On October 3, 1873, the U.S. Army hanged four Modoc headmen at Oregon's Fort Klamath. The condemned had supposedly murdered the only U.S. Army general to die during the Indian wars of the nineteenth c
This history explores the causes, factors, and outcomes of Modoc War, which began in November 1872 when the US Cavalry ambushed the Modoc tribe at their home village on the Lost River. The book det