Abstract Frazier Augustus Boutelle was an officer in the U.S. Army, fighting in the Civil War, the Indian Wars and working as a recruiter in World War I. Frazier Boutelle, 2nd Lieutenant, First U.S. Cavalry Regiment, fired the first shot of the Modoc War (1872-1873) during the Lost River Battle in November 1872. Collection consist of a box with 5 folders, containing copies of handwritten letters by Frazier Augustus Boutelle, 2nd Lieutenant, First U.S. Cavalry Regiment, dating back to 1869, 1873-1873...

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Don C. (Custer) Fisher was the first Superintendent of the Lava Beds National Monument. The collection contains bound photocopies of letters related to the Modoc War of 1872-1873 and provides the cultural context of the time period between 1865 and 1877.

Abstract Patricia Jane Scruggs Trolinger,1930-2010, was a Tribal historian for the Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma 1978-2003 and wrote the “History of the Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma”. Collection consists of two documents: a chapter, titled "A Glimpse of the Modoc Tragedy", written and copyrighted on March 13, 2002, by Francis S. Landrum. It is accompanied by a short letter addressed by Landrum to Ms. Trolinger. The second document is a copy of a paper written by Ms. Trolinger in 1981 in Miami, Oklahoma. The...

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The collection contains an unbound paper by Gerald R. Gates, Forest Archaeologist, Modoc National Forest. The paper examines the history of the armed conflict between the US Army and the Modocs at the Scorpion Point, California, and the efforts of the Passport in Time volunteers to confirm the site of the conflict.