Lu Boone's Mattson

Shaman's Dream : the Modoc War is a literary non-fiction account of the 1873 standoff between besieged Modoc Indians and the United States Army on the California/Oregon border. The book – a kaleidoscope of 'vested interests' – draws together eye-witness accounts by settlers, military and governmental records, reports, diaries, letters, press releases, telegrams – in a narrative that is a multi-cultural evocation of one of the last of the...