The Indian History Of The Modoc War, And The Causes That Led To It

JEFF C RIDDLE

Publication: Privately printed, 1914, N P

First edition. 8vo. Signed on the front free fly leaf by Minerva Beardsley nee Minerva Riddle, daughter of Jeff Riddle. Pictorial cloth, 288 pp., many illustrations, maps. An eyewitness account of the Modoc War, told by a Modoc Indian, the son of Wi-ne-ma, the Modoc woman who saved Peace Commissioner Alfred Meacham when Captain Jack and other Modocs killed General E. R. S.Canby and others during peace negotiations. Cowan II, p.532: "Riddle's eye-witness account of this Indian war, together with the reproductions of rare old photographs which illustrate his text, makes his history one of the most important narratives of the Modoc War, especially in so far as it presents the Indian side of the conflict." Much regarding the treachery of the whites in events leading up to this difficult and protracted war. Light wear to the spine ends, lightly soiled at bottom of front and rear cover, else an uncommonly clean, bright, very good copy.