MODOC WAR

1872–73, series of battles between the Modoc and the U.S. army fought as a result of the attempt to force a group of the Modoc to return to the Klamath Reservation in S Oregon. Beginning in Nov., 1872, U.S. soldiers were engaged in sieges against the Modoc who were encamped in the lava beds near Tule Lake, Calif. The soldiers, after losing battle after battle, increased their forces to 1,000 by Mar., 1873. During peace negotiations Gen E. R. S. Canby and Eleazer Thomas were killed; the soldiers intensified their efforts to subdue the Modoc and finally in late May, 1873, Captain Jack and his much reduced force of 30 warriors were captured. Captain Jack and three other leaders were hanged in October. The Modoc War proved costly to both sides: 87 soldiers were killed and 83 were wounded. Although the Modoc lost only 8 warriors and an unlisted number of women and children in the fighting, they were thereafter divided as a people.

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books on: Modoc War  - 171 results

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Soldiers of Peace: Civil War Pacifism and the Postwar Radical Peace Movement
Book by Thomas F. Curran; Fordham University Press, 2003
Subjects: Christians--United States--Political Activity--History--19th Century, Pacifists--United States--History--19th Century, Peace Movements--United States--History--19th Century, Perfection--Political Aspects--United States--History--19th Century, Perfection--Religious Aspects--Christianity, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Protest Movements, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Religious Aspects, War--Religious Aspects--Christianity--History--19th Century
...s Peace Policy as, in effect, a war policy. See The Indian Frontier of...38. For a good narrative of the Modoc War, see Arthur Quinn, Hell with the Fire Out: A History of the Modoc War (Boston: Faber and Faber, 1997...
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War and American Popular Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia
Book by M. Paul Holsinger; Greenwood Press, 1999
Subjects: Popular Culture--United States--History--Encyclopedias, United States--History, Military--Encyclopedias, War And Society--United States--Encyclopedias
...292 Menendez, Pedro, 1 , 6 Men in War, 350 Menjou, Adolphe, 213 Men of...256 Modine, Matthew, 283 , 386 Modoc War, 168 Moffat, E. S., 117 Mohun...Carleton, 237 "Mother, When the War Is Over," 144 Mount Rushmore South...
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Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, from New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our G - Vol. 1
Book by General Nelson Appleton Miles; University of Nebraska Press, 1992
Subjects: Generals--United States--Biography, Indians Of North America--Wars--1866-1895, Indians Of North America--West (U.S.), Miles, Nelson Appleton--1839-1925, West (U.S.)--Description And Travel, West (U.S.)--History--1860-1890
...Harker -- Fort Leaven worth -- The Modoc War -- Death of General Canby -- General...COMANCHES. The Kiowas and Comanches on the War Path -- Attack on the Supply Train...Outbreak at the Cimarron Agency -- On the War Path -- Troops Ordered Against Them...
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A Guide to the Indian Wars of the West
Book by John D. McDermott; University of Nebraska Press, 1998
Subjects: Battlefields--West (U.S.)--Guidebooks, Historic Sites--West (U.S.)--Guidebooks, Indians Of North America--Wars--West (U.S.)--Guidebooks, West (U.S.)--Guidebooks
...Walla was an important post in the Indian wars of the Northwest. Soldiers from the fort...1858 campaign in eastern Washington, the Modoc War 1872-1873 , the Nez Perce War 1877 , and the Bannock War 1878 . Today many buildings remain from...
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Civil War Firearms: Their Historical Background and Tactical Use and Modern Collecting and Shooting
Book by Joseph G. Bilby; Combined Books, 1996
Subjects: United States--Armed Forces--Firearms--History--19th Century, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Equipment And Supplies
...Wilson for his massive 1865 raid, was not issued during the Civil War, it remained in active service through the early 1870s, as evidenced by these soldiers in the Lava Beds during the Modoc war of 1870. National Archives
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Review: Water War in the Klamath Basin: Macho Law, Combat Biology, and Dirty Politics
Journal article by Victoria Carchidi; Electronic Green Journal, 2011
Review: Water War in the Klamath Basin: Macho...bioregionalism Review: Water War in the Klamath Basin: Macho...and A. Dan Tarlock. Water War in the Klamath Basin: Macho...II veterans; the Klamath and Modoc Indian tribes; the fishing...
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Interning America's Colonial History: The Anthologies and Poetry of Lawson Fusao Inada
Journal article by Ryan Burt; MELUS, Vol. 35, 2010
Subjects: Asian American literature--Criticism and interpretation, Inada, Lawson Fusao--Criticism and interpretation, Inada, Lawson Fusao--Works, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, United States history--Portrayals
...mainstream narratives of the war, whether voiced by leaders...broke from the larger Modoc Band and returned to Tule...the last "frontier" wars of the nineteenth century, the so-called "Modoc War" of 1872-73. (6...against both the larger Modoc communitys acceptance...
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Creating the Ideal Indian: the Case of the Poncas
Journal article by John M. Coward; Journalism History, Vol. 21, 1995
Subjects: History, Native Americans, Newspapers, Ponca Tribe, Public relations, Publicity
...Watson, "The Indian Wars and the Press, 1866...Watson, "The Last Indian War-A Study of Newspaper...News coverage of the Modoc War is detailed in Oliver Knight, Following the Indian Wars (Norman: University...press reaction to the Modoc massacre, see Mardock...
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Playing the Indian Princess? Sarah Winnemucca's Newspaper Career and Performance of American Indian Identities
Journal article by Carolyn Sorisio; Studies in American Indian Literatures, Vol. 23, 2011
