The Modoc War : a story of genocide at the dawn of America's Gilded Age /
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.