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

by Robert Aquinas McNally

Commonwealth Club of California Book Award winner, Californiana category

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 emblematic of the United States' conquest of Native America's peoples and lands. Robert Aquinas McNally tells the wrenching story of the Modoc...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496224914
• ISBN13: 9781496224910
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.7" x 8.8"