Subjects: Books, Etiquette, Native North Americans
...appears in accounts of the Modoc War (1872-73). At the time...hunger" ("The First Piute War"). The paper includes a letter...Northern Paiutes i860 Pyramid Lake War, which she attributed to settlers...educate the public about the past war; implicitly, she deployed...the cause of all the recent wars, and will cause another outbreak...
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Jefferson Davis in Blue: The Life of Sherman's Relentless Warrior
Journal article by Ethan S. Rafuse; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 70, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Jefferson Davis in Blue: the Life of Sherman's Relentless Warrior (Book)--Book reviews
...superb contribution to Civil War literature. In 1860 Davis was...battlefield during the Mexican War and his political connections...discussion of Daviss role in the Civil War in Missouri in 1861, in part...in Alaska territory and in the Modoc War. Hughes and Whitney also...
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Modoc Indian War, 1873: a Battle Staff Ride for Company Leaders
Magazine article by James R. Brann, Gregory T. Day; Infantry, Vol. 86, September 1996
Subjects: Military engagements, Military history, Military training, Native Americans, War
Modoc Indian War, 1873: a Battle Staff Ride for Company...had never heard of a staff ride or the Modoc Indian War. Some of the officers and NCOs felt...key leaders of our company, and the Modoc Indian War staff ride was well worth the effort...
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Traveling the Trails of America's Military Past
Magazine article by Richard K. Kolb, Shannon Hanson; VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine, Vol. 90, August 2003
Subjects: Historic buildings & sites, Historic trails, Memorials & monuments, Military history, Tourist attractions
...fortress) from the 1872-73 Modoc War. The Historic Trail consists...houses museum with pre-Civil War military artifacts. Reconstructed...2201. Site of 1846 Mexican War engagement with Spanish settlers...Infantry Division. Relics from wars of 20th century, emphasizing...River from invasion from Civil War through WWII. Shelled by Japanese...
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Stand in for Danger: the War of the Salvage/rescue Tugs
Magazine article by Owen Gault; Sea Classics, Vol. 35, June 2002
...rising demands of the Allies two-ocean war. Early in 1940 the Navy let contracts...only one of this class later became a war loss - USS MACAW (ASR-11) in 1942...African coastline as the grim residue of war. Before these ports could be made usable...S. Navy. With America fighting two wars on two oceans there was plenty of work...
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Weathermen at Sea in Peace and War
Magazine article by Joseph T. Ponti; Sea Classics, Vol. 41, September 2008
Weathermen at Sea in Peace and War by Joseph T. Ponti Its been over 30-yrs...Roosevelt. In the late 1930s, European war clouds were already casting their long shadows...whole picture changed with the outbreak of war in Europe. The U-boat campaign brought...
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An Uncertain Influence: The Role of the Federal Government in California, 1846-1880
Magazine article by Robert J. Chandler; California History, Winter 2003
Subjects: California--History, Federalism--History
...1865. The 1873 Modoc War is surely misnamed as...led a mere two hundred Modoc men, women, and children...Indian control. The Civil War was fast becoming memory...authority." However, the wars civil rights legacy survived...California, the Civil War, and the Indian Problem...Out: A History of the Modoc War (Winchester, Mass...
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The Execution of Captain Jack
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), August 8, 2010
Subjects: Execution (Punishment), Executions and executioners, Modoc War, 1872-1873
...Little Bighorn, the Modoc War would be the one that...of Captain Jack and the Modoc War is the stuff of legend...forces common to all Indian wars: the encroachment of whites...what happened during the Modoc War of 1872-73 vary greatly...
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The 19th-Century Photographer Who Changed the World with His Horses
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 27, 2003
...writes Ms. Solnit. His pictures of the Modoc War, an Indian uprising in northern California...bringing the country close to a civil war." In St. Louis, she claims...organized to run the city." Civil war and Paris commune, with the widespread...
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MOTION PICTURES; Eadweard Muybridge Was a Colourful Character and a Technical Master -- but What Do His Photo Sequences of Horses Running and Ladies Leaping Contribute to the History of Art? EXHIBITION OF THE WEEK
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 9, 2010
Subjects: Art exhibitions, Art--Exhibitions
...Francisco earthquake of 1868, surveys for the Central Pacific Railway and the Lighthouse Board, and for the War Department he covered the Modoc War, an example of ethnic cleansing to the detriment of aboriginal Indians. In 1873, at the Vienna International...
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Indiana Town's Claims to Fame: Elephants and Electricity
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 19, 2006
Subjects: Elephants, High school students, Proboscidea
...as the inebriated man who saw Modoc pass by the Union Cigar Store...took five days to recapture Modoc. By then, she had lost 800...might hit the big screen. "Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest...inventor, medical doctor and Civil War surgeon. The restored home...
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Obituaries
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), January 21, 2005
...in the Marine Corps during World War II and the Korean War. He attended the University of...Revenue Service. He was a World War II veteran. He previously lived...on the cutters Pontchartrain and Modoc out of the Winchester Bay, Coos...
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encyclopedia articles on: Modoc War  - 5 results

