Wigwam and war-path ,or, The royal chief in chains / by Hon. A.B. Meacham, ex-superintendent of Indian Affairs and chairman of the late Modoc Peace Commission ; illustrated portraits of the author, Gen. Canby, Dr. Thomas, Capt. Jack, Schonchin, Scar-faced Charley, Black Jim, Boston Charley, Tobey and Riddle, and eleven other spirited and life-like engravings, of actual scenes from Modoc Indian life, as witnessed by the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meacham, A. B. (Alfred Benjamin), 1826-1882, author.

Series:

Indigenous Peoples of North America.

Indigenous Peoples of North America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modoc War, 1872-1873.

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

Indians of North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 700 pages) : illustrations, portraits.

Edition:

Second and revised edition.

Place of Publication:

John P. Dale and Company

Contents:

Early reminiscences : Pow-E-Shiek's band

Overland : blood for blood

Indians and miners

Diamond-cut-diamond

Policies on trial : "Oneatta"

Senatorial brains beaten by savage muscle : pleasant way of paying penalties

Phil Sheridan's old home : what a cabin cost

Stopping the survey : why

The aged pair : birthplace of legends

Dangerous place for sinners

The parson Brownlow of the Indian Service

No place like home : squaws in hoops and chignons

"How-lish-wampo," king of the turf : a dead thing crawls

Snake war : fighting the devil with fire

The council with the Snake Indians : O-che-o

Over the falls : first election

Klamath Court : Elopement extraordinary

Omelets and arrows : big steam-boilers

Modoc blood under a flag of truce : seed sown twenty years before a harvest

Blue eyes and black ones : Tobey Riddle

Burying the hatchet : a turning point

U.S. Senators cost blood : fair fight, open field

Mourning emblems and military pomp

Peace or war : one hundred lives voted away by Modoc Indians

Modoc steak for breakfast : gray-eyed man on the warpath

Olive branch and cannon balls : which will win

Captain Jack, a diplomat : shoot me if you dare

Who had been there : who had not

Under a woman's hat : the last appeal

Assassination : :Kau-tux-e" : the death prayer smothered by blood : rescued

Harnessed lightning carnying awful tidings : he makes it : a broken finger won't disfigure a corpse

Horizontal pyrotechnics : the scalp miracle : killed in petticoats : the presentiment

Music don't soothe a savage : fighting the devil with fire a failure : "We'll bury the old man alive

Amen out of time : friendly advice from enemies : betrayed

Last hiding place : hanging-machine untried : Modoc butchers outdone

Taking a safe look at a subdued lion : power behind bayonets : weakness in chains

The execution : the royal chief out of chains

The two gibbets.

Notes:

Reproduction of the original from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.

OCLC:

610573395