Remembering the Modoc War Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence 1st Edition by Boyd Cothran 9781469618609 1469618605

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ISBN 10: 1469618605

ISBN 13: 9781469618609

Author: Boyd Cothran

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 Boyd Cothran demonstrates, the conflict’s close marked the beginning of a new struggle over the memory of the war. Examining representations of the Modoc War in the context of rapidly expanding cultural and commercial marketplaces, Cothran shows how settlers created and sold narratives of the conflict that blamed the Modocs. These stories portrayed Indigenous people as the instigators of violence and white Americans as innocent victims. Cothran examines the production and circulation of these narratives, from sensationalized published histories and staged lectures featuring Modoc survivors of the war to commemorations and promotional efforts to sell newly opened Indian lands to settlers. As Cothran argues, these narratives of American innocence justified not only violence against Indians in the settlement of the West but also the broader process of U.S. territorial and imperial expansion.

Table of contents:

Part One: Reporting

Chapter One: The Sensational Press

Chapter Two: The Red Judas

Part Two: Performing

Chapter Three: Pocahontas of the Lava Beds

Part Three: Commemorating

Chapter Four: The Angels of Peace and Progress

Chapter Five: Faithful Americans

Chapter Six: Redemptive Landscapes

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