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 War of 1872-73, one of the nation.
Bison Books The modoc war: a story of genocide at the dawn of america's gilded age, paperback/robert aquinas mcnally
