Robert Aquinas Mcnally

Modoc War (eBook, ePUB)

A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America's Gilded Age

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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...

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bison Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496204226
• Artikelnr.: 49725126

Autorenporträt

mcnally

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Duel at Lost River
Part 1. Holy Lands Here and There
1. Bad to Worse
2. Stone and Story
3. Running the Pagans Out of the Promised Land
4. Death Squads, Sex Slaves, and Knights of the Frontier
5. The Peace That Wasn’t, the Treaty That Was, Kind Of
6. The Bacon of Three Hundred Hogs
7. Gray-Eyed Rancher to the Rescue
Part 2. True Fog, Real War
8. Glove and Fist
9. Modoc Steak for Breakfast
10. A Look Inside
11. First Fog of War
12. Celebration and Postmortem
Part 3. Firing into a Continent
13. Give Peace a Chance
14. The News That Fits
15. Heroic Reporter Dens with Lions
16. Talking for Peace, Lying for War
17. The Warrior Takes Command
18. Squeeze Play
19. A Homeland to Be Named Later
20. Pride and Prejudice in the Peace Tent
21. Martyrs at Midday
22. The War Goes Cosmic
23. Girding for Battle
24. Half-Empty Victory
25. Scalps and Skulls
26. Into the Volcanic Valley of Death
Part 4. Things Fall Apart
27. The Center Cannot Hold
28. Hounds and Scouts
29. Hang ’em High
30. Varnishing Vengeance
31. Still Small Voices Swell
32. Strangled Necks, Severed Heads
33. Exile and Showbiz
34. Requiem
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index