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Table of ContentsEditor's Note
Author's Preface: The Modoc Story
Foreword by Vivian Arviso
Prologue: The Hanging
Part One. The Screeching of the Owl
Chapter 1. A Harmonious World
Chapter 2. The White World Arrives
Chapter 3. The Applegate Factor
Chapter 4. Dueling Treaties
Chapter 5. Captain Jack Flees
Chapter 6. Jesse Applegate Meets Captain Jack
Chapter 7. Alfred Meacham
Chapter 8. General E.R.S. Canby
Chapter 9. Storm Clouds for Captain Jack
Chapter 10. A Lost River Reservation
Chapter 11. Captain Jack Must Go
Part Two. A Spirit In The Rock
Chapter 12. Meacham Is Fired
Chapter 13. A Grave Mistake
Chapter 14. Attack On Lost River Village
Chapter 15. Revenge: Fourteen Settlers Murdered!
Chapter 16. Captain Jack's Stronghold
Chapter 17. Ready For War
Chapter 18. Modoc Victory at the Stronghold
Chapter 19. The Army Licks Its Wounds
Chapter 20. Trouble in the Stronghold
Chapter 21. The Reporters
Chapter 22. The Applegates Meet the Press
Chapter 23. The Peace Commission
Chapter 24. Talking Peace
A Lethal Decision
Chapter 26. The Fateful Meeting
Chapter 27. Outrage!
Part Three. A Shooting Star
Chapter 28. Second Attack on the Stronghold
Chapter 29. The Thomas-Wright Battle
Chapter 30. The Battle of Sorass Lake
Chapter 31. The Bloodhounds
Chapter 32. The Capture of Captain Jack
Chapter 33. Captain Jack Will Be Tried
Chapter 34. The Trial of Captain Jack
Chapter 35. The Execution
Chapter 36. Exile
Chapter 37. The Skull of Captain Jack
Epilogue: The Aftermath
Afterword by Boyd Cothran
Author's Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About the Photographer
Visitor's Guide to Modoc Country
