Spirit in the Rock : The Fierce Battle for Modoc Homelands / / Jim Compton
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| Autore: |
Compton Jim <1941-2014>
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| Titolo: |
Spirit in the Rock : The Fierce Battle for Modoc Homelands / / Jim Compton
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| Pubblicazione: | Pullman, Wash. : , : Washington State University Press, , 2017 |
| ©2017 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (342 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Disciplina: | 979.4004974122 |
| Soggetto topico: | Modoc war |
| Grenzgebiet | |
| Indians of North America - Wars | |
| Indians of North America - Wars - Oregon | |
| Indians of North America - Wars - California | |
| Modoc War, 1872-1873 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Oregon |
| Kalifornien | |
| California | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-307) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Fought amid lava beds, the 1873 Modoc War was fierce, bloody, and unjust. This riveting narrative captures the conflict's dramatic battles, betrayals, and devastating end. It also explores underlying causes and secret schemes to seize Modoc ancestral territory. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Spirit in the Rock |
| ISBN: | 0-87422-377-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910954992203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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