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McNally Robert Aquinas |
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The Modoc War : a story of genocide at the dawn of America's Gilded Age / / Robert Aquinas McNally |
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Lincoln, NB : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2017] |
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©2017 |
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1-4962-0422-0 |
1-4962-0424-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 409 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :) : illustrations, maps, portraits ; |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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