce, bloody, and unjust. This riveting narrative captures the dramatic battles, betrayals, and devastating end, delving into underlying causes and schemes to seize ancestral territory. By April 1870, immigrant demands forced the Modoc onto a crowded, distant reservation with their rivals, the Klamath. Led by a charismatic young chief called Captain Jack, they fled to their original Lost River village. The cavalry countered with a surprise attack on November 29, 1872. Survivors escaped to a natural stone citadel--nearby lava beds--and the most expensive Indian conflict in U.S. history began.

Remembering the Modoc War

Remembering the Modoc War
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9781469618616
ISBN-13 : 1469618613
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Remembering the Modoc War by : Boyd Cothran

On October 3, 1873, the U.S. Army hanged four Modoc headmen at Oregon's Fort Klamath. The condemned had supposedly murdered the only U.S. Army general to die during the Indian wars of the nineteenth century. Their much-anticipated execution marked the end of the Modoc War of 1872–73. But as Boyd Cothran demonstrates, the conflict's close marked the beginning of a new struggle over the memory of the war. Examining representations of the Modoc War in the context of rapidly expanding cultural and commercial marketplaces, Cothran shows how settlers created and sold narratives of the conflict that blamed the Modocs. These stories portrayed Indigenous people as the instigators of violence and white Americans as innocent victims. Cothran examines the production and circulation of these narratives, from sensationalized published histories and staged lectures featuring Modoc survivors of the war to commemorations and promotional efforts to sell newly opened Indian lands to settlers. As Cothran argues, these narratives of American innocence justified not only violence against Indians in the settlement of the West but also the broader process of U.S. territorial and imperial expansion.

Devil's Backbone

Devil's Backbone
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Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Total Pages : 450
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ISBN-10 : 9781466849822
ISBN-13 : 1466849827
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Devil's Backbone by : Terry C. Johnston

Devil's Backbone Terry C. Johnston The Modoc Indians and American officials had been flirting with war in the Oregon Territory for some time. When Modoc chief Keintpoos murdered a Civil War hero during negotiations, the U.S. Army launched a deadly offensive against the rebel tribe. Besieged in the natural stronghold of the Lava Beds near Tule Lake, the Modocs waged bloody war for seven long months. Sergeant Seamus Donegan, on the trail of his uncle, Ian O'Rourke, arrived at Tule Lake just as the conflict erupted. Soon Donegan and the brooding O'Rourke found themselves embroiled in what would be the costliest war in frontier history...

The Modocs and Their War

The Modocs and Their War
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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : 0806113316
ISBN-13 : 9780806113319
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis The Modocs and Their War by : Keith A. Murray

Along the shores of Tule Lake in northern California, three small bands of Modoc Indians joined forces in the fall and winter of 1872-73 to hold off more than one thousand U.S. soldiers and settlers trying to dislodge them from their ancient refuge in the lava beds.

The Modoc

The Modoc
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Publisher : Oso Pub
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 1931064091
ISBN-13 : 9781931064095
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis The Modoc by : Jack Bowden

Burnt-Out Fires

Burnt-Out Fires
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Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : 1618090364
ISBN-13 : 9781618090362
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Burnt-Out Fires by : Richard Dillon

Burnt-Out Fires deals with a very dark period of American history, a period that, until recently, had been purposefully forgotten ... a period that hopefully will cause a re-evaluation of the American ideals and dreams. Everyone pointed to the Modocs as "model Indians." Living on the Oregon-California border, they had assimilated the American culture more than any other Indian tribe. They had accepted the white man's way, dressing in cowboy clothes and working as farm hands. The frontier was quiet...until the white culture that the Modocs had adopted asked them to sign an unjust treaty taking away their tribal lands. Not wanting to fight, the Modocs were forced into a corner by trying, in vain, to work out a peaceful settlement. Out of desperation, they fought. Burnt-Out Fires, by Richard Dillon, chronicles the causes and the results of the Modoc War, one of the most tragic and unnecessary campaigns ever fought against American Indians. Dillon, through expert commentary and extensive research, brings to life the hopeless struggle of the Modoc chief, Captain Jack, to retain his high standing within the tribe while countering with peaceful means the force gradually mounting against him in the white world. The author, without moralizing, goes on to enumerate the bruising inefficiencies of the Indian Agencies and the classical unyielding stance adopted by the United States Army concerning Indian affairs. The result of these is understandings, spiced with ambition and the need to make this conflict an "example" to all Indians, led to the tragic Modoc War; the final act was genocide of the Modocs. After reading Burnt-Out Fires, one realizes that, viewing the forces at work at that time, the war was inevitable...anything different was an impossibility.

Captain Jack, Modoc Renegade

Captain Jack, Modoc Renegade
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 302
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89077007185
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Captain Jack, Modoc Renegade by : Doris Palmer Payne

"The struggle between the Modoc Indians and the onward sweep of civilization -- incredibly costly in lives and greenbacks -- was one of the last and most stubborn of all."--Preface.

The Modoc of California and Oregon

The Modoc of California and Oregon
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Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages : 70
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ISBN-10 : 1404226605
ISBN-13 : 9781404226609
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis The Modoc of California and Oregon by :

Describes the culture, government, arts, and religion of the Modoc people of California and Oregon.