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Remembering the Modoc War : Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence /
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 century. Their much-anticipated execution marked the end of the Modoc War of 1872-73. But as Boy...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill, NC :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2014]
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| Édition: | 1st edition. |
| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Prologue: A tour of the lava beds
- Introduction: Marketplaces of remembering
- Reporting
- The sensational press
- The red Judas
- Coda: American innocence in my inbox
- Performing
- Pocahontas of the lava beds
- Coda: A drive through settler colonial history
- Commemorating
- The angels of peace and progress
- Faithful Americans
- Redemptive landscapes
- Coda: An outlaw to all mankind
- Epilogue: Exchanging gifts with the dead.