The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America's Gilded Age

by Robert Aquinas McNally

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496201795
• ISBN13: 9781496201799
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.0"