The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America’s Gilded Age
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (993 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1496201795 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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“From the opening scene to the end, The Modoc War unfolds with an unrelenting pace and engaging immediacy. Here is ethnohistory at its best, an accounting of Indian-white relations from multiple perspectives.”—James J. Rawls, author of Indians of California: The Changing Image . One rarely comes across a historical account written with such verve, truly deserving to be called a page-turner
Although little known today, the Modoc War dominated national headlines for an entire year. This compelling history illuminates a dark corner in our country’s past. . For the first and only time in U.S. The war did not end with the last shot fired, however. On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each other. history, Native fighters were tried and hanged for war crimes. 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. 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. The surviving Modocs were pa