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Author Compton, Jim, 1941-2014, author.

Title Spirit in the rock the fierce battle for Modoc homelands / Jim Compton
Published Pullman, Washington : Washington State University Press, [2017]

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Contents Front Cover -- Copyright Page -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Maps -- Editor's Note -- Author's Preface: The Modoc Story -- Foreword by Vivian Arviso -- Prologue: The Hanging -- Part One: The Screeching of the Owl -- 1 A Harmonious World -- 2 The White World Arrives -- 3 The Applegate Factor -- 4 Dueling Treaties -- 5 Captain Jack Flees -- 6 Jesse Applegate Meets Captain Jack -- 7 Alfred Meacham -- 8 General E.R.S. Canby -- 9 Storm Clouds for Captain Jack -- 10 A Lost River Reservation -- 11 Captain Jack Must Go -- Part Two: A Spirit in the Rock -- 12 Meacham Is Fired
13 A Grave Mistake -- 14 Attack On Lost River Village -- 15 Revenge: Fourteen Settlers Murdered! -- 16 Captain Jack's Stronghold -- 17 Ready for War -- 18 Modoc Victory at the Stronghold -- 19 The Army Licks Its Wounds -- 20 Trouble in the Stronghold -- 21 The Reporters -- 22 The Applegates Meet the Press -- 23 The Peace Commission -- 24 Talking Peace -- 25 A Lethal Decision -- 26 The Fateful Meeting -- 27 Outrage! -- Part Three: A Shooting Star -- 28 Second Attack on the Stronghold -- 29 The Thomas-Wright Battle -- 30 The Battle of Sorass Lake -- 31 The Bloodhounds
32 The Capture of Captain Jack -- 33 Captain Jack Will Be Tried -- 34 The Trial of Captain Jack -- 35 The Execution -- 36 Exile -- 37 The Skull of Captain Jack -- Epilogue: The Aftermath -- Afterword by Boyd Cothran -- Author's Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Photographer -- About the Author -- Visitor's Guide to Modoc Country -- Index -- Back Cover
Summary The 1873 Modoc War was fierce, bloody, and unjust. This riveting narrative captures the conflict's dramatic battles, betrayals, and devastating end. It also delves into underlying causes and secret schemes by the Applegate family and others to seize Modoc ancestral territory along what is now the California-Oregon border
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-307) and index
Subject Modoc War, 1872-1873.
Indians of North America -- Wars -- California
Indians of North America -- Wars -- Oregon
Indians of North America -- Wars
Modoc war
Grenzgebiet
California
Oregon
Oregon
Kalifornien
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017022062
ISBN 9780874223774
0874223776