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The Modoc War - A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America's Gilded Age (Hardcover)
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The Modoc War - A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America's Gilded Age (Hardcover)
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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.
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