THE INDIAN HISTORY OF THE MODOC WAR AND THE CAUSES THAT LED TO IT
Author: Riddle, Jeff C.
Title: THE INDIAN HISTORY OF THE MODOC WAR AND THE CAUSES THAT LED TO IT
Publication: SELF-PUBLISHED, 1914
Edition: First Edition
Description: Hardcover. Octavo, 9 in. x 6.5 in., 295 p., Red cloth boards with red title on cover and spine and framed image of Modoc Native American leaning against a tree on cover in black. Frontispiece photo of author and wife, plus 96 black and white illustrations. Rubbing to extremities. Corners exposed, and chips and fraying to top/bottom of spine. Spine slightly shaken. Previous owner's in pencil to front pastedown. Three inch tideline to front free endpapers and frontispiece at top right margin. Rear free endpaper missing. Good Only.
From the preface: "[he author] himself is a Modoc Indian, the son of the chief figure in [the Modoc War], and he was an eye witness to most of the events that he describes.... Here we have the point of view of the Indian, but it is a point of view that is consonant with accuracy and with impartiality. Mr. Riddle's story can speak for itself."
"...A witness to the events of the Modoc War, Riddle learned to read and write when he toured the U.S. in 1876 with Col. Alfred B. Meacham. Riddle later married the daughter of Chief Schonchin and settled on the Klamath Indian Reservation in Oregon..."
SNAC (Social Networks and Archival Contexts).
Seller ID: 86297
Subject: Americana
