The Modoc War : a story of genocide at the dawn of America's Gilded Age / Robert Aquinas McNally.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McNally, Robert Aquinas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modoc War, 1872-1873.

Indians of North America--Wars--1866-1895.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Wars.

Indians of North America--Oregon--History--19th century.

Indians of North America--California--History--19th century.

History.

California.

Oregon.

Physical Description:

xiii, 409 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2017]

Contents:

Prologue: Duel at Lost River

Holy lands here and there

Bad to worse

Stone and story

Running the pagans out of the promised land

Death squads, sex slaves, and knights of the frontier

The peace that wasn't, the treaty that was, kind of

The bacon of three hundred hogs

Gray-eyed rancher to the rescue

True fog, real war

Glove and fist

Modoc steak for breakfast

A look inside

First fog of war

Celebration and postmortem

Firing into a continent

Give peace a chance

The news that fits

Heroic reporter dens with lions

Talking for peace, lying for war

The warrior takes command

Squeeze play

A homeland to be named later

Pride and prejudice in the peace tent

Martyrs at midday

The war goes cosmic

Girding for battle

Half-empty victory

Scalps and skulls

Into the volcanic valley of death

Things fall apart

The center cannot hold

Hounds and scouts

Hang 'em high

Varnishing vengeance

Still small voices swell

Strangled necks, severed heads

Exile and showbiz

Requiem

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-396) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: McNally, Robert Aquinas, author. Modoc War

ISBN:

9781496201799

1496201795

OCLC:

983442241