 
 
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Modoc War
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MODOC WAR 1872 73, series of battles between the Modoc and the U.S. army fought as a result of the attempt to force a group of the Modoc to return to the Klamath Reservation in S Oregon. Beginning...
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Modoc
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...California and refused to return to the reservation. The attempt to bring them back brought on the Modoc War (1872 73). After the Modoc War, the Modoc people were divided; some were sent to Oklahoma (where a few remain) and some to the Klamath...
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Captain Jack
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CAPTAIN JACK (d. 1873), subchief of the Modoc and leader of the hostile group in the Modoc War (1872 73). Jack, whose Modoc name was Kintpuashkint pooash, had agreed (1864) to leave his ancestral home...
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National Parks and Monuments
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...engagement that opened the Civil War. See Fort Sumter . Fort Union...Examples of volcanism; scene of Modoc uprising. Little Bighorn Battlefield...2001 73 (30) Site of a World War II internment camp for Japanese...SW Ga. 1970 495 (200) Civil War prison camp and national prisoner...
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Canby, Edward Richard Sprigg
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...73, Union general in the Civil War, b. Kentucky, grad. West Point, 1839. He fought in the Seminole War and in the Mexican War. In the Civil War, Canby commanded...during a peace conference with the Modoc . See biography by M. L. Heyman...


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