Download or read book Remembering the Modoc War written by Boyd Cothran and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Modoc War written by Robert Aquinas McNally and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Modoc War Message from the President of the United States Transmitting Copies of the Correspondence and Papers Relative to the written by United States War Dept and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Indian History of the Modoc War written by Jeff C. Riddle and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jefferson C. Davis Riddle (1863-1941) was the son of Frank Riddle and his Modoc wife, Tobey, both of whom played prominent roles in the Modoc War of 1873. Only ten years old at the time and known by his Modoc name, the young "Charka" experienced the northern California conflict firsthand. After the war his parents, who had supported the Modoc peace faction, renamed their son for the Regular army colonel who helped end the hostilities. Written "to give both sides of the troubles of the Modoc Indians and the whites," The Indian History of the Modoc War vividly recounts this episode of Western history. It remains one of the most important books on the Indian Wars. Book jacket.
Download or read book The Modocs and Their War written by Keith A. Murray and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Modoc War written by United States War Dept and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Modoc War: Message From the President of the United States, Transmitting Copies of the Correspondence and Papers Relative to the War With the Modoc Indians in Southern Oregon and Northern California, During the Years 1872 and 1873 Preliminary correspondence showing causes which led to hostilities, and the circumstances under which military force was employed, together with reports of operations up to the time of the appointment of peace com missioners. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Modoc War 1872 73 written by Erwin N. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Laws of War written by Mark Highberger and published by . This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Stronghold written by Harriett Luger and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paths of three teenage boys--a Modoc Indian, a white settler, and a young soldier--cross during the Modoc Indian War.
Download or read book Hell with the Fire Out written by Arthur Quinn and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 1998-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest book from the critically-acclaimed author of "A New World" and "The Rivals" brings to vivid life a violent and all-too-human chapter in the history of the American West. In 1869, Federal Indian Agent Alfred B. Meacham traveled to northern California to convince a band of Modoc Indians to return to the reservation. A bloody war ensued that lasted until 1873 and paved the way for more famous, but equally bloody, battles at Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee.
Download or read book The Indian History of the Modoc War and the Causes that Led to it written by Jeff C. Davis Riddle and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Devil s Backbone written by Terry C. Johnston and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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...
Download or read book The Modoc War in the Lava Beds written by Mark Berhow and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The six-month war is a classic case study of the cultural conflicts that made up the North American Indian wars. It has the distinction of being the most costly Indian war fought by the United States Army; considering the shortness of the war and the number of Indians involved. It was also the only Indian War in which a general grade officer was killed. It highlighted the deficiencies of the post Civil War Army- a motley crew of badly trained soldiers led by equally poorly trained officers, who fought on battlefields of the Indian's choosing and about which the Army had absolutely no information what so ever. At the end of the war there were over 1000 soldiers hunting down 160 Modocs, of which there was not more than 60 effective fighting men. The Modocs are gone from Lava Beds, but they are not forgotten. The land they fought for was a wild landscape of lava flows, caves and cinder cones. Today the area is preserved as Lava Beds National Monument.
Download or read book Modoc War written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modoc Vengeance written by Daniel Woodhead and published by Daniel Woodhead III. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1873, the Modoc War at Tule Lake and the lava beds in Northern California was big news - international as well as national. Historians have written that were it not for Custer's shocking defeat at the Little Big Horn three years later, the Modoc War would stand out as the most significant Indian war in America's western history. It is an intriguing, spell-binding story of how a small band of renegade Modocs, from their lava bed stronghold, held off over 600 troops for almost four months. Modoc Vengeance is unique from all other books on the Modoc War, in that it is composed of 1873 newspaper reports - from the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Call-Bulletin, New York Herald, New York Times, Yreka Journal and Yreka Union. These reports alone, without interpretive interruption, tell the story of the war. Each of the 244 pages is a day in the life of the Modoc War giving you, the reader, a "you are there" feel for what is happening between Captain Jack's Modocs and the army at the lava beds. Complementing the 244 pages of newspaper reports is an impressive, 86 page array of Modoc War photographs, sketches and maps, historic and current - arguably more than will be found in all other Modoc War books combined. Included are photographs by the famous "father of the motion picture," Eadweard Muybridge, and drawings by the equally famous British reporter/artist, William Simpson, noted for his Crimean War sketches. Modoc Vengeance also features several human interest stories, which bring a grassroots reality to the story being told by the newspaper reports - e.g. little boys across the nation playing Modoc War games and a mother journeying from Philadelphia to Tule Lake to see her dying soldier son. Modoc Vengeance is a great information source on the 1873
Download or read book Modoc War Message from the President of the United States Transmitting Copies of the Correspondence and Papers Relative to the War with the Modoc Indians in Southern Oregon and Northern California During the Years 1872 and 1873 written by United States. War Office and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Indian History of the Modoc War and the Causes that Led to it written by Jeff C. Riddle and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author was the son of a Modoc woman, Winema, and Kentucky-born miner Frank Riddle, both of whom played a large role in negotiations during the Modoc War. This book gives a Native American but still pro-white point of view.
